Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem in cultivating horseradish is not so much how to make it grow well , as to curb its enthusiasm and stop it taking over the garden . |
| 2 | So far I have described deixis as a closed set of items functioning within certain contexts , and seen it functioning along a cline of possible operations . |
| 3 | He created several gardens on the Continent , including Villa Maryland and Villa Rosemary in the south of France ; but his crowning glory must be at Iford , where he has brought Italy to Wiltshire and set it tumbling down the hanger , in a series of steep paths , steps , and terraces where colonnades , cloisters , fountains and well-heads abound . |
| 4 | She heard Ben come into the market-room , but when the kitchen door did not immediately open , she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape . |
| 5 | He turned quickly and saw it coming up the slope behind him . |
| 6 | Phil disappeared for twenty-four hours and had me ringing up the local police station . |
| 7 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |