Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] on [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a shower ( other than the instantaneous type fitted to the rising main ) is connected to a tap or shower fitting fed from a single pipe leading from the cold water cistern , flushing the WC or turning on another cold water tap can starve the shower of cold water , making it uncomfortably hot . |
| 2 | And flexing on that double flameflicker tongue |
| 3 | They 're all wrapped up in bits of cloth and lying on all this cardboard . |
| 4 | Every so often , wild disordered men , with matted hair and ‘ unseeing red eyes ’ , are glimpsed ‘ tramping along old paths , across gardens , between houses , and through what remained of woodland , like aborigines recognising only an ancestral landscape and insisting on some ancient right of way ’ . |
| 5 | This balance is important , since , for example , some accounts whose critical focus is the rise of the individual , private , property-owning self , almost appear to conspire with that reification of the self which they seek to criticize in contemporary culture , by isolating and concentrating on this single factor . |