Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ I have enjoyed dressing up like a woman , making myself up and talking like them ever since I was in school . ’ |
| 2 | He was the sort of man who , when caught riding up in a lift in Rio 's rather staid and old-fashioned Copacabana Palace Hotel with a lady whose skin was some forty shades darker than Alexander 's own pink and cream , told a desk clerk who remonstrated that ‘ ladies ’ were not allowed in guest bedrooms , ‘ What do you mean by ‘ ladies ’ ? |
| 3 | She was attacked coming home from a dance and nearly killed . ’ |
| 4 | How stupid to have been caught tottering about like an invalid . |
| 5 | Apparently it had been reported hopping about in a car park close to the village . |
| 6 | It was a time when a bare ankle could not be shot stepping out of a robe for the implication would be ‘ nakedness ’ , the consequence ‘ sex ’ and the inevitable result — the destruction of the nation . |
| 7 | In all of this Ho Chi Minh is to be seen bobbing about like a cork on the tides of international communism , sometimes lost from sight for long periods , surviving life in Stalin 's Russia and the manifest uncertainties of the purges and , when war broke out , still remaining as an experienced if not entirely successful figure in the communist world and a distant although still immanent leader of Vietnamese communism . |
| 8 | Later that evening , in a town many miles north of Weatherbury , a small white shape could be seen walking slowly along a path beside a large building . |
| 9 | He is generally featured peering languidly into a pool , however divests the situation of its seriousness by considering his metamorphosis . |
| 10 | A woman with a blond plait was seen getting out of a car with a man near the canal upstream of Sharpness . |
| 11 | There again er there was smoke seen coming out of a bedroom , so we first of all informed base again , that there 's a fire , in a flat , secondly we did was break down the door . |
| 12 | He was seen doing so by a policeman and arrested , but it was held by the Divisional Court that he should not have been convicted , since on those facts ( even accepting that the conduct was insulting ) no breach of the peace was likely . |
| 13 | As the shadows lengthen , the men can be seen standing around with a pint of beer in hand , while mothers keep watchful eyes on the kids and catch up on the latest gossip . |
| 14 | On four other occasions Eubank was to be seen covering up under a hail of blows , but like so much of the 26-year-old from Brighton 's act , it was an illusion . |
| 15 | Where the line of stones breaks , lines of energy could be detected moving off at a tangent . |
| 16 | Survival instinct is absolutely incredible , to see the wounds of a terrier and a fox when they have locked jaw locked and are pulled squealing out of a hole , I think I am deeply concerned about anybody here today that can turn that blind eye because what their terrier men are doing is dog fighting , make no bones about it , they wo n't be interested in laying the scent , they will not be interested in being retrained and helping your fraternity . |
| 17 | Only this time , it was found rolling around in a dustbin . |
| 18 | Secondly , a dear friend of mine has gone wandering off with a person I 'm fairly sure is addicted to a very nasty personality altering drug . |
| 19 | ‘ But Maurin had gone roaring off in a taxi and I 'd had to find the bus stop and so I did n't seriously expect to . |
| 20 | The increased use of personal computers means that files of secret information may be left lying around on a cassette or floppy disc in unlocked offices or at the homes of executives . |
| 21 | Have you ever fancied snuggling up to a snake , lounging with a lizard , or swinging with a monkey ? … |
| 22 | Being late will count against you far less if no one has been kept waiting around as a result . |
| 23 | Obviously there are no simple solutions to a difficult relationship with a demanding parent , but it can often be kept ticking over on a mixture of kindness and firmness and a refusal on your part to come out of your corner for a fight every time she chooses to ring the bell . |
| 24 | In the sudden blaze the emperor was discovered blinking angrily at a tree-stump with which he had collided in the dark . |