Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [adv prt] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But some bankers have an acute awareness of where their loyalties lie and the idea of winding Eurotunnel up and continuing the project with a new management company may have its attractions . |
| 2 | One minute a well-behaved group of us — writers , intellectuals and so forth — were contentedly watching Zelda Plum dancing with the chinchilla on her head while Ken the Australian Horse Player offered odds ( 'Six to four the rat , ’ he used to say , I do not know why , and on this particular evening the rat escaped and tripped up Robin Fox , London 's most distinguished theatrical agent , who fell on top of Wales 's friend , the actress Susan George ) and the next a squad of hooligans were pushing people around and conjuring a piece of pot from Mrs Mouse 's sewing basket . |
| 3 | Again , like back in the days of the civil rights demonstrations , it 's just another attempt at turning events around and shifting the focus from the real issues at hand ’ — Arrested Development 's Aerie Taree , resident on campus at Atlanta University , itself placed under curfew after demonstrations against the Rodney King verdict |
| 4 | During training Catherine had to acquire a few hair-raising skill such as flying upside down and rescuing the aircraft from a stall . |
| 5 | Convinced of his own plainness , Graham is here engaged in taking Jenny out and making a mess of kissing her . |
| 6 | The wind was whipping about them now , billowing cloaks out and ruffling the hair and the fur of the Beastline . |
| 7 | I put one shaking hand out and roll the man over . |
| 8 | And I said no , I simply could n't , banishing the thought that I probably could , quite easily , just by ringing James back and sounding a bit pathetic . |