Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It accounts for the curious , rather comical way they have of standing perfectly upright and perfectly still while surveying their surroundings with a quick 240° swivel , like a furry periscope . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the Guild succeeded in imbuing its members with a firm sense of self-worth and purpose . |
| 3 | The matron of Sick Bay , a formidable lady by the name of Mrs de Courcey-Meade , painted my wound ( unwashed ) with gentian violet , and I had to suffer the embarrassment of meeting my colleagues with a tattered and fluorescent leg . |
| 4 | Some insects are able to improve the circulation of air by inflating and deflating their abdomens with a muscular pumping action . |
| 5 | And Francie dowsing himself with porridge and ( now ) meditatively picking his teeth with a used matchstick . |
| 6 | The World Bank presidency has a habit of surrounding its occupants with a warm , well-meaning aura . |
| 7 | ‘ When Peter married me , I was tidy , ’ Anna said , recalling her cardigans with a sudden pang ; those emblems of an imagined and ordered future . |
| 8 | These people construct their own hierarchies of taste , quite often in the hope of intoxicating us or invading our sensibilities with a violent shock of colour . |
| 9 | The account is and has been no more than a conduit , the defendant holding its funds with a Scottish bank in Glasgow . |
| 10 | Joshua , wiping his eyes with a snow-white handkerchief , continued eating and gestured to Denis to help himself . |
| 11 | With our highly flexible course structure based on a semester system , and our attention to providing our students with a high quality learning environment , we are confident that we shall retain our excellent record as a good teaching university . |
| 12 | It could conceivably even damage the electronic information industry by overloading its customers with a glittering array of sophisticated new features that no-one actually wants or needs . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , there was young Willis , ’ said Mrs Frome , who had been quietly rubbing her eyes with a small handkerchief . |
| 14 | Clement 's prose puts him in a higher class than any of his extant pagan contemporaries , and he was able obliquely to refute pagan critics ( such as Celsus , writing 177–80 ) who thought Christians an anti-cultural lot , by decorating his pages with a rich variety of quotations and allusions taken from classical poetry and philosophy . |
| 15 | Florence was now stressing her words with a deep obeisance of her head . |
| 16 | Is he aware that among women serving life sentences in Bullwood Hall women 's prison for murdering their husbands there are several whose lack of command of English meant that they were not aware that there was anywhere that they could run to , that some women who had tried to run away from extreme brutality were dragged back by their families , and that some were terrified of leaving their children with a brutal partner , and that therefore they had to wait until they could do something about it and were driven to commit murder ? |
| 17 | The rival genius of Picasso has proved to the world that our age may be epitomized by works which ( show ) his unfailing sense of visual drama , his protean invention and his power of investing his creations with a hallucinatory poetry . |
| 18 | Disadvantages : You may find yourself doing ‘ unfair swaps ’ ( ie , you 'll look after three children who are still playing wargames at 10pm , while the exchange sit involves watching TV while your baby sleeps peacefully ) ; if the circle is big , you may find you 're leaving your children with a virtual stranger ; you may also find that the circle involves a male babysitter ( see overleaf ) . |
| 19 | I think also that aspersions were cast , as asides , on the true soldierly qualities of Sgt York , and hence on all American soldiers , and a three-way fight broke out among the French-Canadian , American and British , to a background drone of German bombers wending their weary way to or from London , or circling in a desultory fashion prior to dumping their bombs with a dull thud on the surrounding countryside . |
| 20 | The next song was a lively one , and very soon some of the local girls , who were dressed in traditional flounced skirts , began to dance , clicking their fingers and tapping their heels , gyrating around Miguelito , smiling at him and swaying their hips with a natural and easy sexuality . |
| 21 | Nor did she understand the expression that leapt on to the Hare-woman 's face , lighting her eyes with a fierce , proud joy . |
| 22 | The boy shrugged , raising his brows with a mild affectation of surprise that it could be thought to be important ; but the stillness of his face and the steadiness of his eyes on Hotspur went some way towards betraying him . |