Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tucking in at the Cork District Social function held in Clancy 's Bar on Wednesday , 7th April 1993 . |
| 2 | They insisted on the rehabilitation of their relatives and friends , joining the growing numbers gathering daily around the Xidan wall . |
| 3 | Eric 's guitar sounded like two steel rail wagons clanging together in a Chicago freight yard at 4am . |
| 4 | Signing on to the DSD scheme , for instance , puts one more barrier in the way of a foreign firm wanting to sell in Germany . |
| 5 | Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace . |
| 6 | They used to do that : the chief inspector walking down on a Saturday morning in full regalia and one of these fellows would nod and they 'd always walk to the corner , and the Chief would n't say anything about it because they were on the corner and not causing any obstruction . |
| 7 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 8 | Nude sunbathing down on the Waaf site ! ’ and everyone racing down to have a look . |
| 9 | Although Peru in 1990 probably bore little resemblance to the place described circa 1948 in our tomes , we were immediately obsessed with an area sloping down to the Amazon Basin to the east of the Andes . |
| 10 | I feel er something of a stranger walking in on the Maastricht reunion er annual dinner er at the er I have to say that erm I er would n't wish to cross swords with the honourable gentleman on the detail of the Maastricht bill but certainly but certainly I 'ave to say that for many people and maybe even some people on this own side who may be prepared to admit it , the false divide between Euro sceptics and Euro fanatics is one that does n't appeal to the new generations of members and I suspect on both sides of the house , we are in our considered view in Europe and we need to make the best of it and treat Europe on its merits rather than re-live the battles of the er late seventies and early eighties . |
| 11 | — Maxine Barrie , the Shirley Bassey lookalike who came out on top in the Granada TV Stars In Your Eyes programme , is appearing tonight at the Shotton Hall Banqueting Suite , Peterlee in a Valentine 's Night Special . |
| 12 | A report in the International Herald Tribune at the end of August suggested that the Khmers Rouges were keeping away from the UN disarmament process because their forces had grown so small that they would lose influence if the numbers were made public . |
| 13 | Lucy Edwards walking backwards up the Eiffel Tower to get to Africa Picture : EMMA WILLIAMS |
| 14 | He denied UI would be doing this to appease SunSoft and others reportedly unhappy about the situation , and refuted suggestions that SunSoft wants UI 's commitment to use other suppliers and non-USL technologies as a pre-requisite for it signing off on the ABI effort . |
| 15 | With Hitler 's tearing up of the Munich agreement , with the invasion of the rest of Czechoslovakia and the threat to Poland , British public opinion began to distrust Hitler 's word and the nature of nazism changed markedly . |
| 16 | It meant driving up to the London Passport Office a few times and waiting around there for interminable periods , but I hoped that it was going to be worth it . |
| 17 | The row was sparked as the French head of state went on national TV to declare any attempt to delay signing up to the Maastricht Treaty by Mr Major would be ‘ unacceptable ’ . |
| 18 | Last year , before signing up to an IMF deal , Ethiopia 's government sent a team to visit eight African countries and decide for themselves what works . |
| 19 | Then the dome was echoing with the last anthem : she was walking out into the September sunshine on João 's arm ; the crowds were cheering in the streets , gasping at the splendour of her dress and showering her with flowers and petals . |
| 20 | Just 22 months after walking out on the Merseyside club , the 41-year-old Scot received a warm reception from the Kop as he took his place on the Blackburn Rovers bench . |
| 21 | He was walking back from a Didcot Pub , when a gang set upon him as he took a short cut across a railway footbridge . |
| 22 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |
| 23 | To begin with those relating mainly to the Prague School , there seems , first , to be no objective way of determining what limits can be imposed on the description of the text 's structure . |
| 24 | For a moment I thought of driving out to the Jackson house , and beating out of the lawyer whatever information he had . |
| 25 | ‘ The boy we saw driving out in the Mercedes tourer . |
| 26 | The cocked hat brings to mind the hapless Governor of the Falkland Islands , Rex Hunt , driving around in a London taxi until the Argentines came to expel him . |
| 27 | And after dying horribly at a Nottingham University ball , I was confronted by a dandruff-afflicted sound operator in a Marillion T-shirt , who advised me to ‘ cut the left-wing politics , mate . ’ |
| 28 | In Europe we have one major set of structures , from Precambrian to Recent , which relate first to plates splitting and colliding approximately along the Atlantic line and to the later sea-floor spreading that produced that ocean as we see it today . |
| 29 | Angelina 's voice made him jump and he forgot all about Pretty Polly , and all about his chances of sneaking away from the Canterbury trip tomorrow to see the second day of the Kent versus Australia match . |
| 30 | The 51-year-old noticed the youths acting suspiciously in a Middlesbrough pub . |