Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , this makes all her high moral stances and her bonny sights of yesteryear come tumbling down like a house of cards . |
| 2 | But it can equally be an ‘ invisible elbow ’ which brings the earth 's precarious ecological balance crashing down like a pile of cans in a supermarket . |
| 3 | Functionally it was an interlocking web of economic and social purpose of great imagination : a masterly bringing together of a number of town planning themes . |
| 4 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
| 5 | The perspective of the poem follows its language , tumbling suddenly into a burst of passion and emotion as the poet struggles to observe the forces that buffet him in the heart of his mind . |
| 6 | This is a formidable task even for a human navigator , but as we have found out in the past few years , the bees ' trigonometric adjustments are perfectly mindless , depending only on a memory of the Sun 's azimuth relative to the bee 's goal on the previous trip ( or day ) and an extrapolation of the Sun 's current rate of azimuth movement . |
| 7 | Again she felt overwhelmed with fatigue , but sly , lecherous images slunk into her mind , like a guilty dog sneaking in after a roll in something bad . |
| 8 | One sequence , filmed in Maidenhead , showed Crawford , dressed up in a fireman 's uniform , peddling furiously on a bike in an attempt to catch up with the engine . |
| 9 | Gurder was lurking suspiciously in a patch of shadow by the door when they came past , arms and legs going like pistons . |
| 10 | Hours on , a patch of green deep in a valley : and the valley opening on to a maze of broken fields . |
| 11 | Artist Janet Margrave has created a window opening on to a scene of flowers , ivy-clad trellis , a rush fringed pool and trees . |
| 12 | Half convinced , she shrugged philosophically and turned to leave the apartment 's square entrance hall in which they were standing , aware of Luke following her into the luxuriously appointed lounge , a long elegant room which ended in sliding glass doors opening on to a balcony with a view she had spent part of the afternoon enjoying , pretty green parkland dotted with ornamental ponds linked by a winding , deeply cut stream that was spanned by the occasional arched stone bridge . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes — bedroom , bathroom , a door opening on to a section of enclosed veranda , and an open veranda beyond that , looking down on to a rather beautiful tropical garden . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One would find oneself driving along in a pall of black poison . |
| 16 | The deep rumbling of the explosions dying down to a hissing of falling dust , everything grew quiet , and the twenty or so survivors collapsed against a low wall to get their breath back . |
| 17 | Only Hugo , once again in me , part of me , driving in like a needle into flesh , will stop this particular distress . |
| 18 | In the coffee bar she and Susan were laughing together at a story in the newspaper . |
| 19 | It follows that a singularity may normally be considered as occurring only at a boundary of space-time . |
| 20 | Obviously it is not to be encouraged when you 're walking along with a bird on your glove , because the first thing that happens is the bird takes off . |
| 21 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 22 | First , the analysis focuses mainly on the textual features of Larkin 's " Talking in Bed " thus only partially highlighting their communicative value in the author-reader interaction and , as a result , re-proposing the formalist idea of foregrounding only with a veneer of novelty . |
| 23 | The sight of these two storming along under a cloud of canvas is enough to stir the blood of most landlubbers . |
| 24 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 25 | Picture Derek , or me , walking backwards across a field towards a perch , hawk on glove , trying desperately with our bodies to block the sight of the perch from the alert hawk 's vision . |
| 26 | He simply wished that he did n't have to contend with the unspoken supposition that the two of them were hiding up there on the Step and banging away like a couple of baboons , which he saw in the eyes of more than one person who wished him good morning when he went into town to pick up his mail . |
| 27 | Alexander Ballantine , 51 , who was found guilty of driving dangerously by a jury after a trial at Dingwall Sheriff Court last month , was also banned from driving for five years . |
| 28 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 29 | She was walking home from a party in the early hours of Sunday morning she 'd stopped to use the toilets in St Giles when she was attacked … |
| 30 | This section covers additional accommodation and travel expenses incurred in reaching the overseas destination or returning home as a result of the failure of public transport services in getting the insured to his departure port or airport by the time stated in the itinerary . |