Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] some [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most likely of all is that we partially trust one another , and each play some mixed sequence of COOPERATE and DEFECT , ending up with some intermediate sum of money . |
| 2 | And doubtless when unarmed Republicans were set upon by the same force in Derry in 1968 you , Mr. Tully , were at home swotting up on some useless pop facts . |
| 3 | We almost convince ourselves that the music is created not by the orchestra but by the tip of the baton itself , rich sounds oozing out like some exotic genie . |
| 4 | She was so busy with the Maxim , however , that she failed to notice the door opening fully behind her , and Richmann stepping through like some black-cloaked angel of death , his shortened Winchester being raised into position . |
| 5 | That meant no dancing , just hordes of people staying long enough to see and be seen , then passing on to some other entertainment . |
| 6 | Here is a pretty device to decorate a banner withal , and who knows but that the bunting may yet cast its shadow upon the representative body of shellbacks lurching along in some typical procession of industry . |
| 7 | He was just looking round for some quiet corner to put the case when faintly above the noise in the room he heard the doorbell ring . |
| 8 | He was sure that a bishop was not stopped by his bishoping from going on with some scholarly work . |
| 9 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 10 | And then Grainne said , ‘ It feels as if we are going down into some terrible prison , ’ and Raynor said , ‘ Yes , it is a prison . |
| 11 | Sometimes , but not always , the author has supplied a list of plates and where they should appear in the book ; sometimes , but not always , this can be relied upon , since plates apparently missing have an odd habit of turning up in some other spot ; sometimes , but not always , the plates themselves are numbered , which makes life easier . |
| 12 | My , you have done a lot with your life … is n't it funny how one kid growing up in some little town will branch out and really make a name for himself . |
| 13 | In the first place , actual possession is evidence of ownership , and , except in cases where ownership is based on a system of public registration , it is hard to see how any ownership can be proved , otherwise than by going back to some prior possession . |
| 14 | After waiting around for some considerable time to see if there was any chance that Elector Carl Theodor would offer him even a temporary appointment , Mozart was informed that it was not to be . |
| 15 | PASSION AT THE POOLSIDE : Fergie and Johnny enjoy getting down to some serious canoodling as the sun beats mercilessly on the naked pate of the whizzkid from Texas |
| 16 | But when she 's at home , Sue Lawley loves nothing more than getting down to some old-fashioned housework |
| 17 | An early-morning mist hung over Branchester , the cathedral rising up like some ghostly fairy-tale palace while cobwebs glistened on iron railings and moisture dripped from the branches of the lime trees that fringed the roads . |
| 18 | God , we 've only just met and you 're coming on like some rampant nut-eater . |
| 19 | Evening distractions were few , although we did hear Sinead O'Connor blasting out in the early hours in one village , and we spent one evening joining in with some traditional dancing — the original Twist ! |
| 20 | But Marion was staring down into some bleak abyss . |
| 21 | For a moment the two gentlemen stared at him in perplexity , as he shook his head , bubbling over at some private joke , until he caught the puzzlement on both faces . |
| 22 | Pity about Agnes Algar could have gone a long way in the Service but went charging off on some unauthorised stunt in America typically female in the end trying to save the career of some soldier who 'd got himself … |
| 23 | Herrick looked away past him , his eyes staring off into some imaginary distance . |
| 24 | It occurs in a book called The Scots Week-end , published by the Carswells in the late 1930s , and crying out for some other publisher to take it up and put it on the market , where it would be grabbed by many eager Scots . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've been making a fool of yourself , dripping around like some lovesick teenager . |
| 26 | Or running round after some bloody male in an office . ’ |
| 27 | A space hulk wallowed in the spangled spectral abyss , in thrall to the random currents of the warp ; and it was there that Veils of Light had docked , slipping in to some gaping port . |
| 28 | Not some dubious doctor ( all professions have their black sheep ! ) cashing in on some personal theory totally unsupported by scientific evidence . |
| 29 | Its entrepreneurs ranged the globe and with them went the cadre of ( mostly British and Irish ) foremen , skilled workers and elite labour ; sometimes settling down in some foreign country for good , their children becoming the Anglo-Argentines of the next generation , sometimes moving from country to country like the much less numerous oilmen of our days . |
| 30 | For some reason they ignore these hygienic delights and go padding off to some stagnant puddle to lap up the filthy water there . |