Example sentences of "[v-ing] [Wh det] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it forces an end of a tone group on the previous stretch of language , thus presenting what follows as a separate unit of information . |
| 2 | This leaves the Commission wondering what to do with a million tonnes of prime beef — and it is prime beef , because intervention accepts only the very best steer beef . |
| 3 | Over in the corner , by the window , was an elderly man with a white beard , wearing what looked like a cut-down fez . |
| 4 | The only sign of life was a man , wearing what looked like a woollen dressing gown with a hood , riding past on a camel . |
| 5 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |
| 6 | The hindmost attendant was holding what looked like a large loaf of bread , and was using it to hit the minion in front , which was running almost doubled up , its little gloved hands held over its head , where the pursuing scullion was raining blows with the loaf . |
| 7 | He is holding what looks like a square brown leather hat box and a white Chanel carrier bag . |
| 8 | All , though much preoccupied with perception , are silent on the paradox in perceiving which results from a chicken-egg situation , namely , that we can only perceive what we attend to , and we can only attend to what we perceive . |
| 9 | Knowing what to do in a life-threatening emergency is like buying fire insurance — you hope you 'll never need it , and you probably never will . |
| 10 | But there are two other ways in which things could change drastically , making what seemed like a good idea turn very bad indeed . |
| 11 | He was carrying what looked like a huge steel club . |
| 12 | But instead , they turned and mounted the stairs , the one Joan decided was Forest carrying what looked like a large piece of sacking . |
| 13 | Then , if the product appears to be commercially successful , as well as a technological tour de force , suddenly competitors are marketing what amounts to a second generation product . |
| 14 | Then , if the product appears to be commercially successful , as well as a technological tour de force , suddenly competitors are marketing what amounts to a second generation product . |
| 15 | Golfers had reported seeing what looked like a human form wrapped in a brown shroud falling through the sky . |
| 16 | Then one day , Evelyn came in waving what looked like a handsome dark green ring file . |