Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat staring before him , seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers , inexhaustible and prolific to the end of time . |
| 2 | On the west side , Ingleborough is a shadowy giant revealing none of the many wonders that attract its legions of pilgrims ; and to the east , green slopes rise with little incident to dark moors forming a distant skyline . |
| 3 | They do this by adopting something like a structuralist understanding of signification systems , treating them as changing structures of oppositions and differences , where obvious meanings are always shadowed by the meanings they exclude . |
| 4 | At this point , some hawk-eyed philosopher ( hawks have very acute eyes — you could n't make a hawk 's eye by throwing lenses and light-sensitive cells together at random ) will start mumbling something about a circular argument . |
| 5 | And then I wonder if another means of acquiring something of a scientific education might not be found . |
| 6 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 7 | The greengrocer spoke with exaggerated patience as though explaining something to a backward child . |
| 8 | Hereford are staging something of a mini revival this year inching their way out of the gloom at the bottom of division three . |
| 9 | The National Trust is responsible for protecting one in every six miles of coastline in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | My explanations of this foible have become increasingly baroque of late : I find myself announcing everything from a rare eye disease to undying homage to the early Auden . |
| 11 | This is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘ union ’ and is part of the Hindu philosophy of self-discipline which teaches self-control , with the aim of becoming one with the impersonal god force . |
| 12 | If you are a mother-to-be or planning on becoming one in the near future join Harpers & Queen On Location on Wednesday 11 April for our Maternity Workshops at Harrods , Knightsbridge , SW1 . |
| 13 | These workers regarded themselves as temporarily relieving their parents of the burden of supporting them and perhaps contributing something to the overall family budget . |
| 14 | The Guild consists of around 140 writers and winning projects have to be environmentally sound as well as contributing something to the local economy . |
| 15 | But there is always room for more and the Managing Director of the Resource Centre , Sr Anna Doherty would like to hear from any individuals , groups , clubs or organisations interested in organising an event or contributing anything to the general fun of the weekend . |
| 16 | Is this independent , single parent who does n't stand for any of Barry Brant 's messin' anything like the real Hilary ? |
| 17 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 18 | Close to it at a March meeting in 1585 accusations of a theft of some Scottish spurs and counter-accusations of ‘ a pretended matter beforehand ’ began to fly to and fro , until without warning someone on the Scottish side shot and killed Russell . |
| 19 | In Mahal [ 1991 ] Crim LR 632 ( CA ) , it was held that a jury could find that pushing someone through an open window 22 feet from the ground could lead to " the risk of some harm " . |
| 20 | At the time of writing none of the other firms is quoted on the Unlisted Securities Market or the Stock Exchange . |
| 21 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 22 | Every morning we woke to find ourselves surrounded by fresh tracks made by capybaras ( the world 's largest species of rodent , looking something like a giant guinea pig ) ; on our last evening , the boatman killed an alligator as it crawled past our camp-fire to go hunting in the reeds beyond . |
| 23 | As an ex-Catholic , ex-alcoholic , ex-hippie fifty-something from New Orleans , dressed in goth-style black and looking something like an old-fashioned schoolmistress , Anne Rice is not your typical American bestseller author . |
| 24 | They can get so much more out of it if you encourage them to approach it in the way a real production would be approached — as an exercise in communicating something to a specific audience . |
| 25 | Additional facilities include a cocktail bar featuring Dutch specialities & international classics and a cosy French restaurant ‘ Le Bistro ’ serving everything from a quick lunch to a sumptuous haute cuisine dinner . |
| 26 | The work is of a very high standard , with several children who have recently joined the school writing something for the first time . |
| 27 | In one sense , admittedly , it has a disparaging overtone , implying something of a freewheeling character , adrift from his or her institutional or collegial obligations . |
| 28 | She had gone through all the rigmarole of dressing and making up almost on automatic pilot , deriving none of the normal pleasure from the procedure . |
| 29 | He did not , as he said on 9 December 1958 , when as owner of Be Careful he spoke at the Gimcrack dinner , object to bookmakers paying something towards the racing industry 's expenses . |
| 30 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |