Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And this heap of fur taking up the warmest spot is Blue . |
| 2 | When , in June 1967 , the Beatles ' ‘ Sergeant Pepper ’ was released , UFO , with its light shows , and globules of colour spewing down the old Irish walls , seemed the natural place to go and listen to it . |
| 3 | With this power and position , there existed a proper distance for her to keep , and on that evening she was to bridge it fatally ; worse , there was a strident note of comedy debasing further the shaming accident … |
| 4 | In the case of Dataease setting up the initial forms is easy , even quite complex forms with many relationships can be set up very quickly . |
| 5 | Compare two recollections : Delicate motes of movement tiptoeing up the curving sabre-slash of Serenity Crack in Yosemite . |
| 6 | ( Thus Auer complains of Gumperz that " sometimes he makes strong claims about the effect of a given type or instance of code switching on the subsequent development of the sequence , which are based on informants ' reports , but fails to reproduce this subsequent passage " ( Auer 1984b : 106 , fn. 10 ) . ) |
| 7 | Somehow at the sight of him all her anger seemed to vanish like the wisps of smoke wreathing up the great chimney near by . |
| 8 | Mind you 're still got , still getting a lot of heat going up the old chimney are n't you ? |