Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to this time , the early seventies , there was no real precedent for autonomous women 's groups organizing around a woman-only issue . |
| 2 | Only I misheard and thought he said a cow hanging over a chair . |
| 3 | She 's got this cute little duffle coat on and a bobble hat with her hair sticking out the bottom . |
| 4 | Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes . |
| 5 | Yet exactly the same trait , if too high , can disrupt and disable , in some cases bringing about the symptoms of anxiety neurosis . |
| 6 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |
| 7 | There was a dining-room , its vast table formed of two carved stone pillars supporting a smoked-glass top , and there was a bedroom with a display of silver-topped toilet jars , and a fragile lacy négligé hanging on the door . |
| 8 | Suddenly the memory of the négligé hanging on the door in Luke 's house and Elise 's painting in the corridor outside his room struck a chill . |
| 9 | The Norman Towers — Entering through these it is easy to imagine the Knights of the Middle Ages setting off for battle , banners flying and a host of bowmen and falconers bringing up the rear . |
| 10 | This exclusion is designed to focus the Merger Regulation on operations bringing about a lasting change in the structure of the undertakings concerned . |
| 11 | Or a man with her husband 's build parading down a Paris runway in Calvin Klein 's latest skivvies . |
| 12 | ‘ To this end we are pursuing NAMAS accreditation with all due speed and determination and expect to have the certificate hanging on the way by August 1993 . ’ |
| 13 | Harrogate scored all their points in the first half with a try by their Yorkshire scrum half , Guy Easterby , from a blind side scrum move , Steve Baker touching down a try following a tap penalty move . |
| 14 | Branson and McLaren stood side by side on the upper deck , incongruous partners in crime , the contrast almost comical — McLaren in drainpipes , Branson with shoulder-length hair tumbling over a multi-coloured sweater of Hobbit-like cosiness . |
| 15 | While soccer 's purists quake at the thought of Graham Taylor bringing in the long-ball game , Ferguson insists Dublin 's arrival will not mean a switch to Route One football at Old Trafford . |
| 16 | They pause , watching her long walk across the grass , a supplicant walking up the cathedral nave , she has a sense of awe , her hands are cold and damp in spite of the heat . |
| 17 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 18 | I remembered Mr Broadhurst-that-was mopping up the Sally Lunns but that was a mere warm-up exercise compared to this . |
| 19 | She ate dinner alone before a fire made of driftwood that sent salty blue flames leaping up the chimney . |
| 20 | On to the main road , which runs through the island and , apart from the sheep eking out a sparse living on the dead heather , there is little moving until I come to the head of Whalfirth , a long arm of the sea which pushes in from the west until it nearly cuts the island in half . |
| 21 | The Principal of St John 's declared roundly that he was a lunatic — ‘ I saw him yesterday afternoon walking down the Bailey with one foot on the pavement and one foot in the gutter all the way ’ . |
| 22 | Rachaela had , again , the image of a man in a black cloak walking up the house wall . |
| 23 | The following morning we were up at 3.00am , accepted slices of bread and jam and joined the line of headtorches walking up the glacier . |
| 24 | She hurried back down the stairs to find Will mopping up the remains of his soup from the stone-flagged kitchen floor . |
| 25 | From the top drawer of her chest-of-drawers she took a pad and went to fetch her biro from the handbag hanging on the back of the door . |
| 26 | The Keynesian then considers the implications in terms of the income — expenditure model of Chapter 10 , with any increase in investment bringing about a magnified increase in national income through the workings of the multiplier . |
| 27 | Leave a crust of blood hanging on the nails |
| 28 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 29 | George ended up at the Private Eye 30th anniversary ball playing the harmonium and singing Lili Marlene with one of his ever-present Silk Cut hanging out the corner of his mouth , but there was no suggestion he was out of control . |
| 30 | The scene is before me as I write , the garden with its sun-warmed walls , the last of the black cherries hanging on the tree , the sky webbed with long pink clouds . |