Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I knocked at another door , it was opened by a tall , thin man , with long , dirty hair hanging down to his shoulders . |
| 2 | Foremost among his parishioners were Watkin the dung-collector and his wife , a woman built like a battering ram , hard-faced , with iron grey hair hanging down to her shoulders . |
| 3 | ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued . |
| 4 | His wife lay there so limp , so insubstantial , her black hair hanging down like the tail of a whipped animal and one white hand clutching his sleeve as though it were her only hold on life . |
| 5 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 6 | Her heart tumbling about like a circus clown , and suddenly breathless , she said , ‘ I thought you were out . ’ |
| 7 | his great jaw hanging down like an open hatch . |
| 8 | A tawny giant with shoulders and arms like a blacksmith 's , he had lean hips , more freckles than a gull 's egg , a snub nose , sleepy honey-coloured eyes , Bart 's pugnacious jaw and red-gold hair sticking up like a Dandy brush . |
| 9 | She looked grotesque , a little ridiculous , with thin clumps of hair sticking out of her mouth as if she was munching . |
| 10 | He looked down at Tom 's heavy brown ankle boots , his thick navy overcoat and the green corduroy cap with the tufts of white hair sticking out at either side . |
| 11 | The man in white is thin and wiry with flashing black eyes and black hair sticking out from under the cap , wild looking . |
| 12 | He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews . |
| 13 | Two days later a horse-and-cart pulled up in Page Street and an elderly man with a shock of ginger hair sticking out from both sides of his battered trilby stepped down and knocked at Aggie 's front door . |
| 14 | Just a tall , thin , cross man with a loud voice , pale , staring , pop-eyes , and tufts of spiky hair sticking out from each nostril . |
| 15 | ‘ Mornin' , Olga , ’ she shouted as she scuttled towards her , a pair of rollers in the front of her hair sticking out like devil 's horns from under her woollen hat . |
| 16 | The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance . |
| 17 | The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance . |
| 18 | My eyes shut , I could see that napkin fluttering down through the mushroom cloud . |
| 19 | Then , unable to contain the drive and enthusiasm building up inside us , Enrique went alone , leaving me to dither between living the moment or trapping it on film . |
| 20 | The clues consisted of four pictures : Snoopy with cream on his face , Charlie Brown with red paint on his hands , Donald Duck with muddy feet , and Mickey Mouse with a necklace sticking out of his pocket . |
| 21 | Brad disappears to change clothes , and , when he returns , a grey T-shirt hanging out over green satin pyjama bottoms ‘ for maximum comfort ’ , offers me a cup of coffee . |
| 22 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 23 | But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way . |
| 24 | There was a guitar on the table , and a frilled black silk shirt hanging up behind the door . |
| 25 | This structure was only the remains of a bridge , and necessitated a crossing hanging on to one piece of rusty wire while balancing on another single line swinging perilously below . |
| 26 | Mrs Stych had just set down the last of her bags of groceries on the kitchen counter and begun to unpack them , when there was the sound of a heavy truck drawing up outside her house . |
| 27 | Isabel stood as though chained to the floor , her heart galloping out of control like a runaway steed as she tried to make sense of the unholy din . |
| 28 | She stood looking about her ; at his plank bed with the bedclothes neatly pulled over it ; at the old easy chair with the stuffing sticking out of its seat . |
| 29 | Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war . |
| 30 | For two weeks Uli and I have spent every daylight hour gazing up at it , seeing it in its flesh and bone , so to speak , for the first time — yet so utterly familiar and loved . ’ |