Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turns out to be a surprisingly exact science , in which ten or fifteen minutes are spent deliberating over whether someone deserves to be graded ‘ adequate ’ or ‘ limited ’ for their motivation or their ability to organize . |
| 2 | The Committee to Protect Journalists ( CPJ ) has reported that more journalists were killed carrying out their professional duties in 1991 than in any other year since the formation of the committee ten years ago . |
| 3 | Mayor of Middlesbrough Coun Eddie Bolland is pictured handing over cheques totalling more than £8,000 to Tony Griffiths of Middlesbrough Mencap and Moira Flaherty of the Middlesbrough Catholic Handicapped Trust yesterday . |
| 4 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 5 | But a car was seen slowing down at what might have been a pick-up point on the A12 . |
| 6 | It was , of course , by far a situation too good to last and in time , gazing down the glen , a solitary figure was spied struggling up the brae — without a kit-bag — the WAAFs identified their squadron officer ( known as Belladonna ) apparently about to make her first call on her troops in the wild , I was never able at first hand to witness this airmen 's paradise but it is a story that passed the rounds at Kinloss . |
| 7 | The defendants were spotted walking back home by police a short while later . |
| 8 | This was a land where the pursuit of illusion possessed the artists ; where awkward tries at perspective were made , and revellers in scenes of feasting were shown sitting up on one elbow , on daybeds with legs disposed for the first time in recession . |
| 9 | Here and there the head of a child was seen peering over a windowsill . |
| 10 | The mornings of Sunday and Monday were spent setting up the arena , putting in some dance and fight practice , and generally preparing for the show before the pre-show meeting . |
| 11 | His high-fliers were brought crashing back to earth by a 3-0 Tranmere victory , however . |
| 12 | In the early morning planes were heard passing over in the mist and the rain . |
| 13 | A woman with a blond plait was seen getting out of a car with a man near the canal upstream of Sharpness . |
| 14 | The fourth member of the farmhouse group was led blinking out of his bedroom a few seconds later , a thin , scrawny young man with lank hair . |
| 15 | Margaret 's mini was passed soaring up hills , so I changed into low gear and closed the windows so as not to be suffocated by diesel fumes . |
| 16 | Of course , not all punishments were taken lying down . |
| 17 | The figures are left in the orange colour of the clay , the background painted in round them in the shiny black : a purely decorative variation ; and it has been plausibly suggested that the strange ‘ negative ’ idea was inspired by the custom of washing the background of marble reliefs with a blue or red against which the mainly white figures were left standing out . |
| 18 | It 's a long time since Donegal were found wanting in so many key areas . |
| 19 | In that era , so much of the day was spent climbing in and out of the correct clothes that there ca n't have been much time left for recreation . |
| 20 | I mean within a fifty kilometre er outline of the Riyadh city there are police check points and the people are checked going in and out , none of them allowed |
| 21 | Scratched onto black 70mm film stock , the two sisters are shown bumbling around their home , busy tea-making and typing . |
| 22 | Magician , , conjured up £46 on his stall at the Summer Fayre. is pictured handing over the cheque to , chairperson of the Carnoustie Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund , with , operations manager , at . |
| 23 | Ho was kept hanging about at Biarritz . |
| 24 | Anthony — the ‘ h ’ is n't silent , you have to lisp it — from The Chili Peppers was seen hobbling around on crutches today . |
| 25 | Although at the surface there are only flat green fields , underneath a pillar of chalk was found pushing up some 200 feet through the Tertiary , like an igneous intrusion . |
| 26 | On , a strange dog was seen running out through the main gate with aforementioned chicken in his mouth and a packet of Paxo around his neck ! |
| 27 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 28 | A rescue helicopter was scrambled after his empty dinghy was spotted floating out to sea . |
| 29 | ( Direct deliveries sometimes mean that packing materials are left lying about — these must be cleared away Immediately , because they form a hazard to staff and/or customers . ) |
| 30 | Fist fights at the team 's base camp at Dunblane Hydro , a bender in Perth where two players were caught pissing up a close next to the town 's ‘ Shanghai Takeaway ’ , a euphoric send-off at Hampden Park , followed by defeat against Peru , a disgraceful match with Iran , a drug scandal and a piece of eleventh-hour magic which nearly overwhelmed the beaten finalists Holland . |