Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | They moved on again with the river coursing slowly in the growing light beside them and the birds darting out in front of their horses ' knees . |
| 3 | Almost half of the serviceable BR-owned wagon fleet in 1989 comprised ‘ merry-go-round ’ coal hoppers , with the remainder consisting largely of steel carriers , some vans and opens for general merchandise traffic , and — rather surprisingly and after much argument with the industry — the fleet of china clay carriers built to replace the venerable ‘ clay hoods ’ in 1988 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He said bookings for summer holidays this year were well ahead , with operators competing fiercely on price to capture their share of the market . |
| 6 | There 's now a huge range of companies selling direct , from large , well-run outfits like Dell , Viglen and Elonex , to smaller operations competing solely on price . |
| 7 | The first concerned QCs appearing alone in Court ; the second related to the unnecessary attendance of solicitors on Counsel in some Crown Court cases . |
| 8 | There is a great deal of scalic movement , though it is mostly hidden by notes leaping out of direction and back again . |
| 9 | While the physically gifted and superhumanly green-fingered Daisy Gamble ( Barbra Streisand ) sings ‘ Hurry , It 's Lovely Up Here ’ , the flowers on the roof of her apartment block , mostly tulips grow at an alarming yet beautiful rate , conveying a sense of freedom brimming over with life . |
| 10 | The pension cost assessed on the basis of actuarial advice and charged in the accounts relating only to Scheme 1 was £4 million [ 1991 £2 million ] . |
| 11 | People keep writing letters to the Mercury saying how can we afford to spend time and money debating this , well they can afford the time and the money employing out of work newsreaders to produce videos and writers and photographers to produce their glossy magazines , their glossy leaflets I did n't need the R S P C A or the League to tell me that er , the fox photo , this fox photo was a fake , I mean that 's obvious to anybody I did n't need them to tell me that the video was suspect , that too is obvious . |
| 12 | For a few moments she stood watching him as with quick little movements he fed himself , his sharp eyes darting suspiciously from side to side . |
| 13 | Flashbulbs popped incessantly and Whitlock found himself struggling to focus on the sea of cameras , his eyes darting about in search of anything untoward . |
| 14 | ‘ Ah telt ye that before , ’ he recalled , his boozed eyes gazing emptily from side to side . |
| 15 | Indeed , the various government White Papers that preceded the reorganisation of individual social services gave implicit support to this feeling of vague egalitarianism stemming out of universalism . |
| 16 | Of course you ca n't put the tails hanging down on bar ten can you . |
| 17 | Her body lay at the rest in the chapel downstairs , the light filtering in through lancet windows on her oak coffin and the dark-stained , hand-carved pews . |
| 18 | Sometimes what we 're talking about is people a drunken undergraduate hanging around in college bars |
| 19 | Except for the steady drum of drops , the wind in the trees and the waves slapping angrily at rock , there was silence . |
| 20 | She says that there 's quite a lot of crime in the village , with cars driving through at night , break-in 's , etc . |
| 21 | MAI will now consist of four independent business units operating primarily in North and South America . |
| 22 | In one form of the argument , which is found in Pizzorno , the periphery has a very limited role in residual economic activities , usually in those associated with peasant farming , characterised by small-scale , low-technology , fragmented units operating close to subsistence . |
| 23 | Jones revealed how a half-time dressing down from manager Ian Porterfield transformed Chelsea after David Hirst had struck twice to put Wednesday 2-0 up . |
| 24 | As I entered through an archway into the cobbled farmyard the shelling had increased , most of the shells passing over in support of the attack party going in just along the road . |
| 25 | And for a really considered exposition of it we can turn to Charles Temple 's Native Races and their Rulers ( 1918 ) , a remarkable work which , though it bears the unmistakable stamp of a mind operating obsessively in isolation , pursuing ideas by their internal logic rather than by the rules of external evidence , can yet be assumed to possess a representative character . |
| 26 | For readers looking on in envy but undertaking a sharp intake of breath as they feel as second mortgage coming on , this is far from the case . |
| 27 | Its houses , shop , pub and post office were built on a narrow shelf of rock looking out over Start Bay , and it had a population of more than a hundred people . |
| 28 | There was a short gap between the cars sprinting out from Boundary Hall , he gunned his engine and surged forward . |
| 29 | As Trudgill ( 1974 ) has shown ( see figure 5.2 ) , [ h ] -loss in Norwich is socially stratified , with lower-class speakers tending strongly to loss of [ h ] , despite the fact that surrounding rural dialects tend to preserve [ h ] . |
| 30 | Mafouz , Sheikh , Mahmud , Akhtar , and , at the back , their ears jutting out like radio antennae , the Husayn twins with Khan — or Famine , Pestilence and War , as Mr Malik called them . |