Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a thousand remote little farmhouses and cottages , islanded beneath wind-shriven willows or leaning poplars , the racing floods covered the black fields , overflowed the straight dykes … and leaping upon those lonely homes with all the relentless force of wind and gales , burst open the doors , shattered the ground floor windows … and rushed gurgling and swirling up the narrow staircase . |
| 2 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 3 | Finally , art and design have increasingly been a part of proposals for courses leading to the award of Bachelor of Education degrees and Diplomas in Higher Education , a development which has posed the CNAA with some problems in guiding and assessing both the content and standard of such courses . |
| 4 | No , I know what it is , it 's all our knitting machines sending their radio messages to one another and clogging up the air waves . |
| 5 | Kidnapping the whole cage was impossible and knocking out the Headmaster and all the teachers would be difficult . |
| 6 | He walked all over Lyne picking up blocks of red sandstone ashlar and pointing out the old grooves and cramp-holes . |
| 7 | No more being shy and going up the high one . |
| 8 | She wandered back to the dressing-table and stood fiddling and picking over every little object on it . |
| 9 | Bouncing and bucking down the rough , uneven scrubland of the sloping ground beyond , it finally fetched up hard when it smashed head-on into a rocky outcrop . |
| 10 | She did not even realize her hair had come down and that she had lost her hat until she found herself leaning against a wall somewhere on the other side of St Jude 's Passage , her lungs bursting , her temples and her pulses hammering out their distress , her whole appearance wild and dishevelled and attracting not the least attention in that place which-no matter what might have befallen her — had seen it all before . |
| 11 | ‘ You know , ’ Ash was saying , breathing hard and looking down the stair-well as I opened the door . |
| 12 | Duncan lay still , confused and wondering why the Army had moved in from the south . |
| 13 | Hence ‘ Inspiringly Titled ’ , the live LP recorded at Kilburn National and featuring roughly the same set they toured with in the spring , from the opening ‘ Start ’ to the closing Hüsker Dü cover , ‘ Do n't Want To Know If You 're Lonely ’ . |
| 14 | Theda said , smiling a little and holding out a hand , insensibly warmed by the woman 's greeting . |
| 15 | ‘ The beautiful torment of denial , of postponing the inevitable and building up a sweet need that improves every second of surrender . |
| 16 | I gave in to that later on in the '80s , by trying to be more conventional and blending in a bit more , and actually I should n't have done that . ’ |
| 17 | Luckily , the Devil cares not for checking visitors ' bus passes to see if they 're over-the-hill and struggling down the slope on their Zimmer frames . |
| 18 | So there might be an advantage in working late and coming home a rather roundabout way , she reflected . |
| 19 | Parrott , Merseyside 's sportsman of the year , ran into trouble in only his second visit to the table , cannoning off black and knocking down the red . |
| 20 | Be a devil and stop being so staid and doing only the things you 've planned to do . " |
| 21 | About ½ inch ( 1.5cm ) or a fraction more below the selected bud , make a cut about ⅛ inch ( 0.3cm ) deep and sloping downwards a little as shown in Figure 17 . |
| 22 | She was pretty and crisply dark , her hair short and curling round a pointed face . |
| 23 | Those days she walked slowly , crying already and biting and snuffing back the tears . |
| 24 | Joseph , bare-footed and wearing just a shirt and blanket , had led a charge across the river to rescue the horses . |
| 25 | We swung into a drive , knocking a mesh gate askew and waking up a snoring security guard . |
| 26 | In ex. 2 we have a simple pentatonic idea repeated chromatically , ascending and descending up the fretboard . |
| 27 | And the other one which is er Mr and that er has details of various convictions with er picture of his as a rather younger man er , various offences going back to nineteen seventy five and occupying quite a long space but there . |
| 28 | That circular laid the duty on governors and headteachers of developing and carrying out a plan for the school — a plan which took account of the full range of their responsibilities under the 1988 Act . |
| 29 | The essential point is that a conception of justice fulfils its social role provided that citizens equally conscientious and sharing roughly the same beliefs find that , by affirming the framework of deliberation set up by it , they are normally led to a sufficient convergence of opinion . |
| 30 | Russell , who is again captain of the touring squad , again travelled to New Zealand to play for Mount Maunganui and while the team did not fare too well , the Stirling County professional was pleased with his form , averaging over 40 and taking quite a few wickets . |