Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New American money is watched very closely ; old money flogging off Grand Tour treasures ( the Duke of Beaufort 's cabinet sold for £8.58 million to baby- powder heiress Basia Johnson ) ; even auction-house staff ( how many people are in love with Grey Gowrie ? |
| 2 | But she smiled to herself , as she thought again of the handsome Spaniard with those black eyes full of a sense of fun and adventure , that mane of glossy hair falling over one eye — and his dark brown velvet voice , which had melted her heart a lot more than she admitted to Rosie . |
| 3 | It is like a digestive aid breaking down some foods , such as wheat , into more digestible and more edible forms . |
| 4 | But it was in New Orleans , when the alcoholic fog lifted for a while , that he wrote eleven hundred pages in a four-month period ending in early 1987 . |
| 5 | As it moved it creaked and crackled , an old tree moving over crisp leaves . |
| 6 | somewhat morbidly correct ideas as to competition rendered the idea of the third premium man coming in first had much to do with it . |
| 7 | The tower still stands above the walls of the old Hindu fortress , a tapering cylinder rising up 240 feet in four ever-diminishing storeys like a fully extended telescope placed lens-down on a plateau in the Aravalli hills . |
| 8 | Her head-dress was old-fashioned , two veils of pleated lawn falling down either side of her heart-shaped face and fastened under the chin by a bejewelled gorget . |
| 9 | The palace is famous for three things : the great painted hall taking up two storeys , on the left of the façade , the important and beautiful garden , and its builder , Albrecht Wallenstein , who fascinated the German dramatist Schiller . |
| 10 | I have not seen Redmire myself , only pictures of it ; pictures always taken when the mist is rising , with a low sun providing back light to add to the eerie effect . |
| 11 | Performing at Tokyo 's Club Quatro , Wildski is truly an over-the-top , larger-than-life man who bounded through the Japanese experience picking up enough words and phrases to cobble together an Oriental rap which had the crowd beaming from ear to ear . |
| 12 | They had a good night 's sleep but they had a tremendous job waking up this morning . |
| 13 | But with the Official Custodian sending back these investments , the trustees will have to think of what they should have been thinking about years ago : management of their trust funds . ’ |
| 14 | But any individual market or island may experience somewhat higher or lower demand than average , those with lower than average demand cancelling out those with higher than average demand . |
| 15 | There were a series of confrontations with authorities , like Liverpool , faced with threats of central government taking over direct control of services . |
| 16 | Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made . |
| 17 | F S Civilis , a marine scientist at the UN 's Mediterranean Action Plan based in Athens , thinks it is not so much the oil spillage as the sewage from the coastal cities that is doing the most damage , with consequent algal growth killing off marine organisms . |
| 18 | Naturally this enforcement pattern could be justified by the inspectorate who see their primary function not as a kind of industrial police force , but more of a pastoral mission rounding up wayward factory owners and showing them the light and contentment to be gained from compliance with current standards of safety , health , and welfare required by law . |
| 19 | Having spent some of my limited time pouring over heavy ( in weight ) ‘ how to paint ’ library books , and investing in impulse art book buys , I find articles by I am Simpson , Robin Stemp , Jenny Webb and many others a simple joy for a struggling amateur . |
| 20 | That 's alright Charlotte can you pull your trousers up at the back , they 're a little bit falling down good girl . |
| 21 | Jay sat on the white balcony , shaded from a Mediterranean sun burning off white walls , sparking off a turquoise sea where the bright sails of a skiff were silk balloons shot with dazzle , sparkles of pure light bursting behind the boat as it skimmed the perfect waters . |
| 22 | More often the problem is to limit the list of recipients , for it can be a costly business sending out fragile pottery or expensive jewellery . |
| 23 | He seems to be moving towards dropping plans for a White Paper setting out various proposals , followed at a later stage by legislation . |
| 24 | They 're being sent to a village house which has become the centre of a sophisticated operation ferrying out thousands of parcels to Dubrovnik.Mike Rowbottom reports . |
| 25 | And do n't think I 'm going to watch your tight little arse wiggling out that door . |
| 26 | Rainforests occur in and around the equator and , as such , have constant sunshine beating down all year round , providing temperatures of between 64°F and 86°F . |
| 27 | A white form screaming down moonlit galleries . ) |
| 28 | She wasted little time in starting to eat , her quick brain turning over alternative scenarios as she debated whether to show herself to the Carlisle Flint team , or disappear quietly to her room . |
| 29 | As these letters have had no discernible effect and The Awesome Three boys are still enjoying the odd night tying up white-clad virgins and offering them up to the Devil , the incensed mothers have now taken to writing to the band 's parents . |
| 30 | His new cap and goggles got hung up in the undergrowth ; he pulled , got hung up again , jerked savagely and emerged without them , his long hair falling down tangled and wet to his waist . |