Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Saville , chairman of the J Saville Gordon parent group , said there was nothing to prevent the local authorities using their compulsory purchase powers to acquire the site if they so wished . |
| 2 | Some writers feel that there is much more scope for local authorities using their wide powers to charge to enhance their revenue ( Blair , 1991 ) . |
| 3 | She spent hours unpicking her pre-war frocks in order to remake them for her daughter . |
| 4 | Bernard would lie awake for hours waging his nightly battle with carnality , slapping it down , groaning . |
| 5 | Hall uses the Marxist philosopher Althusser and the social psychology of Laclau to argue that politics is not just about individuals and social groups pursuing their immediate material interests ; it is also about how they imagine and identify themselves in relation to the wider social world . |
| 6 | ( Stewart Island is roughly twice the size of the Isle of Wight , but has a population of less than 500 souls ) Much more exciting though , is to rent a Cessna from Invercargill 's Douthland Aero Club , get CFI Chris Thompson to come along as safety pilot , and to show you which of the beaches he recommends as landing grounds , since Southern Air a little jealous of other operators using their own airfield in competition to their service . |
| 7 | Together they negotiate a solution to the problem , the first speaker A asking the second B to repair the term by making it more specific , and the second several times repairing his own explanation to make it clearer ( capitals indicate stress ) : |
| 8 | He pulled away long enough to strip off the rest of his clothes , and she followed , unable to bear losing contact even for a second , dipping her head forwards to taste his skin , her fingers stroking his muscled back . |
| 9 | British custom string manufacturers Newtone will talk to you for hours explaining their new range of Burns strings . |
| 10 | Many of these nests now contained , in the month of June , sitting birds keeping their unhatched eggs warm . |
| 11 | Even in the darkness she caught the sweep of his eyes touching her naked shoulders . |
| 12 | We witness the protagonists drawing their own parallels between their story and Homer , Byron 's ‘ Manfred ’ , Poe and thrillers , but in a way which suggests that the act of narrating is not separated from events . |
| 13 | Simply from examining the bones the experts can tell us that she suffered from childhood illness and spent a lot of her life sitting on her heels using her left hand , perhaps grinding corn . |
| 14 | ‘ I need you , ’ he said softly , his eyes devouring her tense face . |
| 15 | As they lifted him on to a stretcher and then on to the jeep the blanket slipped away from his shoulders revealing his red hair and a very white arm covered in freckles . |
| 16 | It is proposed to link respondents ' addresses to census enumeration districts representing their residential locality . |
| 17 | First , the ‘ working class ’ in Britain may be seen as a subset of the economically defined working class ( i.e. wage and salary earning employees separated from the means of production ) , although it probably also includes sections of the petty bourgeoisie ( in the strict sense of small-scale producers and traders employing their own means of production and labour power ) who regard themselves as ‘ working for a living ’ . |
| 18 | And she lay beside him , her limbs intertwined with his , his furry legs lacing her smooth ones , their matted wetness mingling , and he was murmuring , ‘ My sweet one , my darling , Cati . ’ |
| 19 | Campaign badges and honour markings , yes , those of course , on the greaves protecting their right shanks — in many cases quartered and augmented with extra honours . |
| 20 | Indeed , on most crags you wo n't see anybody else other than walkers escaping their own crowds . |
| 21 | She glanced up defiantly and he was watching her intently , his dark eyes searching her flushed face . |
| 22 | In total , there are thirty sheets in a variety of media , with large portrait heads remaining his predominant theme . |
| 23 | Next up was David Stewart of Charles Wilson Booksellers , a veteran of the school market , who warned that Roy Davey 's suggestion that ‘ it was down to every publisher to be in schools selling their own books ’ would in his view lead to chaos . |
| 24 | The Butcher was another Hector McDarroch ; about six feet two with rugby forward shoulders bulging his white coat . |
| 25 | In the 1979 and 1983 elections there were examples of locally popular candidates holding their marginal seats against the national swing . |
| 26 | It 's between you and me , ’ he said quietly , his eyes holding her startled gaze with a compelling force . |
| 27 | The rest of the gang arrived swearing and moaning , ex-army haversacks hanging over their shoulders containing their precious bait . |
| 28 | Ice-balls anaesthetising their back-end blood-tatters , |
| 29 | The office drivers buying her fierce Singha beer and teaching her to dance the Ramwong , and her library assistants taking her to markets and on river trips , bringing her sticky cakes and jasmine garlands and inviting her to their homes . |
| 30 | Trees and plants do project different subtle atmospheres around them , as Dr Bach discovered when he used come of their flowers to produce remedies containing their subtle vibration . |