Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two black entertainers banging away at a piano . |
| 2 | ‘ There must be ! ’ she wailed , her eyes darting everywhere in a vain hope that there was somewhere she could go . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's probably only one of the local kids sneaking in for a look around , ’ Jessamy tried to reassure herself . |
| 4 | Tolonen stared at him a moment , nodding , his lips pressed tightly together , his earnest grey eyes looking out from a face carved like granite . |
| 5 | Even MTV has jumped on the bandwagon with The Real World , a show that chronicles the lives of seven kids rooming together in a SoHo loft . |
| 6 | Clearly , however , where the overall number of speakers is small as it is in many sociolinguistic surveys , the number of higher-status speakers turning up in a random selection procedure which samples from the entire urban area will be correspondingly small . |
| 7 | She looked down at her new French muslin pyjamas , the corners of her thin lips turning up in a rueful smile , wondering if the whisky stains would come out — and deciding that they probably would n't . |
| 8 | The very wide shoulders narrowing sharply to a slim hip on a longer jacket was the biggest influence on menswear at the time and he took the world by storm . |
| 9 | They went round the corner , and the child stopped in front of a flight of steps leading up to a dilapidated house , one of a number in the street . |
| 10 | Potted shrubs of sombre green flanked a flight of broad , shallow rockfoam steps leading down to a doorway covered by thick curtains of the darkest purple . |
| 11 | They had reached a short flight of stone steps leading down to an open door , and she had no idea of how they had arrived there . |
| 12 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 13 | Erica De'Ath , Teenagers Growing up in a Stepfamily |
| 14 | She received the watch and chain from the pawnbroker 's daughter , together with the new pawn ticket and fivepence , and went off in a pleasured state over the transaction , although a little worried that Queen Mary might find out that her naughty niece wanted to show her legs riding bareback on a circus horse . |
| 15 | Coming is easy , roundabouts and swings , and fucking you is a big dipper with no brakes flying out across a midnight ocean under a chandelier of stars . |
| 16 | I went in the today they like mad animals running round without a head on |
| 17 | The camera swung again , but this time George looked above it , to a monitor screen hung on a metal rafter above the audience , to see his own face in close-up , the eyes staring upward in a way that gave him an absurdly soulful look . |
| 18 | He had a particular reason for regarding the old female golden eagle as special and , like Creggan , he was obsessed by it now , and stood in his pyjamas staring out of an open window on to a cold and moonlit night . |
| 19 | Swell waves running on to a coast break when the forward motion of particles at the wave crest exceeds the forward movement of the wave as a whole , a state of affairs caused by the wave retarding as it runs into shallow water and sometimes over-naively attributed to friction with the sea bottom . |
| 20 | She had n't even noticed her until now , when she stood up , trembling , words coming out in an uncharacteristic torrent . |
| 21 | They then worked slowly through the chronology , all the parties sitting informally round a small table ; so informal , in the mythology , that the subsequent TV docudrama put Meese in a startling pink-and-lavender tracksuit , drinking coffee from a mug . |
| 22 | They watched a fat frog plop into the pond , its skinny back legs paddling frantically under a perfect white lily . |
| 23 | The whole of the study of sort of moving things and statics , things like ladders leaning up against a wall , it 's okay , it 's interesting . |
| 24 | There were the inevitable late-night nutters ringing in after a beer too many , but many of the questions revolved around the evolution of humans . |
| 25 | Jim looked over and smiled as his daughter made rather ungainly attempts to emulate the lively young girls above her , but then as he watched he became slightly concerned , because her movements became even more ungainly and then spasmodic , and then jerky until her head was nodding , her legs shooting out in a frenzy , her arms twitching , and she fell , uttering a loud cry , which was so strong and unreal , that it stilled the noise of the bagpipes and everyone looked to see what was happening . |
| 26 | As she 'd half expected , his face cleared slowly as she spoke , dark eyes lighting up with an almost painful eagerness . |
| 27 | Indeed , the many benefits of schools working together within an LEA should underpin each school 's plans . |
| 28 | He stared moodily at the photograph at the thin face with its moustache and big ears smiling out at an unimaginable future . |
| 29 | By the time we have adequate records , the craft guild can be seen emerging from the lodge of craftsmen working together on a project . |
| 30 | Some of the later pairs ‘ display a great variety and experimentation in the arrangement of motifs drawn from a widespread stock of artistic ideas ’ ( ibid. , p. 36 ) ; it is suggested that this may be the result of craftsmen working together in a workshop . |