Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's probably only one of the local kids sneaking in for a look around , ’ Jessamy tried to reassure herself . |
| 2 | Tolonen stared at him a moment , nodding , his lips pressed tightly together , his earnest grey eyes looking out from a face carved like granite . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 8 | Erica De'Ath , Teenagers Growing up in a Stepfamily |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I went in the today they like mad animals running round without a head on |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | With a twinge of conscience it occurred to her that it was not often Omi got out ; a rare trip to the theatre or a concert , Wannsee in summer , or Potsdam , but in the winter she was trapped in the flat , passing long , lonely hours looking on to a street where little happened . |
| 16 | As the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) advised everyone in the Financial Times last week , ’ There is nothing to prevent a group of countries pressing on with a separate Treaty The fact is that we can not , even if we wished , stop the others going ahead . ’ |
| 17 | Seton halted further profitless talk and sent the emissaries hurrying back with a single cannon-shot above their heads . |
| 18 | They can be up to 200ft ( 60m ) in diameter and are mostly constructed of stones , with a rim , and spokes radiating out from a central cairn . |
| 19 | Mice are not clockwork mice running around on a course which is the predictable inevitable consequence of some internal machinery . |
| 20 | They 've seen language labs , which are great , more or less mould away for lack of resources to keep them in working order , and they see micros coming in at a time when everything else is being cut . |
| 21 | There are a lot of enthusiasts coming up with a lot of good ideas but the information never gets out . |
| 22 | You could spot where it had just been by aeroplanes and helicopters taking off in a hurry . |
| 23 | He was high on the flooding wave from the bursting dam of his dark nature , all the anxiety , guilt , hate and repressions sweeping out in a reckless torrent , no longer containable . |
| 24 | In the past Keith , who has spent periods drying out in a clinic , has said his problems were related to overwork , stress and too much drinking . |
| 25 | Minutes do not in any case include discussions leading up to a decision but only the decision itself . |
| 26 | Social implications include a resistance to co-operative activities growing out of a reluctance to surrender one 's freedom of action or to subordinate one 's wishes to the will of others . |
| 27 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 28 | I recently bought a Series IIA ex-military Land Rover with the intention of completely rebuilding it over the next few years ending up with a vehicle that will last for years to come . |
| 29 | The days leading up to a major championship meeting are always very tense , very difficult , and the second World Championship in Rome was no exception . |
| 30 | Her call came after the surrender of the last group of rebels holding out at a military air base at Mactan in the central Philippines . |