Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With legs slowly turning to jelly , I skied down hard , icy snow , followed by spring snow , then slush . |
| 2 | The new method involves candidates literally wrestling for power in a knockout tournament . |
| 3 | ‘ He was looking at me with his eyes just flickering with fear . |
| 4 | I shouted , my legs still shaking with fright . |
| 5 | There were so many loose ends , so many clients still waiting for attention , and she could not let them down . |
| 6 | What Nicholas saw was a sweet-faced young boy , wet hair plastered across his forehead , eyes wide shining with alarm , face flushed with heat or panic . |
| 7 | Of the trade guilds , the livery companies in the cities undertook to provide all that was customary for the performance of the obsequies of their deceased members , the street processions often reflecting in size and panoply the funerals of the nobility . |
| 8 | The earlier 1pm start to Section 1 matches has virtually ruled out schoolboy cricketers , who are also denied Touche Ross Cup selection with ties now beginning at noon . |
| 9 | He did not attempt the removal of the pyjama jacket , but suddenly stood up and began to pull the red trousers down and get them off ; and it seemed that Patrick , shifting very slightly , assisted the operation , his eyes now moving in awareness of what Marcus was doing . |
| 10 | ‘ But you have n't told me your name ! ’ he protested , the blue eyes now dancing with amusement as he took in her affronted expression . |
| 11 | The governing body of the agency is the board of directors consisting of eleven members , all appointed by parliament , but five of them are appointed pursuant to the recommendation of the following bodies , namely : the organizations dealing with the environment , one by the trade unions , one by the employers ' organization , one by Social Security , and one by the various organizations presently dealing with state assets . |
| 12 | The court declined to adopt what it described as ‘ the geographic fiction ’ that discovery required mere acts of preparation abroad , and found the distinction between parties and non-parties equally lacking in merit as a basis for decision . |
| 13 | ‘ But you 're entitled , Mrs Neumann , ’ Zvi Lipsky insisted , his watery eyes almost overflowing with frustration at finding someone evidently intent on undermining his whole function as Hon. Treasurer of the Board . |
| 14 | But the famous Bongs ! will have a hollow ring for millions of soccer fans anxiously waiting for news of their teams . |
| 15 | Cold , wet , tired shepherds , — trudging round at the dead of night — newborn lambs already suffering from exposure and ewes with wet coats often unable to give borderline lambs that vital warmth which makes all the difference . |
| 16 | Any such attempt will necessarily result in a segmented Community with some countries further progressing towards integration while others become satellite economies . |
| 17 | Every year there was a big noisy carnival with its ghost trains and chairoplanes , and yet matrons with shallow baskets did sociable shopping excursions usually ending with coffee in Marine Road and tut-tutting over the state of the borough . |
| 18 | The decaying submarines , with their crews still living on board , are tied to buoys near the submarine bases at Murmansk and Vladivostok . |
| 19 | The errors possibly arising from voltage variations are however clearly much less than variations arising for other , explained and unexplained reasons and it was decided to abandon this idea . |
| 20 | For they were melting as she stood there , and she seemed to be liquid inside too , her limbs strangely turning to water . |
| 21 | But the increasing size and cost of such undertakings as railways , metallurgical and other expensive activities requiring heavy initial outlays , made this more difficult , especially in countries newly entering upon industrialisation and lacking large accumulations of private investment capital . |
| 22 | Hot flushes are caused by the capillaries suddenly filling with blood to give a sudden rush to the face , neck and shoulders , with extra body heat and perspiration . |
| 23 | We have to visualize this as a very gradual process , the early transitional plants perhaps creeping across mud flats , or partially submerged . |
| 24 | In the most diversified locality examined , in south-east Peru , size has effects on not only diet and prey search but also capture methods , vertical position in the forest , habitat use and locomotory patterns , the larger primates apparently differing in diet as to the percentage of fruit versus leaves for example . |
| 25 | This process of oxidation-reduction is repeated with two further carriers ; the H atoms finally combining with oxygen atoms to form water ( see diagram R. 1 ) . |
| 26 | Around £150 for family holidays , allowing for a few days reasonably riding as part of the package . |
| 27 | For instance , I remember him back at Troon eleven years later going from bunker to bunker at the postage Stamp like a lost man — — at the same time as Gene Sarazen got a hole-in-one there . |
| 28 | As it rose , the motors now screaming in protest , Ace could gradually see more of the opening from which the platform projected . |
| 29 | Orne is certainly not enthusiastic about witnesses hypnotised during the course of police investigations later testifying in court , but he feels that such testimony may be acceptable if the entire proceedings are videotaped , so that verbal and non-verbal cueing can be picked up , the independent hypnotist is ignorant of the details of the case , and the subject 's contacts with all possible sources of information about the case are known . |
| 30 | Many urgent questions constantly arising concerning treatment of various nationals both members of armed forces and others … |