Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 2 | More handsome than ever in his morning suit , his black hair gleaming with a brilliant sheen , and his eyes , his once dark and brooding eyes , now alight with the glow of love in them , Marc came swiftly to her side . |
| 3 | Paige said quickly , heart thumping at the very idea . |
| 4 | For Hopkins , " an old crony of Wilson 's and a newcomer , a volunteer " sky pilot " who clad himself in semi-clerical , semi-nautical garb consisting of a discreet black habit with a seaman 's jersey and a gold crucifix " , he evidently had nothing but contempt . |
| 5 | Buddie was sitting on a hard chair with one foot resting on an upturned petrol-tin . |
| 6 | We used to have House matches at the Hurlingham track , and I remember one afternoon competing in the 100 , 200 and 400 metres and the three jumps — high , long and triple . |
| 7 | However , just before it died , there was what looked like a length of white cotton thread hanging from the anal vent . |
| 8 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 9 | In its original form the Bill made provision for a single ballot , the decision resting on a simple majority of those voting . |
| 10 | To get onto the glacier you first traverse the top of the mountain , then sideslip into a gully hanging onto a thick rope . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , that 's a squirrel recovering from an air-rifle shot . |
| 12 | For my part I think that there is abundant evidence which would have justified this court in substituting findings that Miss T. was not in a physical or mental condition which enabled her to reach a decision binding on the medical authorities and that even if , contrary to that view , she would otherwise have been in a position to reach such a decision , the influence of her mother was such as to vitiate the decision which she expressed . |
| 13 | Israel will have to trim its army because of a £320-million deficit stemming from the Palestinian uprising , a military source said yesterday in Jerusalem . |
| 14 | Thus on the DEC PDP-8 computer , there is a 3-bit operation code field ; if the operation code is 7 , then the " operate " instruction group is indicated , and a particular function is specified by a sub-operation field consisting of the remaining nine bits ( of the 12-bit word ) . |
| 15 | Sleek , with skin gleaming like a rich satin — |
| 16 | From that experience , he derived an ideal of stage unity stemming from a close collaboration ‘ regardless as far as possible of individual prestige and personality ’ , which was reinforced by working in the Group Theatre of the thirties with Auden , Isherwood , Spender , Britten and others . |
| 17 | But we still have to train people to be able to cook under any conditions — a young soldier can often find himself on his own in the field cooking for a given number of people . |
| 18 | She could see him vaguely now , white shirt gleaming in the pale moonlight . |
| 19 | I was fascinated by the droplets of saliva sticking to the coarse stubby brown hair surrounding his mouth , and he had to repeat his request for my shopping list . |
| 20 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral parliament consisting of a 183-member National Council ( Nationalrat , the lower house ) and a 63-member Federal Council ( Bundesrat , the upper house ) , which together form the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ) . |
| 21 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament consisting of a 28-seat House of Assembly popularly elected every five years , and a 21-seat appointed Senate . |
| 22 | The Kingdom of Thailand ( formerly Siam ) is a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliament consisting of a 261-member Senate appointed by the monarch , currently King Bhumipol Adulyadej , on the recommendation of the Prime Minister , and a 347-member House of Representatives elected for a four-year term by universal adult suffrage . |
| 23 | Legislative power was vested in a bicameral parliament consisting of a 205-member elected House of Representatives and a 60-member National Council , to include 10 members appointed by the King . |
| 24 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament consisting of an appointed Senate and a 17-member House of Assembly which is popularly elected for a five-year term . |
| 25 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament consisting of an appointed Senate and a 17-member House of Assembly which is popularly elected for a five-year term . |
| 26 | The ad shows a crook gazing at the busty , mini-skirted girls and asks : ‘ Who 's giving your bag the eye ? ’ |
| 27 | How stable is a system where the amounts of money whizzing around the foreign exchanges in search of a quick fix are 50 times more than the total needed to finance the whole of world trade ? |
| 28 | For example , an ex gratia payment is not automatically treated as meeting any liability stemming from the basic award . |
| 29 | He had drunk over a bottle and a half already but showed little outward sign of over-consumption , except for his accent curdling into a thicker Scots . |
| 30 | CD 's second novel , written for serialization in Richard Bentley 's monthly magazine , Bentley 's Miscellany , of which CD was the first editor , the first instalment appearing in the second issue of Feb. 1837 . |