Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These shepherds would stop for both rest and prayer using both the chapel and the Black Boy opposite . |
| 2 | She 's got this cute little duffle coat on and a bobble hat with her hair sticking out the bottom . |
| 3 | There was a dining-room , its vast table formed of two carved stone pillars supporting a smoked-glass top , and there was a bedroom with a display of silver-topped toilet jars , and a fragile lacy négligé hanging on the door . |
| 4 | Suddenly the memory of the négligé hanging on the door in Luke 's house and Elise 's painting in the corridor outside his room struck a chill . |
| 5 | ‘ To this end we are pursuing NAMAS accreditation with all due speed and determination and expect to have the certificate hanging on the way by August 1993 . ’ |
| 6 | They pause , watching her long walk across the grass , a supplicant walking up the cathedral nave , she has a sense of awe , her hands are cold and damp in spite of the heat . |
| 7 | The Principal of St John 's declared roundly that he was a lunatic — ‘ I saw him yesterday afternoon walking down the Bailey with one foot on the pavement and one foot in the gutter all the way ’ . |
| 8 | Rachaela had , again , the image of a man in a black cloak walking up the house wall . |
| 9 | John Routly , the Ffestiniog Railway chairman , recently told members of the Ffestiniog Railway Society : ‘ Discussions are taking place between us the Welsh Highland and Gwynedd County Council , the aim being to create a divisional board representing both the FR and WHR to take over responsibility for the Welsh Highland if the Minister of Transport makes the transfer . |
| 10 | From the top drawer of her chest-of-drawers she took a pad and went to fetch her biro from the handbag hanging on the back of the door . |
| 11 | Er , and then the further closure depending where the line is drawn , the further potential closure of an additional home , which is the one that er , Mr made reference to . |
| 12 | George ended up at the Private Eye 30th anniversary ball playing the harmonium and singing Lili Marlene with one of his ever-present Silk Cut hanging out the corner of his mouth , but there was no suggestion he was out of control . |
| 13 | You start , as I said , with the claw weight hanging on the edge of the knitting . |
| 14 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |
| 15 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 16 | From having the best midfield in the league it now seems to have gone distinctly limp — what price now Batty ( nice to see Battyburn keeping up the chase ) . |
| 17 | Jack saw the ambulance tearing down the factory service road , siren screaming , lights blazing . |
| 18 | Patrick heard her little car passing up the avenue . |
| 19 | He had almost given up hope of meeting Liza on the beach and was considering whether he would , after all , call at Four Winds , despite Eleanor 's warnings , when , to his incredulous delight , on the fifth day of his visit , he saw a different figure scrambling down the cliff followed by a little girl . |
| 20 | Carolyn was sitting in the dark looking out the window . |
| 21 | I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal . |
| 22 | There was scaffolding rearing up the face of the house from the front garden and , next to the front door , a large notice saying : |
| 23 | I crawled over the grass and sat with my back against the farmhouse and stared at the blood pouring down the front of my battledress . |
| 24 | I worked it out , from things Barbara Coleman told me , and I hitched a lift in a car going up the valley and walked the last mile or two . |
| 25 | Cross over this bridge and follow the broad trackway on the other side leading up the valley to Scandale Pass ( 3 miles ) . |
| 26 | First , ‘ neutrino ’ can be used as a general term describing both the particle and its antiparticle counterpart , in a general discussion ; secondly , when Wolfgang Pauli coined the name to describe a then hypothetical particle in the 1930s , he used ‘ -neutrino ’ as the name for the decay product . |
| 27 | Tracy , of Derwent Street , Darlington , yesterday recovering from her ordeal , said she was walking by herself to the video shop when she heard the car racing up the alley . |
| 28 | One of the agents observing some fragments of rock clattering down the shaft and falling around him , warned , " take care or you will have your brains knocked out . " |
| 29 | He sees the train as a majestic figure transcending even the world of nature so that , she becomes ‘ wrapt in her music no bird-song , no , nor bough/breaking with honey buds shall ever equal . ’ |
| 30 | The structure and function of the large intestine varies greatly among mammals , with variability concerning mostly the extent of the sacculation and the size of the caecum . |