Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only I misheard and thought he said a cow hanging over a chair . |
| 2 | Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes . |
| 3 | A few days later we passed the desiccated corpse of another brigand hanging on a gibbet beside the track . |
| 4 | Since then every Q.T. has received in their notes a red paper outlining the Grant Aid meeting also a letter containing a revised timetable in which you were asked to think about specific items . |
| 5 | You get used to that , the wheel moving over a bit . |
| 6 | Some Russians , still fighting , tried to break through , many formations led by a priest holding high a cross ; all were cut down . |
| 7 | They traversed lush apricot orchards without comment ; they ignored a shepherd holding out a bowl of milk ; wordlessly they returned to the village where Miss Fergusson , her calculated civility now restored to her , asked the elder if lodgings could be supplied to them without delay . |
| 8 | The next day he starts at one car coming around a bend a little fast . |
| 9 | This was encouraged by governments and energy agencies , keen for both strategic , economic and political reasons to reduce the heavy dependence on a fuel where the bulk of reserves are concentrated in the Middle East , in the hands of a cartel awaiting only a tightening of supply to raise prices to 1979 levels and possibly above . |
| 10 | the main vertical stroke making up a type character . |
| 11 | She imagined it as a tiny surge welling over a dam and splashing into a parched valley . |
| 12 | An example of such a clause is the following which was found in the Foreign Compensation Act 1950 , a statute setting up a body known as the Foreign Compensation Commission : ‘ The determination by the commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called in question in any court of law . ’ |
| 13 | Sometimes it 's a beggar stretching out a hand for coins whilst the other conceals the knife . |
| 14 | At Halling Manor Works , a horse weighing nearly a ton fell into one of these shutes and would have fallen 40 feet into the river had not the shutter been down . |
| 15 | Using a car weighing over a ton to transport a 12 stone person less than five miles is like using an atomic bomb to kill a canary . |
| 16 | Back at the cottage she found Rodney and Veronica in the kitchen picking over a pile of fungi . |
| 17 | Luke 's eyes stared down into hers , his gaze drawing up a veil of heat in her body until she was suffused by a sensation that blocked out everything but his closeness . |
| 18 | Eventually he managed to turn this into a special trick , with the cat knocking down a coin each time his owner clicked his fingers . |
| 19 | A SEEMS to me as though you may have been overfeeding them with a fertiliser containing quite a lot of nitrogen and perhaps over-watering . |
| 20 | The scene was set in a cabin on the boat with two men lone Fernandell and a beautiful Tahitian girl wearing only a grass skirt . |
| 21 | A B western hero hiding up a gully while the posse rush blindly past was believable . |
| 22 | If the investigation is a sustained piece of work extending over a period of weeks , a diary work file or log book of activities should be maintained . |
| 23 | Now if you continue to rubbish under all that will happen is before long that Surrey County Council putting forward a planning application at Stansted . |
| 24 | My first impression was that you 'd be more at home putting up a brass plate in Harley Street . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Doone is considering it was a child playing out a fantasy , ’ I said . |
| 26 | A little girl carrying either a doll or a child walked back and forth behind the windows . |
| 27 | A judge setting aside a default judgment should give reasons for so doing ( Lennard v International Institute for Medical Science ( 1985 ) The Times , 29 April , CA citing Eagil Trust Co Ltd v Pigott Brown [ 1985 ] 3 All ER 119 , CA . |
| 28 | The police maintained a constant presence in the village setting up a base in the village hall right next door to Mr Eggleton 's house . |
| 29 | Wherever there 's a cop beating up a guy , I 'll be there . |
| 30 | My master read these through carefully like a clerk marking up a ledger . |