Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mornin' , Olga , ’ she shouted as she scuttled towards her , a pair of rollers in the front of her hair sticking out like devil 's horns from under her woollen hat . |
| 2 | Almost half of the serviceable BR-owned wagon fleet in 1989 comprised ‘ merry-go-round ’ coal hoppers , with the remainder consisting largely of steel carriers , some vans and opens for general merchandise traffic , and — rather surprisingly and after much argument with the industry — the fleet of china clay carriers built to replace the venerable ‘ clay hoods ’ in 1988 . |
| 3 | Isabel stood as though chained to the floor , her heart galloping out of control like a runaway steed as she tried to make sense of the unholy din . |
| 4 | ‘ Reverend Fathers , ’ he said mildly , ‘ as I hear , you intend in any case returning together to Shrewsbury . |
| 5 | Largely because the sport had focused almost entirely on the racing craft used on inland waters , the Firths of Clyde , Forth and Tay , which had been strong centres once , had all but died away : with Royal West boating mainly in Glasgow and the new Dundee University on the Tay near Perth . |
| 6 | While the physically gifted and superhumanly green-fingered Daisy Gamble ( Barbra Streisand ) sings ‘ Hurry , It 's Lovely Up Here ’ , the flowers on the roof of her apartment block , mostly tulips grow at an alarming yet beautiful rate , conveying a sense of freedom brimming over with life . |
| 7 | People keep writing letters to the Mercury saying how can we afford to spend time and money debating this , well they can afford the time and the money employing out of work newsreaders to produce videos and writers and photographers to produce their glossy magazines , their glossy leaflets I did n't need the R S P C A or the League to tell me that er , the fox photo , this fox photo was a fake , I mean that 's obvious to anybody I did n't need them to tell me that the video was suspect , that too is obvious . |
| 8 | Inside , the decor is Early Seventies Porn Film chic : thick carpet , round-the-wall bench sofa , huge melamine coffee table , breakfast bar — everything , in fact , except badly-recorded wah-wah guitar and bearded blokes called Sven walking around in towels . |
| 9 | Next door was a parchment maker , who had one corporal billeted on him , but we also know that 2 soldiers died in his house , and so it 's possible that he actually looked after wounded soldiers , which was , of course happening all over Oxford . |
| 10 | Jose Carreras has had some practice singing out of doors — he sang in the grounds of Castle Howard last year and also in front of a 15,000-strong audience in Bath . |
| 11 | Before they left , they heard the Regent declaring that if Edward Plantagenet sat tight and did not attempt any attack across Tweed , then he might lead the Scots force raiding deep into Northumberland , even as far as Bamborough where Edward 's young Queen was known to be installed . |
| 12 | If I could find the River , I could ford it somehow , thought Fergus , his mind tumbling now with ideas and plans , and with half-forgotten memories . |
| 13 | Most industry observers believe that there is a huge commercial momentum building up in multimedia development . |
| 14 | Indeed , the various government White Papers that preceded the reorganisation of individual social services gave implicit support to this feeling of vague egalitarianism stemming out of universalism . |
| 15 | Her body lay at the rest in the chapel downstairs , the light filtering in through lancet windows on her oak coffin and the dark-stained , hand-carved pews . |
| 16 | In February 1366 du Guesclin took a force consisting mainly of members of the Free Companies into Castile . |
| 17 | Wade John Frankum , 33 , hacked a 15 year-old girl to death with a machete before rampaging through the shopping complex firing randomly at bystanders . |
| 18 | Sometimes what we 're talking about is people a drunken undergraduate hanging around in college bars |
| 19 | One is a wall mural consisting entirely of fishes spiralling towards and outwards about a single pole ( Figure 7 ) . |
| 20 | Limestone applies to any sedimentary rock consisting essentially of carbonates , but chalk is geologically unique , the white , very fine-grained limestone of the Upper Cretaceous period . |
| 21 | Limestone Any sedimentary rock consisting essentially of carbonates . |
| 22 | He looked from one to the other , his bleak glance resting briefly on Sarella 's upturned face , and then he said , ‘ I tell you one thing , Peter ; when you 're down and out and she 's left you for richer pickings do n't come running to me for a hand-out , because it wo n't be forthcoming . |
| 23 | The only clue they have was provided by neighbours who reported seeing a silver or grey car driving away from Greta Avenue after gunshots were heard . |
| 24 | The cost of running PERT varied between 3 per cent and 9 per cent of the project cost , the latter figure applying mainly to projects costing less than $100 000 . |
| 25 | The cost of running PERT varied between 3 per cent and 9 per cent of the project cost , the latter figure applying mainly to projects costing less than $100 000 . |
| 26 | Glendenen probably remembers the match best for having to face a 14-ball opening over from Essex 's former Hampshire paceman Steve Andrew , who currently has a fractured shoulder . |
| 27 | When it came to Glasgow fun Fergus stood alone , but Lord Roberts , that same whose statue and cuddy stand in splendid isolation looking down on Kelvin Park from Park Circus , told the graduation audience in Glasgow University in 1913 that , ‘ Britain stands alone still ’ . |
| 28 | Jones revealed how a half-time dressing down from manager Ian Porterfield transformed Chelsea after David Hirst had struck twice to put Wednesday 2-0 up . |
| 29 | And for a really considered exposition of it we can turn to Charles Temple 's Native Races and their Rulers ( 1918 ) , a remarkable work which , though it bears the unmistakable stamp of a mind operating obsessively in isolation , pursuing ideas by their internal logic rather than by the rules of external evidence , can yet be assumed to possess a representative character . |
| 30 | Its houses , shop , pub and post office were built on a narrow shelf of rock looking out over Start Bay , and it had a population of more than a hundred people . |