Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branson and McLaren stood side by side on the upper deck , incongruous partners in crime , the contrast almost comical — McLaren in drainpipes , Branson with shoulder-length hair tumbling over a multi-coloured sweater of Hobbit-like cosiness . |
| 2 | The Keynesian then considers the implications in terms of the income — expenditure model of Chapter 10 , with any increase in investment bringing about a magnified increase in national income through the workings of the multiplier . |
| 3 | Symptoms of anxiety may be controlled with practice using only a mild sensation of pain such as that created by digging your fingernails lightly into the palm of your hands , or pinching your earlobe , or gently biting your tongue or cheek . |
| 4 | Through the side window he could see his grey garments and underwear hanging on a small washing line outside . |
| 5 | … with a practised rippling smoothness like a boat gliding over a quiet dark river . |
| 6 | We hastily put to sea in deteriorating weather conditions , the freshening easterly wind pushing up a lumpy swell for which this area is notorious . |
| 7 | Sometimes in the evenings I would hear myself laughing , and the sound was like wind passing over an empty vessel . |
| 8 | Slowly , creakily , he talked , like a cart pulled by a wise old horse going along a rough road . |
| 9 | Our most controversial cover last year showed a photograph of a red car going around a Swiss hairpin , with the headline ‘ Ford 's new Escort meets its rivals ’ , and then , underlined in red , ‘ … and loses ’ . |
| 10 | A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ . |
| 11 | The lady with the upright hair who Gloria said had a screw loose , clattered into the bedroom holding out a steaming jug on a tray . |
| 12 | Some looked for new political initiatives , particularly from the left : a survey of the ‘ condition of Britain' led Cole and Cole ( 1937 ) to advocate a Popular Front , with a programme embracing both an international policy of democratic defence and economic collaboration . |
| 13 | ‘ They did n't see anything because they were working in their little tent , ’ she went on , ‘ but they did hear someone hurrying past and then a car starting up a little way away . |
| 14 | ‘ Wrong man , ’ Rourke said tersely , his mouth taking on a grim slant . |
| 15 | I found myself frustrated by unanswered questions at every turn : why are the shields of Prince William and Harry blank in the College of Arms 's pedigree book — and why does Mark Phillips 's coat of arms have a horse jumping over a small white-flowered plant ? |
| 16 | Lastly , a scheme for silvipasture involving quite an intricate technology combining livestock-rearing , fodder grasses and fuelwood , needed considerable capital and physical back-up on the part of farmers , the larger operators of whom were successful . |
| 17 | Her eyes lifted from the books before her on the desk to the tall , powerful figure standing just a few feet away . |
| 18 | The convent garden harboured herbs and a yellow flowering vine flourishing over a falling wooden structure . |
| 19 | Omnibus chronicled all this with exemplary thoroughness but finally elided the real aesthetic questions — of a battle between art that invites the viewer to think and art that passes through the mind leaving only a sugary trace of complacent pleasure . |
| 20 | Follow the path west passing over a high stile and making a steep ascent to the summit of Y Garn . |
| 21 | To be listed first among these may according to one estimate confer in the Republic an advantage averaging nearly a thousand first-preference votes . |
| 22 | For surely someone as gifted as that deserved all that could be done for him : and ‘ the gift ’ put it above any gossip about an overkeen schoolmaster bringing on a bright pupil and overrode any chatter about the besotted nature of his devotion . |
| 23 | Mounting debts , unconnected with Crisis Line , may leave the service without a home , wiping out a year 's work building up a national referral network.So Mr Morris wants a grant to continue the work . |
| 24 | Other fathers were often unemployed and jealous of a child bringing home a weekly wage : understandable if they had a daughter like Dolly Ashby : |
| 25 | The race has always been known as le grand boucle , the great belt , a circuit binding together a large and various country whose distant regions — Provence and Picardy , Brittany and Savoy — knew little of each other . |
| 26 | Most significantly , the structure of many rifts examined by seismic methods has been shown to be asymmetric with most of the downthrow occurring along a major boundary listric fault on one side of the rift . |
| 27 | When he saw Topaz climbing down a rough slope he brought Nero to a halt , an overwhelming surge of life running through him as if he were being born anew . |
| 28 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 29 | Before returning , a look down into the tremendous ravine of Ling Gill below the bridge will reveal a most impressive scene , the beck hurrying along a bouldery bed fringed by trees and cliffs on its way to join the Ribble ; several minor caves have been found and explored along its banks but the rough terrain is a deterrent to walkers who prefer to travel sedately . |
| 30 | So if you put a big heavy engine going down a cast iron railway which wo n't |