Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked down at Tom 's heavy brown ankle boots , his thick navy overcoat and the green corduroy cap with the tufts of white hair sticking out at either side . |
| 2 | Just a tall , thin , cross man with a loud voice , pale , staring , pop-eyes , and tufts of spiky hair sticking out from each nostril . |
| 3 | Two days later a horse-and-cart pulled up in Page Street and an elderly man with a shock of ginger hair sticking out from both sides of his battered trilby stepped down and knocked at Aggie 's front door . |
| 4 | The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance . |
| 5 | The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance . |
| 6 | Brad disappears to change clothes , and , when he returns , a grey T-shirt hanging out over green satin pyjama bottoms ‘ for maximum comfort ’ , offers me a cup of coffee . |
| 7 | This structure was only the remains of a bridge , and necessitated a crossing hanging on to one piece of rusty wire while balancing on another single line swinging perilously below . |
| 8 | Older children might prefer the pirate 's treasure chest brimming over with stolen loot , or the sophisticated speed cruiser and space rocket . |
| 9 | A gang walking around in public brandishing bicycle chains could have been convicted . |
| 10 | The Indonesian market has also opened up to foreign investment allowing up to 49 per cent of any listed company or new issue to be bought by foreigners compared with only 11 companies being open to foreign investment previously . |
| 11 | We have the mayor bugging out on this , Scott . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ My Enrico , he is covered with blood looking down on pretty Lisa , lying on her bed of blood . |
| 13 | When in 1961 an Anglo-Kuwaiti accord dating back to 1988 expired , Kuwait became independent . |
| 14 | There are significant differences in the terms and conditions of regular relative to temporary labour , not simply in terms of wages but involving housing and welfare expenses , which can mean regular labour costing up to 50 per cent more . |
| 15 | This epic work is very much Mehra 's creation , the result of an obsession dating back to 1952 , when he decided to make the study of the history of quantum theory his life 's work . |
| 16 | and there 's , and there 's enough fighting going on in this bloody house |
| 17 | Whenever I visit Ian , seeing the fostering going on in various degrees , I 'm filled with admiration and feel I want to let the world know . |
| 18 | He kept his eyes fixed on the crest of the hill over which she would appear freewheeling down on her bicycle , black hair streaming and her long skirt ballooning out on either side like a bat 's wings . |
| 19 | She was a fairy who married a mortal to gain a soul , and made a pact that he would never spy on her on Saturdays , and for years he never did , and they had six sons , all with strange defects — odd ears , giant tusks , a catshead growing out of one cheek , three eyes , that sort of thing . |
| 20 | A TV commentator told viewers during the final morning 's play : ‘ We have seen plenty of seam lifting going on in this match . ’ |
| 21 | White our colour , the colour of limbo : white sands , white rocks , a white light pouring down from all sides . |
| 22 | The first fruits of their mental endeavour are a sobering awareness of the likely complexities of the post-war Middle East and an unease about the meagre quantity of strategic thinking going on in other European and Arab capitals . |
| 23 | She tried to think of nothing at all , but found her mind drifting back to that one subject all the time . |
| 24 | Finials and crockets were profusely employed and the spire itself was a fretwork of stone with light shining through from all sides . |
| 25 | ‘ I felt I had the momentum coming back from 40–0 , ’ the Australian , French and US Open champion added . |
| 26 | Now news of live football coming up on Central in the new season . |
| 27 | Store raw meat at the bottom of the fridge to avoid any blood dripping on to any other foods . |
| 28 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 29 | I think there 's a day of action coming up on this sort of D I Y stuff . |
| 30 | Translated into terms of visual experience , this would be like a semi-transparent door with extra light coming in around all the cracks . |