Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was sufficient daylight pushing in from outside to enable Elisabeth to take her bearings , but she needed the light of her torch to find the entrance to the narrow middle chamber . |
| 2 | Shotgun ‘ It was like both barrels of a 12-bore shotgun going off at once . ’ |
| 3 | Is our aid getting through to where it 's most needed ? |
| 4 | There is always a closed circle of suspects ( so there can be no question of someone unconnected with the setting coming in from outside and doing the deed , as might well happen in " real life " ) and each of these suspects has to have a credible motive as well as reasonable opportunity of committing the crime and reasonable access to the means with which it was committed . |
| 5 | He remembers a summer afternoon with Keith , the light coming in through partly drawn curtains , Keith 's tight curls resting on John 's lap . |
| 6 | She snatched it up and thrust it into her bag , her glance flicking up to yet another magnificent view . |
| 7 | There seems to be some poetry rattling about in there , rather as air rattles about in the bowels , but to get it out with a proper report — that 's the trick ! |
| 8 | But they represent a great slice of gardening history ( no plants , no gardens ) and provide us with a rich , exciting and often colourful tapestry of adventure and discovery going back at least several hundred years . |
| 9 | Just this fat bloke going on about how much he does n't know . ’ |
| 10 | DO N'T leave your cooked turkey lying around for too long . |
| 11 | NHS and council spending up by around 3 |
| 12 | But it is full of frustrating inconsistencies , with the central auto-da-fe scene standing out in almost shocking relief from everything else . |
| 13 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 14 | Daddy 's having a ca , chaos going on in there ! |
| 15 | I 've just heard about a very good antique shop opening over at Warmly . |
| 16 | Chomsky and Sampson claim that this tree-like decomposition of a sentence into its parts is a feature common to all human language , and is indeed the basis upon which we determine the meaning of a sentence from the way it is built up out of its parts ( an insight going back at least to Frege ) . |
| 17 | Is is there some transport going off round there ? |
| 18 | His piece had clearly been written more in anger than in sorrow , the landlord 's indiscrimination coming in for as much disapprobation as the racist high spirits shown by the Young Conservatives . |
| 19 | In Leeds a professional burglar turns out to be just 13 , with a record stretching back to when he was seven . |
| 20 | An eagle looking down from above implies a threat whereas a heron flying from A to B suggests a more peaceable purpose . |
| 21 | so a one-legged person going out of here . |
| 22 | It looks like there is some kind of compromise going on between really nineteen sixties modern and a traditional newspaper . |
| 23 | But the outflow is perennially full , white water pouring down to where the moor cleaves open and lets it fall to sea . |
| 24 | Especially when you have like , we had boiling water pouring out of there . |
| 25 | That is , is the colour rising up from underneath in an individuating way , or is it a light cast from down er from on top by the one , which then could n't individuate them with respect to people for instance . |
| 26 | Reporters spent the day scurrying around in far from dignified fashion but not even the foreign television networks , with the vast logistical operations they run , were able to establish any sightings or obtain any hard information . |
| 27 | There was money coming in from overseas , Germany , Belgium , Holland , there wa everywhere helping us . |
| 28 | No you have to do draw another branch coming out of there and there and there and there and you know ? |
| 29 | I 'll do one branch coming out of there and that 'll be it there you go . |
| 30 | You 've got to look at them from different angles , see if there 's any smoke bellowing out from anywhere , or somebody 's hanging out of a window . |