Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leave a crust of blood hanging on the nails |
| 2 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 3 | ‘ What we wanted to tell you , ’ she continued , ‘ was that we'se goin' up the woods on Saturdee and we was wonderin' if you 'd come with us like . ’ |
| 4 | And all the hardware and systems companies that have made a precarious living gathering up the crumbs under IBM 's table . |
| 5 | The 60ft high and 200ft long figure spelling out No Pylons will be set up at Beacon Hill , Kirby Sigston , near Borrowby in the Thirsk area . |
| 6 | They were moved by their own flesh and blood acting out the motions of birth and parentage with that mixture of awkwardness , ignorance , seriousness and imitation which can be observed in the necessary games of mothers and fathers . |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ said Harry , already in his mind scrambling down the rocks in the dark to Severnside . |
| 8 | Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses . |
| 9 | The poet breaking down the barricades Radio . |
| 10 | They heard and then stopped heading the wind breathing in the trees overhead and the stream rustling in the valley . |
| 11 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 12 | If the abolition of private property still leaves the proletariat carrying out the orders of management , it remains an exploited class . |
| 13 | On Sept. 23 the federal government adopted a draft law laying down the modalities of partition and providing for the reallocation of the federal state 's property , institutions , debts and obligations between the two republics before Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 14 | At that meeting we hope to agree a manifesto setting out the policies which members think the Montgomeryshire Branch should adopt . |
| 15 | Of course the bigger clients are getting the message and do keep in touch but with the rest it 's proving hard work teasing out the issues and reassuring there 's value in it for them . |
| 16 | Lee : I have n't experienced any problem in classes , but when I 'm in the group hanging about the corridors I do , not really in class , like David . |
| 17 | I 'd sit up in my room bashing out the blues like I was Blind Lemon Matlock . |
| 18 | They sometimes got incredibly bold in the competition for the fish offal ; I have seen a fisherman cleaning out the insides of a fish while a gull was hanging on to the tail tugging frantically in its attempt to get a meal ! |
| 19 | I have just read the article in November 's Today 's Horse on gadgets by Carolyn Henderson and I would like to say that in my opinion she has done a very good job pointing out the dangers of people with their own horses who resort to gadgets to get an outline and not to time and schooling . |
| 20 | Now he looked again at the two betting-slips that lay on the table in front of him ; then turned to the back of the Business section for the Sport , his eye running down the results of the previous day 's racing at Fontwell Park . |
| 21 | A new biennial series of matches was established on Sunday the 24th September 1978 , with a fancy dress parade led by a brass band starting off the proceedings . |
| 22 | From about this time , or a little later , he was also meditating , according to Du Camp , a novel about the theatre ; he would sit in the green room jotting down the confidences of over-candid actresses . |
| 23 | The chief executive or clerk of the authority will send to each member of the committee an agenda some days before the meeting setting out the items to be discussed at the meeting . |
| 24 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin on April 11 issued a decree setting up an arms export commission , the aim of which would be to regulate and prevent the export of material and technology from Russia which might be used abroad in the manufacture of military hardware or weapons , including weapons of mass destruction . |
| 25 | It was falling so fast that rivulets of rain streaming down the window-panes made it difficult to see out at all . |
| 26 | She stood at the back of the dingy room , the child close by her side , and she listened to the clerk calling out the offences — soliciting was a common phrase , but once he said ‘ Procuring of men ’ — and she noticed that the Justice hardly raised his head : ‘ One pound or one month . |
| 27 | Fabia felt a nibble of excitement get to her as she ran a comb through her long golden hair , and even found that there were traces of a smile picking up the corners of her mouth . |
| 28 | Panic set in on the twelfth day when , after ‘ lifting ’ milk , a lorry picking up the churns stopped , the driver beckoning Harry . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh ! ’ she breathed blissfully , and , with an impish smile turning up the corners of her mouth , ‘ Do n't stop there . ’ |
| 30 | Inside illustration : why is art going down the tubes ? |