Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 2 | Slowly , Fand leaned her forehead on the spear-shaft , fair hair raying out in the water . |
| 3 | But referee Ed Morrison 's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge . |
| 4 | Could you say a little bit more about the research going on in the Education Area ? |
| 5 | We had a business man on Question Time who was saying that five hundred million pound fraud going on in the benefits , right ? |
| 6 | The most probable reason for this unjust behaviour by the Roman Governor was that he feared some sort of riot breaking out in the capital city during the festival . |
| 7 | Elean : As a firm supporter of the South African People 's struggle , it is not often that we see this side of apartheid oppression coming out in the liberation literature . |
| 8 | If that was n't enough , what in heaven 's name is that lethal figure running around in the hold , like some latter-day Frankenstein 's monster ? ’ |
| 9 | It 's just to keep it tidy for me and your mummy coming down in the morning son . |
| 10 | Thereafter , several research papers were published on the Lewisian complex , including Dearnley ( 1962 ) , Myers ( 1970 , 1971 ) , Coward ( 1972 , 1973 ) and Coward & and ; Graham ( 1973 ) ; and other papers have been concerned with the geology of the igneous complex of south Harris , and in particular , the anorthosite intrusion cropping out in the south east ( Davidson 1943 ; Dearnley 1963 ) . |
| 11 | So I tried the RSPCA inspector , but it seemed he was more concerned with a cow wandering about in a shopping mall in Carmarthen . |
| 12 | Longman ) of the owner of a chain of ten shops who suspected that his level of sales was a function of the number of shoppers per hour passing by in the street , and the floor area of a given store . |
| 13 | Surely not all that protein synthesis going on in the absence of the inhibitor could be about learning and memory ; some other fundamental aspects of behaviour must be affected ? |
| 14 | I see not the slightest prospect with the scale of introduction of these alien wedges into the population of our cities , of a community attitude growing up in the future . |
| 15 | Within my own practice , I have never met a white child who says he or she is not white ; neither have I met a black child growing up in a black family saying that he or she is not black . |
| 16 | Let us consider the poverty of understanding which a child growing up in a religiously deprived background might have of one of the most evocative concepts in religious language , that of " heaven " . |
| 17 | Even as a child growing up in the Fifties , she and her sister , Marlene , preferred to spend their sixpence pocket money on animal welfare classes run by a local RSPCA inspector rather than go to the cinema . |
| 18 | ‘ I know from other work going on in the south of Shetland that 10 per cent of the residents there remain concerned about the possibility of major long-term health effects , ’ he said . |
| 19 | He 's got to fulfil all three roles , and the more managerial work going on in the office , the harder it is to find the time to do the work for the clients , which is what produces the fees . |
| 20 | Michael Holly was an unremarkable boy growing up in the suburbs of south-west London . |
| 21 | The poem is thus curiously " displaced " , a late Victorian work turning up in the crisp 1930s , the Auden decade . |
| 22 | Meanwhile there 's nothing mystical about the version of Sumo wrestling going on in the city centre . |
| 23 | Masklin supposed it was the machine 's equivalent of a nome getting up in the morning . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , shades of Intel Inside , expect to see a PowerPC image campaign starting up in the second half . |
| 25 | Erm I 've got a girl sitting down in the foyer . |
| 26 | Half an hour later he was seated on her couch reading a financial magazine she subscribed to while in the kitchen a cheesecake was defrosting in the microwave , and a home-made lasagne warming up in the oven . |
| 27 | There ought to be enough intelligence sloshing around in the world for humans to have some too . |
| 28 | And though Flaubert aggressively excised from ‘ La Paysanne ’ Mme Colet 's line about the running smoke on the horizon , this does n't debar from his own countryside ( Part Three , chapter four ) ‘ the smoke of a railway engine stretching out in a horizontal line , like a gigantic ostrich feather whose tip kept blowing away . ’ |
| 29 | There 's a lot of change going on in the game at the moment , which is always a healthy sign . |
| 30 | there is some change going on in the rural economy and perhaps he does want to interpret it as er a revolution which the communists can actually get involved in so he 's writing his paper and saying look , this is happening it may not be a rel revolution , but it |