Example sentences of "[noun prp] [v-ing] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harrogate scored all their points in the first half with a try by their Yorkshire scrum half , Guy Easterby , from a blind side scrum move , Steve Baker touching down a try following a tap penalty move . |
| 2 | I remembered Mr Broadhurst-that-was mopping up the Sally Lunns but that was a mere warm-up exercise compared to this . |
| 3 | She hurried back down the stairs to find Will mopping up the remains of his soup from the stone-flagged kitchen floor . |
| 4 | The line of boys and masters — Hasan and Rafiq bringing up the rear — made its way through pools of water and patches of sodden black earth , across the cinder track leading up towards the Windmill , and to the chestnut-trees , now almost empty of leaves , that shadow the edge of parkside . |
| 5 | Inverdarroch : His typewriter , her knittin' machine , Laura Ashley patchwork kit cushion covers , jugs o' weeds on the mantelpiece and the collected works of Lillian Beckwith takin' up a hail shelf of the stripped pine kitchen dresser ! |
| 6 | Both were involved in the opening goal , Johnrose heading down a corner from the right by Paul Cross and Saville striking a shot Kevan Smith sliced , as he attempted to clear , into the Darlington net . |
| 7 | It 's the fat doorman at a terribly grand hotel , dressed in the livery of an olde worlde flunkey to give foreign tourists a thrill , and blowing a little whistle , his cheeks puffed like Aeolus sending out the wind . |
| 8 | It could have been Hick holding together a Worcestershire innings — and that is exactly what England have been waiting and hoping for from the man who had completed 57 first-class hundreds before he was 25 . |
| 9 | When they gave quite unacceptable displays of dissent , such as Holding kicking down the stumps or Croft deliberately barging into an umpire who had no-balled him , Lloyd did nothing to discipline them in public view . |
| 10 | Carrie sat around the bed with her mother and Fred chatting for a while , and it was not too long before they saw Joe Maitland coming down the ward . |
| 11 | Hector fending off a MacIan sword from him . |
| 12 | WHAT WAS JONAH doing inside the whale in the first place ? |
| 13 | Chris Summers tidying up the area around the Second World War gun turret site at Harwich |
| 14 | Kathleen and Jack ran to meet the ambulance , Kathleen taking over the bagging of one of the victims who had arrested in the ambulance . |
| 15 | Lord Roberts carrying out the inspection of the Officer Training Corps in Bordon . |
| 16 | Tony Soper was Nature 's early-riser and this programme suggested it is something of a habit with him , for we also saw him in the Falklands carrying out an investigation into whether the war — or was it just a conflict ? — had upset the wildlife there . |
| 17 | Members of 4 Platoon , B Company , of the Royal Hampshires carrying out a vehicle check in the city centre |
| 18 | Now obviously B does follow quite properly from A but let's start off with Mr Williamson picking up the question , Is the policy required and if so does it give everybody sufficient guidance . |
| 19 | A female out-take from ‘ Metal Box ’ with the guitars turned up , with a weirdo piano bit in the middle with Katie singing down a toilet and then a thrash ending . |
| 20 | Both the Confederation of British Industry/Business Strategies report into consumer confidence and the Trade Indemnity investigation into business failures show Scotland bringing up the rear if , as expected , the economy moves out of recession in 1993 . |
| 21 | Then Comrade President Thomas Sankara stepping off a plane , during a state visit , inspects a row of soldiers and salutes a flag . |
| 22 | Walking through the village I met Councillor Raymond Kilner cleaning out the well . |
| 23 | He said that a constant stream of information was flowing out in England indicating how the targets are to be achieved south of the Border . |
| 24 | Louis , catching Léonie lifting up the mahogany flap in the seat of what looked like one of the pews in church , forbade her future entry . |
| 25 | There is talk , too , of Kenny McKinstry putting in an appearance to give his Subaru a pre-Donegal work-out following its trip to Barbados . |
| 26 | SECRET talks in London between the African National Congress and a group of liberal Afrikaners , including President FW de Klerk 's brother , ended yesterday with the ANC playing down the significance of the event and President de Klerk dissociating himself from it . |
| 27 | The court held that , despite its literal width , the expression did not embrace two Chileans resident in Chile who had never been to England , although they were partners with persons in England carrying on a business here . |
| 28 | He is in England filming Not A Penny More , Not A Penny Less . |
| 29 | The entablature and cornice are decorated in a restrained manner and originally the tympanum was ornamented with a bronze relief of Zeus striking down the Greeks . |
| 30 | 59101 newly named ‘ Village of Whatley ’ at Bridgnorth heading down the Severn Valley Railway at the top of Northwood Lane , Bewdley , during the SVR Diesel Gala . |