Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost any gym has them ’ — DAVE EDWARDS ( former Transvaal hooker now living in New Zealand ) . |
| 2 | How many other twenty-two-year-olds stayed in on a Saturday night just listening to the rain hurl itself against the windows ? |
| 3 | Calendars , it seems , have almost become McGairy 's stock in trade for here as openers there are the original watercolours for Great Ayton and Saltburn Beach both selling at £160 to set alongside the sepia reproduction of Gunnerside and Staithes and Cowbar from the ICI Kennelix Oilfield Calendar , also of 1992 . |
| 4 | ‘ Ethnic communities are reproducing a culture which the majority of British people have n't yet accepted as part of the British landscape , ’ says Dr Tariq Madood , a fellow at Nuffield College currently writing on the changing character of racism . |
| 5 | It 's different but erm if you really get an Orkney talker just talking to one another and er drawing out the words sometimes and so on it can get to be the same lilt as Welsh . |
| 6 | The second point I want to er make Mr Deputy Speaker wholly relating to this erm er clutch of er orders of which er eighteen plus the er the schedule which the minister did n't have time to go through in great detail , is the thrust of why I put the amendment down erm in fact that this order should not be er erm approved indeed until the citizens of Gibraltar have been and able to be represented in the European parliament . |
| 7 | He 's er a financial whiz kid now is n't he as well Adam Faith so talking to Dennis this afternoon on Afternoon Special . |
| 8 | Mr Cairns , a former Ulster teacher now lecturing in Japan who is home on a study project , said : ‘ They went for a meal to McDonalds and when the girls said they would take a taxi back to the Young Women 's Christian Association the boys told them not to take a black taxi because they were too expensive . |
| 9 | In August it was revealed that Karen Smith , the Birmingham girl currently languishing in a Thailand prison after being convicted of drug smuggling , had been signed up by agents IMG . |
| 10 | Strong walkers will proceed beyond the Lochan Dubha and climb the easy ridge of Druim Hain directly facing until reaching a well-built obelisk commanding a sensational view of Loch Coruisk in a surround of wild mountains . |
| 11 | A large poster , spotlighted at the back of the shop , advertised the James Tissot exhibition currently showing at the art gallery . |
| 12 | Danny Quinn was substituted against Dublin after twenty minutes and there must be a question mark over his participation in the final with Fergal McCusker and Karl Diamond both pressing for places . |
| 13 | Villa 's sharp shooters , mounting a serious championship bid , switch their sights to the Coca-Cola Cup tonight aiming to gun down Oxford . |
| 14 | An eighteen-year-old boy who had flown from India to marry a Calcutta girl now living in Liverpool was detained for three days by the officials , who suspected him of being under age and of using marriage as a trick to get a work permit . |
| 15 | ‘ Is that police chopper at Frankfurt Airport still standing by ? |