Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The afternoon was drawing in and the water was choppy under the keen wind . |
| 2 | Outside , he headed for the bridge and there , halfway across , he came at last to a halt , with traffic rushing past , the river gleaming below and the city reaching away in an infinite complex parade of shining white and pearly grey with light snapping from windows and cars . |
| 3 | At Platform Three stood a rake of blue and grey BR Mr. 1 coaches , headed by one of Vulcan Foundry 's famous ‘ Whistlers ’ , its 16 cylinders thumping gently and the turbocharger drilling away in the well-known manner which earned the class its nickname during 30 years and 250 Million train-miles of running over BR 's main lines . |
| 4 | look at Bryony , with that red peaked hood and , and the front of this rain cover hanging down and the back bit all punched up at the back |
| 5 | So let's sum up , I treated a similar case with 5 times the amount of fluid than the article used , the case was solid the next day and was viewed for 3 days and had no greying off and the colour was really good . |
| 6 | Very occasionally his path crossed that of a couple walking home or a group of a young friends going up to the centre , and then the brief appraising glances they gave him left Zen feeling obscurely ill at ease , underlining as they did his lack of purpose or direction . |
| 7 | Advances in all aspects of low energy ion scattering are occurring rapidly and the breadth of these applications will certainly expand in the near future . |
| 8 | ( i ) if either party shall pass a resolution for winding up or the court shall make an order that either party shall be wound up ( in either case other than for the purpose of reconstruction ) or if a receiver or manager on behalf of a creditor be appointed , or if circumstances shall arise which would entitle a court or a creditor to appoint a receiver or manager or which would entitle a court to make a winding up order ; or |
| 9 | But as specialisation increases , such practices are dying out and the production chief who gives all his business to one or two companies is viewed with frank suspicion . |
| 10 | One shell landing nearby and every window in the school could be blown out again . |
| 11 | Streaming is appearing again and the government seem to be encouraging this with the creation of City Technology Colleges . |
| 12 | And the engine man he was on his knees beside the engine the engine was sticking over and the officer was in charge watching when we was watching the boat coming towards the grating you know . |
| 13 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
| 14 | That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's pulled the dressing off but the wound is healing nicely . |
| 16 | and it was always the picking up and the speed of it and so I thought well I , I |
| 17 | The swell was picking up and the wind turning around . |
| 18 | And the book is pushing back and the pen pushing on each other , so pushing out that way . |
| 19 | I have erm one daughter living here and a son living here but my eldest daughter is in the United States and my granddaughter is just finishing her last year of law . |
| 20 | On finance , Heseltine conceded that the public had " not been persuaded that the [ community ] charge is fair " , and he stated that it would be replaced by a new local tax under which there would be a single bill for each household comprising two essential elements : the number of adults living there and the value of the property . |
| 21 | I was down there looking round and the herdsman introduced us . |
| 22 | Busy and happy — tiring certainly but a night 's rest producing renewed energy and enthusiasm for the coming day . |
| 23 | WITH the ice cracking and groaning underfoot and the wind etching their faces , Robert Swan stood at the North Pole and turned to the woman for whom he had just walked to the end of the earth . |
| 24 | and a knick knack paddy wack give the dog a bone , my old man went tumbling home and a knick knack paddy wack give a dog a bone my old man went tumbling home How much is that doggy in the window , woof woof Woof woof , woof woof . |
| 25 | Everything is going right and the act have a very good chance of success . |
| 26 | ‘ There was no restoration work going on and no restoration materials stored there . |
| 27 | ‘ Unless something is done about what is going on and a stop is put to the chaos , then the health-care prospects for London are very gloomy . ’ |
| 28 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 29 | ‘ I went out to see what was going on and a policeman told us to evacuate the area . |
| 30 | Over the last fourteen years forty two million pounds and if they go on the way their going on and the way they 're talking it 's all gon na be for nicks nowt . |