Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | N : Looking at my nappies hanging on a washing line in our kitchen |
| 2 | ‘ It 's redlining it at 6,000 , ’ he said , referring to the straining Tachometer , while firing down a bus lane in first gear at about forty . |
| 3 | Furthermore even in a fused profession , the barristers in chambers in the Inns of Court and elsewhere would undoubtedly enter into partnership as specialist trial advocates and do agency work for other solicitors , whose own staff were unable to act as advocates in every case or where the complexity of the case justified bringing in a specialist advocate . |
| 4 | Harry was scarcely acquainted with his horse and could offer no reassurance ; neither did he think of bringing in a companion horse for the mare . |
| 5 | TITIA Sutherland 's OUT OF THE SHADOWS ( Black Swan £5.99 ) deals tenderly with the relationship of a girl and an ageing woman , as well as bringing in a ghost story and wartime tragedy . |
| 6 | Its origin , and its method of financing , almost inevitably led to it becoming effectively a horse infirmary . |
| 7 | She had no time to spare for embarrassment , due to shoes totally unsuitable for climbing down a cliff path . |
| 8 | A man driving down a country road is stopped , and a spike is driven into his head . |
| 9 | In A Landscape with Simple Figures , the teacher is advised first to demonstrate the drawing with charcoal on a large sheet of white paper ; the landscape , illustrating figures walking down a country road , is shown in the manual for her to copy . |
| 10 | Police Constable Harry Evans is driving along a country road when he sees strange lights in the sky and an object larger than a bus hovering in the road ahead of him . |
| 11 | Willie was in the town garage , giving good advice to someone stripping down a motor bike . |
| 12 | Yet governments ought to resist the temptation to dismiss peace movements as representing only a minority opinion , for it is in the nature of a wider but vaguer anxiety about the issue that it can hardly be organized or form the basis of a coherent campaign . |
| 13 | Relax deeply , then imagine yourself walking along a country lane . |
| 14 | How much could you guess about a conversation between two people walking along a country lane for example ? |
| 15 | In an experiment , leaf-cutter ants of the species Atta texana had to follow a trail by walking along a plastic roadway placed just above the trail ; they followed the trail as usual , but must have done so by the airborne odour of evaporated scent . |
| 16 | He was eaten by two one eyed tigers walking along a path arm in arm ! |
| 17 | He banged her head backwards , knocking down a domino row of Christmas cards . |
| 18 | Two huntsmen have been jailed for two months for knocking down a hunt saboteur with a four wheeled buggy . |
| 19 | ‘ Give it back you thief , ’ he bawls after me , but I spurt ahead , knocking over a coupla kids who start bawling and bellyaching as well , but I do n't stop to investigate , because after all , I 'm doing them a favour , the sooner they learn that life is full of hard knocks the better . |
| 20 | He was pursued and caught , and would appear at Southend Magistrates ' Court charged with taking and driving away a Jaguar car without the owner 's consent from the Foulness road on Saturday afternoon . |
| 21 | But if you want to see the beauty of Corsica without worrying about driving over a cliff edge , try The Trembler . |
| 22 | Her mother was there , checking over a grocery order . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's becoming just a fashion statement . |
| 24 | Out at the line-up , the three men were climbing over a routine thirty-five-footer when they heard screaming and the toot of car horns from the beach . |
| 25 | NATO will now plan opening up a land corridor to the beleaguered city of Sarajevo for armed relief convoys . |
| 26 | He managed to complete the last lap with a flourish in a little under a minute , opening up a 10-metre lead down the back straight . |
| 27 | A modern patio with a large glazed area is the ideal way of opening up a living room by leading the eye out into the garden . |
| 28 | He saved enough to buy a small hat-shop in Belfast , installed a manageress and on the slender profits of this enterprise read medicine at Queen 's University , Belfast , becoming later a consultant physician in Sydney , Australia . |
| 29 | The production , on a narrow stage representing both a railway carriage and a station platform , has been very sensitively directed by Ian Brown with restrained use of sound effects and subtle lighting . |
| 30 | 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 ! |