Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing she needed tonight was Victoria swanning around looking like a juvenile femme fatale . |
| 2 | Fig. 2 TOF spectra for : ( a ) 4keV Ar + scattering from a clean W{211} surface ; ( b ) 4keV Ne+ scattering from a hydrogen chemisorbed W{211} surface ; and ( c ) 4keV Ar + scattering from an oxygen chemisorbed W{211} surface . |
| 3 | Then the words started to hiss out of me , stale , rubberised air escaping from a subsiding Li-lo . |
| 4 | According to a Labour Par a Labour Party survey based on information from Scotland 's job centres , eighteen to twenty few twenty four year old out of work has risen by twenty eight percent since nineteen ninety . |
| 5 | I felt my eyelids begin to droop and the warmth of the room slowly turning into a soft buzz in my head , the sort of sound which so often precedes the sudden slip into sleep itself . |
| 6 | WE are all going on a big buzz to the countryside for the week on a special nature trip ! |
| 7 | The Chesterfield monument ( c.1580–90 ) , commemorating an unknown member of the Foljambe family , has the corpse loosely wrapped in an end-knotted winding-sheet and lying on a bier — the corpse does not lie flat but is slightly concave , as though suffering from a slight rigor mortis . |
| 8 | I 'd waited a bloody long time to be with you again , and there I was , behaving like a blasted prima donna and wasting my chances . |
| 9 | How do you see the A fifty nine functioning as a strategic erm east west route across the county . |
| 10 | Mind you , Ann , I suppose that 's why Pat got thinking about a Tory er vote . |
| 11 | He got out here , when he unwraps it he beaming like a little ki . |
| 12 | Dickinson saw his face , heavy-eyed and working like a drunk 's . |