Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To avoid it , it meant climbing up from the Glen Lyon side and attacking the Ben via the three westerly Munros that share its ridge . |
| 32 | Then the dome was echoing with the last anthem : she was walking out into the September sunshine on João 's arm ; the crowds were cheering in the streets , gasping at the splendour of her dress and showering her with flowers and petals . |
| 33 | Just 22 months after walking out on the Merseyside club , the 41-year-old Scot received a warm reception from the Kop as he took his place on the Blackburn Rovers bench . |
| 34 | In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now . |
| 35 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 36 | Jansher , who was already on probation after being fined £200 for walking out of the Kuala Lumpur World Open dinner in October , has clearly reached a point of no return with his conduct . |
| 37 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 38 | Once , on a day of snow and melting slush , he was walking back to the Marylebone Road when the Asshe carriage passed by , with Johnny at the reins . |
| 39 | He was walking back from a Didcot Pub , when a gang set upon him as he took a short cut across a railway footbridge . |
| 40 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |
| 41 | For a moment I thought of driving out to the Jackson house , and beating out of the lawyer whatever information he had . |
| 42 | ‘ The boy we saw driving out in the Mercedes tourer . |
| 43 | So it was with some trepidation that I put forward the idea of his leaping back into the West End , twenty years after he 'd gratefully left it . |
| 44 | The cocked hat brings to mind the hapless Governor of the Falkland Islands , Rex Hunt , driving around in a London taxi until the Argentines came to expel him . |
| 45 | Driving around in a Rolls . |
| 46 | THE honours were shared at todays opening round of the Ulster Motocross championships at Desertmartin were Philip Neill and David White collected maximum points in the opening races . |
| 47 | NIGEL MANSELL smashed the track record in yesterday 's first qualifying round for the Indycar grand prix in Surfers Paradise , Australia , and vowed to go even faster today . |
| 48 | What have you been doing all day — walking round with the Michelin , looking at churches ? ’ |
| 49 | PCTE was developed by the Commission of the European Communities in 1983 , has been implemented across Europe and is now filtering through to the US . |
| 50 | ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained . |
| 51 | Looking down towards the Orne I could see a thick mist over the water and patches of mist hanging over the cornfields . |
| 52 | There are 72 waterfalls in the Lauterbrunnen valley , cascading down into the Lutschine river which surges along the valley floor in a rush of white foaming water . |
| 53 | He could easily have been a character in a Thomas Mann novel — the great remote maestro venturing down from The Magic Mountain to talk to a visiting writer . |
| 54 | I thought the two rivers both rising on Plynlimmon and then flowing their separate ways like brother and sister then meeting down under the Severn Bridge — I thought that provided a very nice theme for this beautiful border country |
| 55 | Donegal would n't fancy meeting Down in an Ulster final . ’ |
| 56 | The houses in the High Street went stravaiging down to the Gallowgate and the Saltmarket , to which last place no sane citizen would go as it was full of cutthroat robbers , avoided even by the police . |
| 57 | What we propose to do today is : I discuss how we see our unit fitting in with the Borders psychiatric service and services for the confused elderly in the Borders . |
| 58 | Get your playgroup involved by writing off for the Playweek kit , which contains all kinds of money-making ideas . |
| 59 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
| 60 | THE drive to save energy is picking up in the United States — and helping to boost demand for a Courtaulds product . |