Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked up an old ornament : a serpent winding itself around a globe ; an appropriate image . |
| 2 | ( In this particular area of using dictionaries in catalogue systems , the only precedent of which I am aware is of a university paying something in the region of $40–50,000 . ) |
| 3 | I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst . |
| 4 | ALISTAIR Bell , whose wife was found murdered in a sports centre car park , won undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story linking him with her death . |
| 5 | Once , he had sensed a presence following him on the trail . |
| 6 | He 's got a nerve asking you to , well letting you do this . |
| 7 | It is an unrelieved black except for the white flanks but a watcher catching it in the right light might see the head has an iridescent purple sheen which can be striking . |
| 8 | Lord Aldington , 75 , is seeking damages from Nigel Watts , a property developer , who circulated a pamphlet accusing him of arranging every detail of the repatriation of 70,000 Yugoslav and Russian men , women and children who were subsequently tortured and massacred . |
| 9 | Lord Aldington , a UK peer and former Army officer , was on Nov. 30 , 1989 , awarded £1,500,000 in libel damages over a pamphlet accusing him of deliberately sending 70,000 Yugoslavs and Cossacks to their death in 1945 . |
| 10 | A weekly magazine , L'Europeo , published a piece on the problems of restoration and reproduced a photograph of a panel by the sixteenth-century Ferrarese painter Ortolano , in the Pinacoteca Capodimonte , with a caption describing it as Leonardo 's ‘ Last Supper ’ . |
| 11 | Several rioters were killed during an attack on a mill using them at Salford in 1812 , but few manufacturers had as yet introduced them , or were intending to in the near future , and disturbances were intermingled with food riots and political agitation . |
| 12 | They sold well enough to justify a second edition , completely re-set , with a few misprints corrected , with the countertenor solos removed from the alto clef to the treble in tactful acknowledgement of the amateur market , and with a title-page announcing it as a new edition . |
| 13 | ‘ I want a clean up , not a snakesiren making it with a mongoose on my face . ’ |
| 14 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
| 15 | In one incident a police officer had to defend himself with a truncheon against a girl threatening him with a piece of broken glass . |
| 16 | It was a dish owing nothing to Sammut 's sex and everything to Provence . |
| 17 | A group describing itself as the " Iraqi national opposition " called on Feb. 19 for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein , as had a communiqué issued on Jan. 28 by the Islamic opposition in Iraq . |
| 18 | I know you play golf it might be a danger putting you on the golf courses . |
| 19 | Yeltsin signed a decree relieving him of his post on Oct. 23 . |
| 20 | all of a sudden saying something about it out of the blue , you know , and |
| 21 | ‘ We 're always on the look-out for stories of good performance and good practice somewhere in the group , ’ says Jones , who writes all the copy in a job taking him on a growing number of foreign assignments . |
| 22 | If I could get a job doing summat like that I reckon I would n't have to stay at Combe Court . |
| 23 | 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest . |
| 24 | Newman and Copland walked to the edge of the entrance , a grenade silencing one post a mere 25 yards away ; over the water the searchlight of the Mole could be seen beamed on the river . |
| 25 | In order to put this over sympathetically to consumers , the Central Authority issued a directive enforcing it on Area Boards : thus underlining the absolute necessity for this increase . |
| 26 | NEXT loop to " work down " a string doing something with each letter in the string . |
| 27 | I can easily walk out onto the streets to do some shopping : the centre of the town is crammed with funny little shops of all kinds , bars , cafes , etc. , many of them open to the street , there was even a shop selling nothing but plastic bags ( they did n't seem to be doing much of a trade ) . |
| 28 | A starling anointing itself with the defensive fluids of an ant . |
| 29 | It 's , it 's erm enough of a shock changing it to A four without stapling it , you know . |
| 30 | The demand must be dated and signed by the creditor himself or by a person stating himself to be authorised to make the demand on the creditor 's behalf . |