Example sentences of "a [noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead . |
| 2 | That certainly would fit very well with the familiar notion of a writer shaking off the anguished preoccupations of childhood and adolescence , free now in his maturity to put ironic distance between himself and that world , but it wo n't do . |
| 3 | They pause , watching her long walk across the grass , a supplicant walking up the cathedral nave , she has a sense of awe , her hands are cold and damp in spite of the heat . |
| 4 | My master read these through carefully like a clerk marking up a ledger . |
| 5 | Only I misheard and thought he said a cow hanging over a chair . |
| 6 | They had come quietly but Tom had ears that could hear a mouse moving underground , or a squirrel breathing in a tree . |
| 7 | An example of such a clause is the following which was found in the Foreign Compensation Act 1950 , a statute setting up a body known as the Foreign Compensation Commission : ‘ The determination by the commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called in question in any court of law . ’ |
| 8 | I found myself frustrated by unanswered questions at every turn : why are the shields of Prince William and Harry blank in the College of Arms 's pedigree book — and why does Mark Phillips 's coat of arms have a horse jumping over a small white-flowered plant ? |
| 9 | Then she looked behind her and saw a carriage coming up the same hill that she had just climbed , with a man leading the horse . |
| 10 | … with a practised rippling smoothness like a boat gliding over a quiet dark river . |
| 11 | I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal . |
| 12 | I want a side parting down the |
| 13 | Sometimes it 's a beggar stretching out a hand for coins whilst the other conceals the knife . |
| 14 | They traversed lush apricot orchards without comment ; they ignored a shepherd holding out a bowl of milk ; wordlessly they returned to the village where Miss Fergusson , her calculated civility now restored to her , asked the elder if lodgings could be supplied to them without delay . |
| 15 | Some late night joy-riding fool of a soldier ripping up the beach with his big truck tyres ? |
| 16 | This provides a classic instance of a president taking on the legislature in the most important of policy areas and succeeding in imposing his will . |
| 17 | This was done by asking them to report the position of a dot moving round an oscilloscope screen at the moment of the experience . |
| 18 | ‘ They did n't see anything because they were working in their little tent , ’ she went on , ‘ but they did hear someone hurrying past and then a car starting up a little way away . |
| 19 | Using a car weighing over a ton to transport a 12 stone person less than five miles is like using an atomic bomb to kill a canary . |
| 20 | I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand . |
| 21 | He heard a burst of gunfire and saw a car disappearing down the Glen Road . |
| 22 | A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ . |
| 23 | I worked it out , from things Barbara Coleman told me , and I hitched a lift in a car going up the valley and walked the last mile or two . |
| 24 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 25 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 26 | Posi 's voice sounded weary , like a parent pointing out the obvious to troublesome children . |
| 27 | ‘ Doone is considering it was a child playing out a fantasy , ’ I said . |
| 28 | Wherever there 's a cop beating up a guy , I 'll be there . |
| 29 | Jonathon Pendrous ; by day a cleaner clearing up the stage after other peoples ' glory , but by night when the actors have gone home , and the audience has left the theatre to its ghostly past … |
| 30 | She could even see a thrush pecking out a scarlet yew berry , swallowing the scarlet flesh and spitting out the poisonous pip . |