Example sentences of "a [noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My master read these through carefully like a clerk marking up a ledger . |
| 2 | Only I misheard and thought he said a cow hanging over a chair . |
| 3 | They had come quietly but Tom had ears that could hear a mouse moving underground , or a squirrel breathing in a tree . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | … with a practised rippling smoothness like a boat gliding over a quiet dark river . |
| 7 | Sometimes it 's a beggar stretching out a hand for coins whilst the other conceals the knife . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Doone is considering it was a child playing out a fantasy , ’ I said . |
| 13 | Wherever there 's a cop beating up a guy , I 'll be there . |
| 14 | She could even see a thrush pecking out a scarlet yew berry , swallowing the scarlet flesh and spitting out the poisonous pip . |
| 15 | This is followed by a horizontally scrolling scene featuring a dragon flying over a rocky landscape ( it would look a bit silly if it were cycling over it ) . |
| 16 | Such thoughts soothed me , and then the reality of what had happened would come shooting through my consciousness like a speedboat churning up a calm sea : how dare he decree that I must wear a badge indicating , for men 's convenience , whether I was available or already had an owner ? |
| 17 | I was getting some drawing prep once and what I was actually told to draw was a towel hanging over a chair . |
| 18 | He was a tourist peering over a painter 's shoulder as he scanned my unread stack of books . |
| 19 | I mean th the , the analogy that occurs to me is of a dam holding back a raging torrent . |
| 20 | If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point . |
| 21 | The path marked by a ball rolling down a corrugated graph paper would reveal a gap when the paper is later flattened . |
| 22 | The contest turned out more like a flyweight taking on a cruiserweight , with the referee on the cruiser 's side . |
| 23 | The man went to a jacket hanging on a nail in the corner , and Produced a used envelope with pencilled writing on the outside . |
| 24 | ‘ If someone has gone through the trauma of a crime like this the last thing they want to see is a court handing out a light sentence , ’ she said . |
| 25 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 26 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 27 | Therefore a passenger jumping off a moving bus and injuring himself would bring the motor vehicle within this section , but not generally where a driver has left his stationary motor vehicle parked on a road . |
| 28 | He 'd thought he did love her , until she went on worrying at it , thrashing it to and fro , churning up feelings like a dog digging up a bone . |
| 29 | It was as tall and cold as a glacier rolling down a valley , crunching trees like matchsticks . |
| 30 | A later development was the combination of track circuiting , in which an electrical circuit is completed by the wheels of a train passing over a section of track , with ‘ lock and block ’ so that the electric-block instruments were controlled by the trains themselves and thus safety was doubly assured . |