Example sentences of "an [noun] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day we spent an hour watching a barge crane lift an H-shaped concrete frame from the bottom of the harbour . |
| 2 | RSPCA inspectors found him after combing the area for an hour following a tip off . |
| 3 | And true enough , after an afternoon weaving a poem back on to the frayed ends of a loom of broken rhymes , I had leapt up and punched the air with determination . |
| 4 | Any nurse may encounter an adoptee experiencing a crisis of self-identity at any age , and may be able to offer support simply by listening or may have to recommend the adoptee seek expert help from the local adoption agency , PAC or National Organisation for Counselling Adoptees and their Parents ( NORCAP ) for counselling about being adopted and practical information on instigating a search for birth parents . |
| 5 | A gold sword hilt from the temple at Mallia shows an acrobat performing a back somersault ( Figure 29 ) ; perhaps , as Professor Alexiou suggests ( undated , p. 49 ) , in reality this feat was performed over the self-same sword planted in the ground , point upwards . |
| 6 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 7 | A PARLIAMENTARY candidate has called for an investigation into why there was a delay in an ambulance reaching a woman who died after plunging from a window . |
| 8 | An instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing , executed by or on behalf of the appointer and shall be in the following form ( or in a form as near thereto as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the Directors may approve ) : — |
| 9 | An instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing , executed by or on behalf of the appointer and shall be in the following form ( or in a form as near thereto as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the Directors may approve ) : — |
| 10 | Experts may offer some guidance but from a plaintiff 's point of view it is far better to frame an action using a subsection of s.92 other than s.92(1) ( c ) or ( d ) if at all possible . |
| 11 | Nina turned the fragments of food on her plate with all the delicacy of an archaeologist lifting a shard on to a trowel . |
| 12 | The world fell in for the hard-working TV star and his family as he drove home alone after an engagement opening a carpet store in the Midlands . |
| 13 | On the salver was an ice-bucket cooling a bottle of champagne and two long fluted glasses . |
| 14 | For this reason the House of Lords held that in certain cases an applicant for a declaration or an injunction should not have a choice of procedure : in certain cases it would be and ‘ abuse of the process of the court ’ for an applicant seeking a declaration or an injunction to proceed otherwise than by way of an AJR under Ord. 53 . |
| 15 | Rather , she proposed the establishment of an institution resembling a convent where women might study and develop themselves spiritually . |
| 16 | It does not follow , though , that an institution offering a course of study should be conducting research in that topic . |
| 17 | The study found that 89 per cent of all companies interviewed provide assistance for an employee buying a home in the new location . |
| 18 | The ensemble gave her a slinky , model-like elegance and made her feel like an actress playing a part … a nightclub scene , probably … instead of her normal self . |
| 19 | He nudged me like an urchin planning a prank . |
| 20 | An electron encircling a nucleus is continuously subject to acceleration as its velocity keeps on changing direction . |
| 21 | properly will depend on either the specific instructions given to him or arguments about the implied duties of an expert conducting a reference : for three possible examples , see 14.8 , 14.9 and 14.10. a breach of the implied duty under s14 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 , unless there is a specific time provision or the duty has been expressly excluded by agreement with the parties . |
| 22 | The combination is ideal for an expert taking a holiday with a novice . |
| 23 | Perhaps the greatest value is in studying pictures of an expert doing a manoeuvre , since from these the positioning can be clearly examined . |
| 24 | He included Nina in his coat , an angel wrapping a child in its wings . |
| 25 | The contest , staged at Granby Hall in Leicester , attracted a sell-out crowd of 5,000 , and topped the bill during an evening featuring a number of kick-boxing clashes . |
| 26 | Spend a day in the tropical forest of South America , turning over logs , looking beneath bark , sifting through the moist litter of leaves , followed by an evening shining a mercury lamp on a white screen , and one way and another you will collect hundreds of different kinds of small creatures . |
| 27 | When a new drug arrives in a society , it is like an infant taking a screwdriver to a clock . |
| 28 | This is characterised by the perception of an author requiring a reader to make an effort in reading , but the text is seen to be maximally facilitating the search for coherence . |
| 29 | Whoever heard of an Englishman touring a Warsaw Pact country on his own ? |
| 30 | Sonia Sutcliffe , the wife of the Yorkshire Ripper , lost her libel case against the News of the World newspaper , over an article alleging a holiday affair with a Greek businessman . |