Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [art] big [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pausing to watch the big man stride away , his broad shoulders bent as though beneath a great weight , Tilly despaired that she could do nothing to help him . |
| 2 | Analysts briefed by IBM said that the company is seeking to rally a big show of support for the Workplace OS when it is launched , and that enhancements for both PC-DOS and OS/2 are in the works . |
| 3 | I remember my father saying earlier that we 're going to see a big television . |
| 4 | Half turning to adjust the big collar , her cheek brushed the back of his hand . |
| 5 | ‘ Bernard gave me four new tyres for my own car as payment but kept saying , ‘ I 'm going to open a big factory one day and have you as works ' manager ’ . ’ |
| 6 | In the coming month , I 'm going to surf the biggest wave ever seen . |
| 7 | ‘ They 've said they 're going to do a big media blitz for us at the end of this week . ’ |
| 8 | I was n't going to rush around buying horribly expensive things like smoke salmon that I could n't afford , I was going to do a big family feast and I was going to get in a few games like the monopoly or lotto or you know , I just , I have n't worked it out but I thought oh what fun |
| 9 | Tap , tap , tap , sparks flying everywhere and we were just above it with the cranes , waiting to fill the big ladles . |
| 10 | ‘ Right now , I 'm going to fill the big bowl with nice hot water and you are going to have a scrub and I want every bit of you to be clean , mind , including your hair . ’ |
| 11 | A World Apart was brilliant in its way but tightly focussed on a white mother and daughter ; Cry Freedom 's black scenes were much less convincing than its white , and descended into an adventure yarn ; while Mapantsula offered a portrait of a gangster without attempting to seize the big picture . |
| 12 | Now , I 've seen both sides and I do believe that Blackburn are going to present the bigger problem . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 'm not going to get a big head about it or anything . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , back at the ivory tower , lobby groups are busying themselves with the legal questions while waiting to get the big question answered ( i.e. why do people do it ? ) . |
| 15 | You 're going to have a big party tomorrow . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ This is going to have the biggest impact on the service industry where companies will not be undercut because everyone will have to pay the same . |
| 17 | Remember though , you can only do this in open water ; if there are snags around you can bet the bream will head for them , and there is no way you are going to stop a big bream on 2lb line . |
| 18 | The Stacker device driver is pretty big — 40Kb — and unless this can be loaded high , it 's going to take a big chunk of Conventional memory . |
| 19 | But I have to say for Shropshire , it means one I think , er , per year , and that 's not going to make a big dent . |
| 20 | ‘ Four clubs have asked me to play next season , and I 'm going to make a big effort to get fit again . |
| 21 | ‘ If INCUBUS is going to become the biggest organization in Europe , you 're going to have to hit it twenty-five hours a day . |
| 22 | Just as a player is often said to be struggling to justify a big fee . |
| 23 | ‘ Several of my friends went up yesterday , and were expecting to spearhead a big breakthrough . ’ |
| 24 | On April 29 , JS sponsored a lunch at Stationers ' Hall in the City of London held to honour the person identified by the horticultural industry as having made the biggest contribution to commercial horticulture in 1992 . |
| 25 | The probe problem is having had a big initial launch the reality is that we 're now going to drip feed the P R throughout the year and there are several good stories coming up which I 'm not gon na tell you er that we hope the , the national and local press will pick up on . |
| 26 | Now there was a theory in the south of England , that when one retired , for the first year , you dumped most of your lump sum into premium bonds on the hope of a big win , and then after the first year you invested it , you see , having taken the big win . |
| 27 | ‘ We'se goin' to have a big Carol Service in the church on Christmas Eve . |
| 28 | Frankie had hovered in the background , eager to cuddle the puppy but not daring to approach the bigger dogs . |
| 29 | JOHN SMITH is preparing to launch the biggest tax assault ever on middle income families while claiming that he does not know what the effect of his tax hike will be on incentives , confidence or on the economy . |
| 30 | Of course a real class defender can do all the thinking and playing to leave the big man to just climb all over the opposing centre-forward . |