Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all , a record 1,387 entries were submitted to the Editing for Industry Awards coming from throughout the United Kingdom , Europe , Africa , India , South east Asia and the United States . |
| 2 | Tiger Watson was wounded ; Donald Roy killing his friend 's attacker , for this was a personal battle of man against man in the shadows , even though at the same time there was the impersonal hammer from machine-guns and 20mm cannons firing from beyond the basin and its locks . |
| 3 | We thrive on layers ; a cashmere scarf here , a brocade waistcoat there , a cotton skirt peeking from beneath a denim one . |
| 4 | Martin Chuzzlewit returning from across the Atlantic Ocean is like one returning from the dead , a ghost ( the allusion is to the drowning of Pharaoh 's host in the Red Sea as described in Exod. 14 . |
| 5 | There 's still a bit of repair work going on on the M forty , that 's between junctions one and one A between Denham and the M twenty five , with the outside lane closed in both directions . |
| 6 | It saw a role for internal assessment ( internal to the school ) in helping to release the school curriculum from total control by examination syllabuses originating outside of the school . |
| 7 | There is thin plastic rod running from behind the switch onto the front of the machine straight into the power unit , presumably to avoid the usual tangle of wires . |
| 8 | The find comprises five busts of various Roman divinities , two handles in the shape of lionheads and three winged brass sea-leopards dating from around the second to the third century AD . |
| 9 | He was short and broad with a veined red face and reddish corkscrew curls sprouting from under a woollen cap . |