Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [coord] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eyewitnesses indicate that ‘ the couple spent three hours laughing and cuddling at a Melbourne nightclub . ’ |
| 2 | Leonard spent hours walking and cycling around the neighbourhood looking for it . |
| 3 | Katya , his sister , took his arm , pointing to the live crabs wriggling and pinching in a mesh basket . |
| 4 | They heard its steps clattering and fading in the distance . |
| 5 | Alexei signalled to one of the engine tenders , and the man fiddled with the levers so that the rods rising and falling at the top of the funnel slowed jerkily and then stopped . |
| 6 | Two hundred yards away a group of about fifteen seladang were visible , the calves frisking and sporting around the cows that had borne them . |
| 7 | Its accomplishment is as much pictorial as musical , its images dissolving and recombining in a strange and haunting manner , In the piece there is no narrative and the character of Einstein appears playing the violin ( one of the physicist 's hobbies ) . |
| 8 | As they sway and raise their arms , he sees thirty pairs of large breasts and he imagines the same quantity of round thighs rolling and separating under the cassocks which he has had sent from Raleigh . |
| 9 | At first we could see nothing , our eyes hurting and smarting at the strain as well as the biting night air . |
| 10 | That strange zone of time and light between day and night is broken only by bats wheeling and diving across the expanse of the East Coast main line . |
| 11 | The Hilliard Ensemble marks the quincentenary here with two distinct discs , one of works by composers associated with the courts of Ferdinand and Isabella , and other of music by Hispanic musicians living and working in the New World . |
| 12 | I am a standard , no-frills Earthling , but Goodney , in his white suit , suntan and sliding blond hair , stood out like a pink elephant among the sin-sick funeral directors lurking and cruising against the blood-coloured walls . |
| 13 | Save The Children helps youngsters living and working on the streets , it runs schools where the poorest can get hot meals and lessons . |
| 14 | He stared at it , puzzled , deciding it was pulsating , with red lines swelling and diminishing in the self-same rhythm ; tentacles that throbbed with the heart beat of the central creature . |
| 15 | Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river . |
| 16 | Owen stumbled behind him , his feet sliding and tripping on the loose stones . |
| 17 | However , there have been times in the recent past when 50 per cent of the artists selling and succeeding in the USA have been British . |
| 18 | The wait in the ironmonger 's and the noises of cars and motor bikes turning and revving in the street worsened the pressure at the back of his neck so that as he finally got the machine into his van and thought of the relief of reaching home and doing the mowing , black tadpoles shot across his vision , zigzagging through all dimensions . |
| 19 | Example 2:16 Exceptions and reservations Excepting and reserving to the landlord : ( 1 ) Easement rights and privileges over the demised property corresponding to those expressly granted to the tenant over the other parts of the building ( 2 ) The right to build on develop deal with use any adjoining or neighbouring property retained by the landlord in such manner as he thinks fit even though the amenity of the demised property or the access of light or air thereto may be lessened thereby and without making any compensation to the tenant ( 3 ) The right at reasonable times and on reasonable notice ( except in emergency ) to enter the demised property for the purposes of ( i ) inspecting the condition and state of repair thereof ; ( ii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) for which the landlord or the tenant is liable under this lease ( iii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) to any property adjoining the demised property or to any party structure sewer drain or other thing used by the tenant in common with others ( iv ) measuring testing or valuing the demised property ( including the right to take samples of materials and to open up parts of the demised property which would otherwise be inaccessible ) but making good any damage caused by such an entry ( 4 ) The right for the landlord and the other tenants of the building to pass through the demised property in case of fire or other emergency Example 2:17 Definition of service pipes ' " service pipe " means any pipe , drain , sewer , flue , duct , gutter , wire , cable , optic fibre , conduit , channel or other means of passage or transmission of water , soil , gas , air , smoke , electricity , light , information or other matter and all ancillary equipment or structures |
| 20 | " Capital sum " for these purposes has the same meaning as in s677. ( b ) Associated payments In relation to any capital sum paid to the settlor by a body corporate the expression " associated payment " means : ( i ) any capital sum paid to that body by the trustees of the settlement ; and ( ii ) any other sum paid or asset transferred to that body by those trustees which is not paid or transferred for full consideration in money or money 's worth being a sum paid or asset transferred in the five years ending or beginning with the date on which the capital sum is paid to the settlor ( s678(3) ) . |
| 21 | You should be an experienced dinghy sailor ( regularly sails with inexperienced crews ) who has also spend at least six days living and sailing in a small sailing cruiser . |
| 22 | They spend their days shouting and screaming in the cell , and then they are finally let out . |
| 23 | He could imagine her posed , mouth moistly open , hips jutting and staring at the cameras with that apparently obligatory look of arrogant resentment . |
| 24 | Behind them the massed troops of the Caliph , their battle cries rising and falling like a demoniac chorus . |
| 25 | This causes problems eating and drinking to the extent that I am now too embarrassed to go to restaurants , or even to my local pub . |
| 26 | Members are appointed by the President from those considered to ‘ have knowledge or experience of conditions in the area and to be representative of persons living or working in the area ’ ( Social Security Act 1975 , Sched. 10 , para. ( 2 ) ) . |
| 27 | With stories swirling and strengthening about a clutch of leading shares and Wall Street striding to new peaks , the index was down only 4.1 points at the close . |
| 28 | Mary would work like a slave , but a woman could not take the animals to market , though he knew of widows living alone , soldiers ' wives mostly , who farmed on in a rough way by themselves , their cattle straying and mixing with the herds of others , their oats still standing in November … |
| 29 | Rachaela looked out at the dusk on the snow street , and the snow piled up against the walls , the pedestrians slipping and sidling along the ice . |
| 30 | 210 In all cases between landlord and tenant , as often as it shall happen that one half year 's rent shall be in arrear , and the landlord or lessor , to whom the same is due , hath right by law to re-enter for the non-payment thereof , such landlord or lessor shall and may , without any formal demand or re-entry , serve a writ in ejectment for the recovery of the demised premises , which service shall stand in the place and stead of a demand and re-entry ; and in case of judgment against the defendant for non-appearance , if it shall be made appear to the court where the said action is depending , by affidavit , or be proved upon the trial in case the defendant appears , that half a year 's rent was due before the said writ was served , and that no sufficient distress was to be found on the demised premises , countervailing the arrears then due , and that the lessor had power to re-enter , then and in every such case the lessor shall recover judgment and execution , in the same manner as if the rent in arrear had been legally demanded , and a re-entry made ; and in case the lessee or his assignee , or other person claiming or deriving under the said lease , shall permit and suffer judgment to be had and recovered on such trial in ejectment , and execution to be executed thereon , without paying the rent and arrears , together with full costs , and without proceeding for relief in equity within six months after such execution executed , then and in such case the said lessee , his assignee , and all other persons claiming and deriving under the said lease , shall be barred and foreclosed from all relief or remedy in law or equity , other than by bringing error for reversal of such judgment , in case the same shall be erroneous , and the said landlord or lessor shall from thenceforth hold the said demised premises discharged from such lease ; provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to bar the right of any mortgagee of such lease , or any part thereof , who shall not be in possession , so as such mortgagee shall and do , within six months after such judgment obtained and execution executed pay all rent in arrear , and all costs and damages sustained by such lessor or person entitled to the remainder or reversion as aforesaid , and perform all the covenants and agreements which , on the part and behalf of the first lessee , are and ought to be performed . |