Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun prp] [conj] [noun] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winds of late October were lashing Haverfordwest as Leonora left the train . |
| 2 | Helping Jane and Maurice to follow the course of true love ( along paths smooth and not so smooth ) — will be three of the Province 's leading musicians — Rod McVey ( keyboards ) , Nollaig Casey ( fiddle ) , and Neil Martin ( uilleann pipes and cello ) . |
| 3 | The canal and railways serving Par and Newquay acquired an additional importance with the growth of the working of china clay in the moorland between them . |
| 4 | Rain saw they were still to go on pretending Foucard and Denis understood no English . |
| 5 | Prior to the Iraq coup in mid-1958 the route had skirted hostile Arab air-space to the north by overflying Turkey and Iraq to reach the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean . |
| 6 | In a similar vein , the Biarritz men described the heroic feats of resident English flanker Richard Pool-Jones , of Cambridge University and Barbarians , in helping Blanco and co. reach the Parc des Princes as ‘ Divine Justice ’ — as atonement for his countrymen 's unceremonious treatment of Serge in the World Cup . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , there 's more than one flat for rent in London , is n't there ? ’ their father chipped in to declare , and then , with a fond look at his wife , ‘ And if there is n't , my dear — well , I 'm sure , for such a good cause , we could consider letting Leith and Sebastian have the inheritance from their grandfather before they 're twenty-five . ’ |
| 8 | This force , unlike its predecessors , captured sizeable towns , and in reaching Wilton and Wallingford penetrated a considerable distance inland . |
| 9 | There were reports that international relief organizations had vastly over-estimated the number of refugees fleeing Kuwait and Iraq following the outbreak of hostilities on Jan. 16-17 . |