Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to this time , the early seventies , there was no real precedent for autonomous women 's groups organizing around a woman-only issue . |
| 2 | Activities drawing together staff and governors from several schools reduce the tendency for cut throat competition and encourages collaboration in joint policies and alliances to bring pressure on resource providers for a better service . |
| 3 | He told Rufus to drive a bit more slowly and this time he spotted the six-foot-wide gap in the hedge with , on the right-hand side , almost hidden by cow parsley growing up and elderflowers hanging down , the wooden box on legs with its hinged lid into which Hilbert's-mail and newspapers and milk had been delivered . |
| 4 | Among the sea anemones sticking limply to the rocks exposed at low tide , there are , almost everywhere in the world , rather different lumps of jelly . |
| 5 | times He 'll have good times Goin' oot on the randan But |
| 6 | Except for the hilliest areas and the West Country more generally , pack animals had dwindled by 1800 with road improvements bringing even relatively remote places into the expanding network of timetabled stage-wagon services . |
| 7 | The commission has responsibility for appointing auditors for local authorities using either the District Auditor service or auditors from the private sector . |
| 8 | A train puffed steadily across the bridge as spouts and plumes of water stalked up the middle channel towards it from the sticks of bombs raining down . |
| 9 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 10 | Perhaps there used to be er erm a lot of hot cross er buns hanging down . |
| 11 | Talk about necks sticking out … |
| 12 | French doctors have treated dozens of patients in minutes using only a local anaesthetic . |
| 13 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 14 | She was in there for a good five minutes crashing around and swearing occasionally . |
| 15 | Surface Processes in Ion Etching : Reactive ion etching of metals and semiconductors used in integrated circuit technology ; Study of the ion surface interactions using ultra high vacuum surface sensitive techniques which include ESCA and SIMS . |
| 16 | They had lunch in the parlour , a dreary room with slippery , brown leather chairs , a harmonium against one wall , and a case of dead , stuffed birds hanging on another . |
| 17 | Thomas Baskerville , who saw it in the 1680s , called it ‘ Paradise Restored , for here you find large streets , fair built houses , fine women , and many coaches rattling about , and their shops full of merchantable goods ’ . |
| 18 | Few hats hanging on OSF/1 peg |
| 19 | The usual assumption is that sex is a definable and universal experience , like the desire for food , with the minority or unorthodox forms filtering off into distributaries , which may , or more usually may not , be navigated by the conscientious explorer . |
| 20 | Then a man with more than a few hairy £10 notes sticking out of his ears said , " We 'll build a factory there , and another one over his hill here . |
| 21 | A third party is ‘ foreign to an instrument , its consequences and all the rules deriving therefrom . ’ |
| 22 | I noticed with amusement that the tapestries hanging there illustrated the seven deadly sins . |
| 23 | Yet exactly the same trait , if too high , can disrupt and disable , in some cases bringing about the symptoms of anxiety neurosis . |
| 24 | If he could root back through the maze of moment and incident , would he find premonitory signs sticking out like dire figurations of chicken entrails ? |
| 25 | So he 's retired into the kitchen , of all places , and we 're having to feed him people to meet one by one , like birds bringing back food for their young . ’ |
| 26 | They encountered taverns with painted signs hanging outside , and shops with their wares displayed in the windows . |
| 27 | They moved on again with the river coursing slowly in the growing light beside them and the birds darting out in front of their horses ' knees . |
| 28 | ‘ What , stop perverts hanging around ? |
| 29 | The bus rocked and skidded to a halt ; a horse-drawn delivery van close behind them swerved violently — the horse reared , its front hooves lashing wildly in thin air — someone screamed , the frightened horse whinnied and plunged and Mabel , struck down by flying hooves , lay motionless upon the roadway as one wheel of the van ran over her breast , and her life 's blood dribbled away into the gutter . |
| 30 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |