Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a soft groan , Rohan pulled her into his arms , holding her close against his body , the strong fingers stroking her hair with surprising gentleness . |
| 2 | The feel of his strong fingers enclosing her small palm came as something of a shock to her system . |
| 3 | A review of on-site fire protection equipment available for fighting fires in high-bay warehouses stating its advantages and disadvantages . |
| 4 | The biggest complaint was prison food , with just one in eight prisoners saying it was good . |
| 5 | Often , apprentice footballers refuse to sign professional forms seeing them , as one Midland youth put it , as ‘ bad risks ’ ; and young boxers would , in the pugilistic vernacular , ‘ swallow ’ before they had given their careers time to bloom — usually on the say-so of parents . |
| 6 | The most striking results were in Moscow , where candidates belonging to an umbrella organization of reformist groups and political clubs calling itself Democratic Russia won 55 of the capital 's 65 Supreme Soviet seats , and in Leningrad , where a comparable organization calling itself Democratic Elections " 90 won 28 of the city 's 34 Supreme Soviet seats ; both organizations also won control of their respective city soviets . |
| 7 | Many voluntary organisations depend heavily on those with technical , secretarial , accountancy , fund-raising , carpentry , building or professional skills giving their advice free of charge . |
| 8 | He entered her fiercely , her body and all her senses filled with him until , as before , the slumbering embers of the fire he had lit last night now blazed again , the raging flames consuming them both . |
| 9 | When the author of The Three Midshipmen reflected that his three heroes , supposed to be his former schoolfellows at ‘ dear old Eagle House ’ , had in a few years ‘ crossed swords with real red-capped or turbaned Mohammedans , fought with true Greek romantic pirates , hunted down slavers , and explored African rivers with voracious sharks watching their mouths , hungry crocodiles basking in their slimy shallows , and veritable negroes inhabiting their banks ’ , this rhodomontade , appealing to the eager youth of the mid-Victorian period , was entirely justified . |
| 10 | The biblical perspective of divine revelation is of God speaking at specific times addressing himself to particular situations . |
| 11 | The church was n't particularly old , built on a high tide of Victorian prosperity like the tall houses surrounding it . |
| 12 | In this context , regulations were , in the main , perceived not so much as serving the public interest but as representing ‘ capture ’ of the economic system by specific groups serving their own self-interest , reducing economic welfare and inhibiting economic development . |
| 13 | They 'd been re-used many times , titles and references and hasty notes making it difficult to see any sign of what the current contents might be . |
| 14 | She was conscious , as she marched angrily away , of his mocking eyes watching her as she made her escape . |
| 15 | Eight cars tracking us all this distance . |
| 16 | I told you , eight cars following us was too many for one outfit . |
| 17 | The methods adopted by these tenants ' associations were those of lobbying and persuasion and the issues they took up were specific grievances affecting their own members , not the problem of housing as it related to the political system in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | On the other side of the coin this year we have mainstream authors plying their trade in classic sf territory — Robert Harris and P D James to name two . |
| 19 | Zak waved , retreated and set off down the corridor , flat-footed almost at once after his bounce in the dining car , and already with drooping shoulders consulting his notebook about what he needed to do next . |
| 20 | I want to tell them I 'm going to Drama School , but I ca n't stand the look on their faces , the thought of their whining voices saying it 's not a suitable occupation for their darling daughter . ’ |
| 21 | The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ . |
| 22 | She had seen her three elder brothers enjoying their birthdays and being fussed over by their father , but neither her nor Patsy 's birthday had ever been celebrated . |
| 23 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 24 | The voting continued throughout Monday night , eight candidates putting themselves forward for the honour . |
| 25 | Only when they saw the hooded men with blood-covered knives approaching their cars did they realise what lay in store for them . |
| 26 | We would like to se the political parties commiting themselves to an overhaul of the sentencing process to make it more rational and civilised . |
| 27 | Two modern hotels at Willerby offer superior services over a large area , in addition to several public houses dispensing their brands of hospitality . |
| 28 | In order to streamline the decision-making council , the number of regional central banks would be reduced from the current figure of 11 to nine , with only Saxony among the five east German states having its own bank and some smaller west German Länder merging their regional banks with those of other states . |
| 29 | I remembered seeing pictures of German prisoners carrying what was described as their emergency Red Cross clothing in Tate and Lyle sugar boxes through London . |
| 30 | The savings on operating costs alone were immense , some experts putting it in the order of £2 million a year . |