Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are a reasonably good rider and can get experienced help , you may enjoy bringing on a just broken four-year old — though youngsters with potential ( whether obvious or in the current owner 's imagination ) can carry big price tags . |
| 2 | Paul went on his way in rising anger , fearful of bringing on a bad head by it . |
| 3 | For surely someone as gifted as that deserved all that could be done for him : and ‘ the gift ’ put it above any gossip about an overkeen schoolmaster bringing on a bright pupil and overrode any chatter about the besotted nature of his devotion . |
| 4 | Dadda only smoked when he was contented and then he would get through forty or fifty a day , bringing on a cough and staining his fingers yellow-brown . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ he said finally , helping her to walk with Matey 's assistance , ‘ I have heard of the ladies ’ sewing circle accused of many things , but never of bringing on a swoon . |
| 6 | The F T Associates which is er includes the Economist in Spain was up a lot and Westminster Press was er was down , but of course Westminster Press took a major redundancy charge , they were also bringing on a new plant at Brighton and therefore running two plants simultaneously which is very costly er and they launched on Sunday . |
| 7 | The various fusion machines that a had been built were producing neutrons-supposedly a sign that fusion was taking place but the neutrons had nothing to do with thermonuclear reactions . |
| 8 | As she glared at him , he continued , ‘ So get used to the fact that , if you plan on staying on here , you will unfortunately be seeing rather a lot of me . |
| 9 | Ross 's experience struck an identical chord with me , for John Sheard and I had exactly the same experience on the first ascent of Face Route where the second , hanging on a sling to remove gear , was observed by a member of the establishment and a rumour immediately started that was rapidly translated into guidebook writer 's ‘ fact ’ . |
| 10 | Of course he had the sense to hurry when she was hanging on a line from New York . |
| 11 | His Dad kept it hanging on a nail in the shed and he 'd have noticed right away if it was missing . |
| 12 | They insisted she had insulted counter girls after she had been refused discount on a slinky black evening dress which she saw hanging on a rail in the fashionable Hyper Hyper clothes store in London 's Kensington High Street . |
| 13 | In its varied type-faces , its symbols of mourning — lilies , the reaping sickle , the portrait photograph framed in lines as if hanging on a wall — and its verses from Longfellow , this seemed an almost Victorian celebration of death . |
| 14 | The man went to a jacket hanging on a nail in the corner , and Produced a used envelope with pencilled writing on the outside . |
| 15 | He took a handkerchief from the pocket of his trousers which were still hanging on a hook behind him . |
| 16 | Through the side window he could see his grey garments and underwear hanging on a small washing line outside . |
| 17 | Intruders frequently find the spare keys all neatly hanging on a keyboard : front door , back door , garage and car keys . |
| 18 | Massingham walked over to Berowne 's jacket hanging on a hook at the back of the door and felt in the two outer and one inner pockets . |
| 19 | There was a gas boiler , comparatively modern , mounted above a deep square porcelain sink much stained and with a clean but crumpled tea towel hanging on a hook beside it . |
| 20 | N : Looking at my nappies hanging on a washing line in our kitchen |
| 21 | Second , hanging on a peg is a black robe with a monogrammed ‘ D ’ which , if put on by anyone other than Drachenfels himself , wraps itself about the unfortunate wearer and attacks with tiny mouths in its lining ; it gets 2D6 Attacks at S 2 each round . |
| 22 | She checks her appearance in a mirror hanging on a tree . |
| 23 | There 's an apron hanging on a nail . |
| 24 | The pair of travellers slept in a somewhat makeshift room , where a woman 's dress hanging on a rope acted as a partition between two beds . |
| 25 | A few days later we passed the desiccated corpse of another brigand hanging on a gibbet beside the track . |
| 26 | As was quite normal in those days Robert Burrows kept a strap hanging on a hook at the end of the dining table . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're presuming rather a lot , ’ the Doctor pointed out , ‘ from a heap of crumbled ruins . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ He had experience in administering effectively a large public museum ; he has demonstrated skills in fund-raising ; and thirdly , we get the bulk of our annual budget from Congress , and Rusty got the bulk of his budget ( $15 million a year ) from the Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles and showed great skill in dealing with them . |
| 29 | BSL therefore stores story information and re-tells it in a way which would occur for all languages , but spoken language surface structure ( reflecting only a specific point in time and context ) would tend to hide this in its effort for reconstruction of meaning . |
| 30 | He further let it be known — in the most careless way imaginable , like a good gun bringing down a bird without breaking a conversational flow — that he was a bachelor , a man of wealth , a friend of the Prime Minister and , in an amiable manner , on the lookout for a secure investment in matrimony . |