Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After a short time working for his father he moved to a tool-making factory in Birmingham , where he took up bookmaking in a small way , by collecting bets on his motor bicycle . |
| 32 | However , although phase space volume on average contracts in a dissipative system , so that trajectories passing through a large volume of phase space end up passing through a smaller volume , this does not mean that distance ( or separation ) is also contracting . |
| 33 | Most hobbyists , however , usually end up investing in a rechargeable resin that is effective and easy to use ; the original and best-known resin cartridge is the Nitragon . |
| 34 | ‘ Highly talented designers end up working in a creative vacuum ’ |
| 35 | I 'll end up talking to a blank space — as usual ! ’ |
| 36 | But once the defector has been squeezed dry of all useful information he will end up sitting in a bare office in Dzerzhinsky Square , the KGB headquarters , with nothing to do but sift through material from his country . |
| 37 | ‘ I never thought I 'd end up working for a bossy woman . ’ |
| 38 | But no , The Day Leeds Won The Title they were n't there , apart from one fat bloke called Jimmy who 'd gone out hoping for a quiet drink … |
| 39 | You can perform relaxation exercises lying down but we would prefer if you try initially sitting in a comfortable armchair . |
| 40 | Do n't stand there grinning like a stuck pig … tell us . |
| 41 | I look awful , thought Daisy , particularly as Perdita , who 'd be expected to ride , looked absolutely ravishing in a dark blue shirt and white breeches . |
| 42 | He sits there sucking on a dead cheroot , staring at the board like he 's forgotten a phone number . |
| 43 | These redundancies are necessary if we are to maintain the business and carry on trading as a viable operation , ’ he said . |
| 44 | Murdoch McKillop , joint receiver from accountants Arthur Andersen , said the 1,600 job losses at the five UK plants had to made ‘ to maintain the business and carry on trading as a viable operation ’ . |
| 45 | Not only is there a lack of research evidence to support this view , but it has been argued that many children do better remaining in a single-parent family than in having to make further adjustments to a third form of family life — the step-family ( Richards and Dyson , 1982 ) . |
| 46 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 47 | After around 400yds a faint path doubles back heading past a low hill and Loch Coulavie . |
| 48 | The last thing she needed tonight was Victoria swanning around looking like a juvenile femme fatale . |
| 49 | ‘ Why are you standing there looking like a startled deer ? |
| 50 | Correct feeding means loose feeding with a so-called multiple particle bait , and in this category are maggots and casters . |
| 51 | The effects of war , however , could also prove potentially damaging in a new way as England became more closely involved with the wider economy in western Europe ; a slump in exports , even if this were due to factors outside English control , could lead to domestic unemployment , and in the 1520s complaints were made about this in the textile areas of Suffolk ( Ch.4 ) . |
| 52 | Appearing on the tape proved too much of a millstone for most bands and The Wedding Present were the only ones that carried on developing at a reasonable pace . |
| 53 | Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 . |
| 54 | It would appear they carried on trading from a different address some time beyond that date , though exactly when they stopped has yet to be established . |
| 55 | Either way he or she returns to disturb the heterosexual norm , especially in its masculine form , and does so according to a psychic and/or social dynamic which is intrinsically perverse : deviance emerges from the terms of its exclusion , eventually undermining that of which it was initially an effect , and which depended upon its exclusion . |
| 56 | Do I start tomorrow looking for a new paper , because the Echo ca n't be doing with a man who lacks the bloody human touch ? |
| 57 | Programme as to how the vendors intend to move forward linking to a definitive offer . |
| 58 | During the afternoon , while he sat idly chatting to a few men in the masons ' lean-to , James Menzies arrived , his brown horse soaked black . |
| 59 | It was not enough that Phoebe should turn up looking like a manual worker — ( 'But , for God 's sake , Maggie , I am a manual worker' ) — and wearing a button on her overalls which said ‘ This facility is under threat from rate-capping , ’ which made boys on buses make obscene jokes ; she also had to take on the maths teacher . |
| 60 | With processors galloping at 66MHz it means that there will be times when the processor is held back waiting for a slow peripheral to catch up . |