Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond the door , Mother Bombie 's feet in soft felt slippers could be heard slapping angrily down the stairs . |
| 2 | A way of starting in shallow water that involves stepping on to the board with the rig already in the sailing position . |
| 3 | I 'm not allowed to go jetting off to the Caribbean , that 's all . |
| 4 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 5 | This is not the moment to go toddling back to the office to fart about over some fine print in sub-clause seventy-nine with a bunch of anal-retentives from Accounts . ’ |
| 6 | He was breathless with the effort of clinging precariously to the limited footholds and it was time , he decided , to risk climbing down to the ground . |
| 7 | LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available . |
| 8 | Five hundred lines to anyone caught sneaking in before the bell ! ’ |
| 9 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 10 | An actress who found fame in a commercial for Volkswagen cars has been banned from driving after being caught speeding twice in the space of thirteen minutes . |
| 11 | The researcher stopped hanging on to the doorframe and stepped into the room . |
| 12 | She sensed that the barometer of their fraught relationship had plummeted to an all-time freeze and , at last , tormented beyond endurance , she stopped typing halfway through a schedule and went into his office . |
| 13 | The traditional Elancyl treatment involves the green massage glove containing Elancyl soap with ivy , which you can really enjoy using briskly in the bath or shower . |
| 14 | Exhilarated Ian wanted to try walking back without the balancing pole . |
| 15 | Ann-Marie Coombes was 16 when she crashed driving home from a pub . |
| 16 | She seemed very pleased with me , and finally she said , ‘ Would you enjoy living here in the palace , do you think ? ’ |
| 17 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 18 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 19 | They do most of the damage , knocking on doors , daub writing all over the place . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ I have enjoyed dressing up like a woman , making myself up and talking like them ever since I was in school . ’ |
| 21 | He stands looking straight at the judge as the clerk reads out his name and that of his co-defendant , Robert Lopez , who is charged with manslaughter and inflicting grievous bodily harm . |
| 22 | The heater matrix on the SIII commonly blocks up if it is used with hard water so it may need cleaning out by a radiator specialist or replacing as flushing with cleaning chemicals is not very effective . |
| 23 | ‘ Youre going home in a coma , home in a coma , youre going home in a coma ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Youre going home in a coma , home in a coma , youre going home in a coma ’ |
| 25 | Cos it starts going all over the place . |
| 26 | Spring is the time when everything starts growing again after the winter . |
| 27 | However , a tail-wheel is more convenient for ground handling , particularly as with these types of glider the tail is extremely heavy and awkward to lift when the glider needs turning around on the ground . |
| 28 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |
| 29 | I mean Cyprus has been one of the major growth destinations in the last year or so and erm people stopped going there from the day war broke out . |
| 30 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |