Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Ann-Marie Coombes was 16 when she crashed driving home from a pub . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I have enjoyed dressing up like a woman , making myself up and talking like them ever since I was in school . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Youre going home in a coma , home in a coma , youre going home in a coma ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Youre going home in a coma , home in a coma , youre going home in a coma ’ |
| 8 | He was the sort of man who , when caught riding up in a lift in Rio 's rather staid and old-fashioned Copacabana Palace Hotel with a lady whose skin was some forty shades darker than Alexander 's own pink and cream , told a desk clerk who remonstrated that ‘ ladies ’ were not allowed in guest bedrooms , ‘ What do you mean by ‘ ladies ’ ? |
| 9 | And if they think your problem needs sorting out by a doctor , they will recommend that you go to see one . |
| 10 | This will remove any possibility of bloom in the first year , but it will concentrate the plant 's mind on good long stems which will need tying in to a support like a pergola or arch to show next year 's bloom to best advantage . |
| 11 | She was attacked coming home from a dance and nearly killed . ’ |
| 12 | Apparently it had been reported hopping about in a car park close to the village . |
| 13 | He 's done all the work at the scene — all anyone can do — and then he has to cool his heels with the rest of us , waiting for God 's gift to forensic pathology to come screaming up with a police escort and break the news to us that what we all thought was a corpse is — surprise , surprise indeed a corpse , and that we can safely move the body . " |
| 14 | To come tripping through without a by-your-leave ? |
| 15 | Dyson half expected him to come jerking back for a reprise of the First Collect . |
| 16 | CHRIS EUBANK could n't help himself — the words of tribute to Michael Watson came tumbling out in a torrent , a year to the Saturday since he put the brave Londoner into a coma . |
| 17 | It was a time when a bare ankle could not be shot stepping out of a robe for the implication would be ‘ nakedness ’ , the consequence ‘ sex ’ and the inevitable result — the destruction of the nation . |
| 18 | In all of this Ho Chi Minh is to be seen bobbing about like a cork on the tides of international communism , sometimes lost from sight for long periods , surviving life in Stalin 's Russia and the manifest uncertainties of the purges and , when war broke out , still remaining as an experienced if not entirely successful figure in the communist world and a distant although still immanent leader of Vietnamese communism . |
| 19 | Later that evening , in a town many miles north of Weatherbury , a small white shape could be seen walking slowly along a path beside a large building . |
| 20 | Aunt Margaret was as fragile as the first white shoots put trembling out by a bulb kept in a pot in a dark airing-cupboard . |
| 21 | They challenged a man who was seen acting suspiciously at a horses ' rest home near their RAF base . |
| 22 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 23 | He is generally featured peering languidly into a pool , however divests the situation of its seriousness by considering his metamorphosis . |
| 24 | A woman with a blond plait was seen getting out of a car with a man near the canal upstream of Sharpness . |
| 25 | There again er there was smoke seen coming out of a bedroom , so we first of all informed base again , that there 's a fire , in a flat , secondly we did was break down the door . |
| 26 | He was seen doing so by a policeman and arrested , but it was held by the Divisional Court that he should not have been convicted , since on those facts ( even accepting that the conduct was insulting ) no breach of the peace was likely . |
| 27 | When a larger group came tramping in behind a piper , Cameron and Menzies recognized some stalwarts from Foss on Tummel . |
| 28 | After five minutes the decision was made for them : they were jumped by six D-Vs which came dropping out of a stretch of dirty cloud . |
| 29 | As the shadows lengthen , the men can be seen standing around with a pint of beer in hand , while mothers keep watchful eyes on the kids and catch up on the latest gossip . |
| 30 | On four other occasions Eubank was to be seen covering up under a hail of blows , but like so much of the 26-year-old from Brighton 's act , it was an illusion . |