Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many salespeople believe that the most efficient routing plan involves driving out to the furthest customer and , then zig-zagging back to home base . |
| 2 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 3 | ON Saturday 130 of Britain 's fastest kart racing drivers will take part in the Townparks Car Sales sponsored opening round of the British championships for gearbox driven machines . |
| 4 | Here the skilled operator establishes in her own consciousness a network of alarm signals which go off when the train of thought starts chugging along in a dangerous direction . |
| 5 | THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to royal biographer Andrew Morton . |
| 6 | THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to controversial royal biographer Andrew Morton . |
| 7 | So much so that many people internal to Digital never bother venturing out into the big bad world of USENET for their kicks . |
| 8 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 9 | I do n't know how or why it worked , but I stopped waking up in a cold sweat . |
| 10 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 11 | In the early 1970s , Spencer Stuart himself considered selling out to a general consulting business . |
| 12 | The Wire-haired Dachshund has a distinctive ‘ beard ’ which needs combing out on a daily basis . |
| 13 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 14 | But in many circuits , significant source and load resistances will need factoring out from the upper and lower arm values respectively ( and scaled pro-rata ) , otherwise the implied accuracy will be false ) . |
| 15 | The stunt — which involved jumping out of a hot air balloon attached to a piece of elastic — has never been attempted in Britain before . |
| 16 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 17 | With everyone that counts stacking up on the same side , only an optimist would fight for honesty . |
| 18 | The name of the game , ‘ Grandmother 's Footsteps ’ is already a hint : the young and fit creeping up on the old , the halt and the lame . |
| 19 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 20 | Rachel sank shaking on to the white sofa and buried her hot face in her hands . |
| 21 | Right , anything else that 's erm needs raising out of the last meeting ? |
| 22 | These advanced techniques involve partnering up with a fellow student and following a step-by-step routine of attack , defence and counter-attack . |
| 23 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 24 | The lesson , in my view is clear : neither to stand still and simply change leader ; nor , certainly , to go lurching back to the early 1980s , but to continue and intensify the process of change . |
| 25 | Janine took a deep breath and all the fears and worries inside her came tumbling out like a great canker that had finally burst . |
| 26 | A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below . |
| 27 | He had borrowed the ledger one night and read how a member of the Longford militia came galloping up on a foam-flecked horse to the doors of Carewscourt , yelling that the French and Irish had scattered Lake 's army to the four winds and that they were coming south and for everyone to flee , flee , flee if they valued their lives … . |
| 28 | But when the death coach came galloping out of the wild black sky to take Darby O'Gill to hell , it fairly put the fear of God in me ; more so than any clergyman before or since , however vivid their threats of eternal damnation . |
| 29 | The jockey 's race never stops … never stalls … so far this season Richard Dunwoody has had three hundred and sixty nine rides … he should be celebrating his century of winners any day … only one man can catch him and stop him and that 's Peter Scudamore … at Wincanton this week the reigning champion came galloping back with a winning treble … |
| 30 | Normally to be seen driving around in a funereal Daimler — dwarfing the island 's other cars ( including the BMW of Premier Sir John Swan ) — the Governor also dons his uniform and takes to the streets in a horse-drawn landau several times a year . |