Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I do n't know how or why it worked , but I stopped waking up in a cold sweat . |
| 3 | In the early 1970s , Spencer Stuart himself considered selling out to a general consulting business . |
| 4 | The Wire-haired Dachshund has a distinctive ‘ beard ’ which needs combing out on a daily basis . |
| 5 | The stunt — which involved jumping out of a hot air balloon attached to a piece of elastic — has never been attempted in Britain before . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These advanced techniques involve partnering up with a fellow student and following a step-by-step routine of attack , defence and counter-attack . |
| 8 | Janine took a deep breath and all the fears and worries inside her came tumbling out like a great canker that had finally burst . |
| 9 | A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below . |
| 10 | 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 … . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Spackman is seen walking out of a black niche , his right leg forward , and the right hand holding the winding-sheet against the outer thigh ; underneath he wears an open shirt with broad cuffs from which the draw-strings have been released . |
| 14 | The Woman 's voice came swimming out of a great blankness , forcing itself on him . |
| 15 | Certainly Leicestershire 's team manager Jack Birkenshaw has no doubt about the credentials of the 27-year-old quickie , whose career took off when umpire Allan Jones , a former fast bowler himself , advised coming in off a straight rather than a curved run . |
| 16 | It had the swoop and the lilt of something one might have heard blaring out of a Turkish café . |
| 17 | Of course , it was all too immediate , though some of us kept diaries , ; now we select and interpret looking back from a different Personal life and a very different political time . ) |
| 18 | He began hanging out at a seedy bar where transvestites , gay guys in leather jackets , and even butch lesbians , would lay him across a table and then crawl all over him . |
| 19 | Sweets were produced and I remember going around with a bandaged head for a day or so . |
| 20 | AFTER the débâcle with Norman and Henrietta , Minton began dashing around like a hunted person . |
| 21 | On The Woman I Am , Chaka takes control again and , while the arrangements struggle to fill every available space with drum patterns and horn fills , she keeps swooping in like a dive-bombing seagull and forcing songs and producers into submission . |
| 22 | Not because she could n't lose weight but because she enjoyed coming along for a weekly work-out session and it helped to keep her weight in check . |
| 23 | He requires covering up in a strongly-run race to utilise his formidable finishing acceleration to maximum effect , and connections have taken the precaution of declaring a pacemaker in Wharf . |
| 24 | Have you ever thought what sort of a picture you 'll make coming up before a prospective employer ? |
| 25 | Whilst the lawyers were still sorting out his mothers estate he started looking round for a suitable business . |
| 26 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 27 | As might be expected , how useful the process of review is in proposing changes , and the extent to which teachers favoured going on to a second round of the scheme are both significant , those thinking that it is very or fairly useful being slightly positive and those thinking it not very or not at all useful , being slightly negative . |
| 28 | If , rather than face unemployment , you would at least be prepared to consider staying on with a reduced salary or a lower level of seniority , you should make that clear . |
| 29 | Only the Russians and some German Social Democrats keep banging on about a neutral Germany . |
| 30 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |