Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subject : ‘ Youre going home in a Swedish Ambulance ’ |
| 2 | Half of these mothers said they smacked only in anger ; the remainder used smacking deliberately as a disciplinary technique . |
| 3 | Who else has got their work needs putting away in a large drawer ? |
| 4 | I hope that local education authorities will have learnt some valuable lessons from this year 's experience and that they will take great care to consider what contingency plans are needed to avoid being caught napping again by a late rush of applicants . |
| 5 | Unless the heart starts beating again within a few minutes the person will die , and in fifty per cent of all fatal heart attacks the victim dies within thirty minutes . |
| 6 | She bit her lip , the significance of what she was seeing sinking home like a jagged knife between her ribs . |
| 7 | As Ryker came careering into the kitchen , Julie threw back the cellar hatch and came hurtling forth like a maddened trap-door spider , brandishing the hammer . |
| 8 | I CAN NOT remember looking forward to a Tory conference with such relish . |
| 9 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 10 | yes , I should n't mind going away in a few weeks , if , if |
| 11 | ‘ He just wanted to play cricket , ’ said Stanworth , ‘ and did n't mind coming straight from a full house at Leicester to a second team game at Southport . |
| 12 | We began flying together in a Raven flew-wing microlight that we owned , and spent two very happy years flying around Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire in her . |
| 13 | ITALIANS began voting yesterday in a general election billed as one of the most decisive for decades . |
| 14 | He strode to the counter and began talking earnestly with a burly man dressed in white house-painter 's overalls . |
| 15 | At eight he began working part-time on a local farm , and three years later left school to go there full-time . |
| 16 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
| 17 | Planning a display does n't mean sticking rigidly to a formal design . |
| 18 | ‘ did loiter ( or solicit ) ’ Loiter means passing frequently at a slow speed ( Williamson v Wright 1924 SLT 363 ) . |
| 19 | The result of such a mishap is often spectacular with the eighty h.p. engine trying to wind the rubber bow back to the stern , but on this occasion the engine quickly stalled and I was left drifting helplessly in a strong wind with rope from the outboard propeller stretching from stern to bow in an inaccessible position . |
| 20 | She should have laughed and snuggled and taken kissing only as a passing pleasure . |
| 21 | Adam ran crashing downhill in a narrow dark ride , almost into the arms of a man who came striding suddenly out of the bushes , sword in hand . |
| 22 | Scheer continued steaming westward for a further 20 minutes ; and then , for reasons never adequately explained , turned cast again . |
| 23 | Earth was sent flying upwards in a dirty wall as the wheels spun on the damp ground ; puddles of water at the roadside splattered up the sides of the vehicles . |
| 24 | His ambition was to ‘ continue moving forward in a positive way ’ and he ‘ hoped that THE FACE would ask him in ten years ’ time what he was doing ’ |
| 25 | Korea 's Samsung will start doing so in a few weeks . |
| 26 | One , the director of education has now got , and his staff , have now got to accept that they are no barriers to prevent moving forward on a linked , a form of linked centres . |
| 27 | At last they emerged and stood breathing hard in a vast open space , the roof dim and distant above their heads . |
| 28 | The driver stood leaning negligently against a front wing , rolling himself a cigarette . |