Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath .
2 Later , as a result of other movements in the rocks , fissures opened up in the slowly solidifying granite .
3 ( Look back to the supposedly liberalising 1981 Contempt of Court Act and ask yourself whether its parliamentary proponents intended the general outcome that Lord Donaldson now proclaims ) .
4 ( Look back to the supposedly liberalising 1981 Contempt of Court Act and ask yourself whether its parliamentary proponents intended the general outcome that Lord Donaldson now proclaims ) .
5 Then she went through and threw herself on the comfortable cool silk bedcover , and lay in luxury , gazing up at the gently rotating white fan .
6 Will Douglas ordered Scott of Rankilburn to go back to the now blazing village , the cottage thatches burning readily , and round up a crowd of men , women and children .
7 The longing and impatience to be privatised , so as to be able to invest freely to keep up in a rapidly evolving public telecommunications world , is evident in every pronouncement from Deutsche Bundespost Telecom .
8 As the demand for cotton goods rose ( partly owing to economic growth caused by advances in agricultural techniques and extended foreign trade ) cotton production shifted from the putting-out system to mills being set up in the rapidly urbanising towns .
9 Such concentration of attention is usually , though not always , brought about by an immediately preceding textual mentioning of the discourse subject .
10 Today the old-fashioned kind of graft mostly gets stamped on by a fiercely nit-picking bureaucracy .
11 The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway .
12 The fact that they tapped in to the rapidly expanding European market undoubtedly helped the giant US firms to offset some of the effects of slow domestic growth .
13 Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke , he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time .
14 Today , Sartre 's voluntarism is to some extent returning to favour as the result of a desire to retrieve the categories of agency and the subject , which goes together with the wish to get out of the apparently totalizing systems of Adorno , Althusser or Foucault .
15 Its diminished stature is mainly due to its continuing economic difficulties and its inability so far to break out of an increasingly stultifying dependence on Soviet aid and trade subsidies .
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