Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |
| 2 | The dry slope was dotted with rabbits — some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes , others pushing farther down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed . |
| 3 | Entitled ‘ The Boy With The Thorn In His Side ’ , it saw Morrissey 's deliberately obvious autobiographical lyric sliding neatly over to flow from Marr 's continually inventive mind . |
| 4 | Depth is half the game in lock-picking ; the other half is getting enough leverage for the turn , since even a proper pick has no shaft going right through to rest on the end ward like a real key . |
| 5 | I 'd say what we can see is some of that heat surviving long enough to escape through a cave mouth , ’ she said to Ace . |