Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] and [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I attended my father 's prep school where I was one of the worst-behaved pupils , constantly talking after lights-out and fooling around in class . |
| 2 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 3 | It 's debatable whether PGA is the best golf game , but it 's certainly the easiest to get into without the fuss of reading pages of instructions and swatting up on the physics of the humble golf ball . |
| 4 | The King is seen exchanging an earthly crown for a crown of thorns and looking up towards a heavenly crown |
| 5 | Despite a world recession and a double-figure percentage decline in visitors to the American Disney parks , the company 's spending , maintenance of standards and rolling out of new projects that ‘ give folks good reasons to come back ’ , is prodigious . |
| 6 | I 'll bet , ’ he added , ‘ that for all your years of book-learning you know nothing about strapping on a pair of waders and getting out into the stream , feeling the water swirl around you — or how to bait a hook — ’ He pulled a small plastic box towards him . |
| 7 | It 's dependent on the purposeful pulling of triggers and setting off of bombs . |
| 8 | In the newly emerging cities this meadow was symbolized in the Broletto , even after the communes had taken all powers in the making of laws and handing out of justice away from the church . |
| 9 | ‘ Sure , ’ he said , moving a pile of paperbacks and sitting down in my fake Bauhaus leather and steel chair ( one of a set , of one ) . |
| 10 | ‘ All that sitting behind desks and riding around in tube trains … it 's not good for you . |
| 11 | Some stories tell of botos coming up underneath canoes and taking off with the paddles , leaving a lone canoeist adrift on the river , while at other times the dolphin is said to have saved the lives of people from a capsized boat . |
| 12 | It is surprising just how the cost of everything involved with interviews and settling down in your first fob can add up . |
| 13 | If people are leaving severed heads in fonts and monkeying about with regimental relics after hours they 'd need keys and naturally it 's awkward for Charles if … ’ |
| 14 | I can hear them , the voices , I can feel the terror of flying up at fifty miles an hour and crashing my skull against that hard rock — CRASH ! — and my brains all spilling out in pieces and spraying round like sparks after a firework has exploded and floating down to the floor of the cave below … |
| 15 | For over a year she had been cutting out coupons from magazines and sending off for make-up samples that she had kept hidden in a small suitcase in the boathouse ; since her grandmother 's death she had brought them indoors and experimented openly , primping all day long , leaving streaks of grease everywhere , on the table cloth , on the bathroom shelves . |
| 16 | You could see them struggling for answers and coming up with nothing at all . |
| 17 | By now they were in among thickening crowds of people , nodding to acquaintances and looking out for their own key men from down the valley . |
| 18 | Er about drugs and going back to the drugs , you mentioned about valium and problems |
| 19 | Interested nurses may be invited to an informal gathering over coffee , or to a structured recruitment day addressed by speakers and rounding off with an open session devoted to local job vacancies . |
| 20 | The once ‘ Wonderful Wallabies ’ are weary of touring , depleted by injuries and running out of gas . |