Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room will be furnished with tatami ( mats ) for walking over in bare feet or socks/tights and seating is on zabuton ( large cushions ) . |
| 2 | On reaching the snowline , the weather deteriorated and after crunching knee-deep through frozen drifts for half an hour , we decided discretion was more sensible than ill-considered valour and made our way back down . |
| 3 | After teaming up with fellow musicians in the early Seventies , he formed Alaap , performing at Asian shows and weddings , a practice they still do as well as supporting the likes of Peter Gabriel and UB40 at international music festivals . |
| 4 | For when Erik and her husband , Trevor , from Oxford , eventually decided to tie the knot after living together for eight years , the prospect of a conventional white wedding did n't even enter their heads . |
| 5 | How often have I heard Father , after listening impatiently to similar warnings , exclaim , ‘ Oh , do n't be an idiot — let's get on with it , man ! ’ and stride ahead , swinging a machete . |
| 6 | She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " . |
| 7 | You mean that after slaving away for fourteen years all he gets is two thousand ? ’ |
| 8 | That was the end of his second month 's loan after scoring twice in six games ; later he was to turn down the chance of a permanent move . |
| 9 | A HOSPITAL consultant who claimed she was sacked after speaking out against nursing shortages won her appeal against dismissal yesterday . |
| 10 | At last , after skirting carefully round some openings from which there was a distinct smell of rats , they halted in a kind of pit . |
| 11 | OS/2 : After fuelling up with 6,000 gallons of gas , you get in the car and drive to the store with a motorcycle escort and a marching band in procession . |
| 12 | One evening in May 1979 they eagerly clambered in after warming up with several glasses of favourite tipple , turned the thermostat up high and set to . |
| 13 | Tregaron booked a place in the second round after squeezing home by two wickets with two balls to spare against Brynamlwg . |
| 14 | After washing up for five days , the 4th Bottesford Pack in South Humberside raised enough money to buy daffodil bulbs which they planted beside their church car park . |
| 15 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 16 | In the second , more optimistic ending , Pip returns to the forge after working abroad for eleven years and goes to Hoe and Biddy and finds they have a son , also called Pip . |
| 17 | So instead of automatically going to the timber yard and buying new timber , how about looking around at potential sources of second-hand timber and giving the poor old environment a helping hand ? |
| 18 | Erm , capital bonds , they used to be good rates , they , they 've deteriorated really , National Savings certificates well I 've covered index-linked , the only one I 'd really say er is n't super unless you 're a higher-rate taxpayer is the fortieth issue , which is paying under six percent , it 's not really worth picking up for five years . |
| 19 | ‘ And I envy you for living here in these surroundings . ’ |
| 20 | Certainly there is Biblical precedent for splashing out on special occasions — Martha 's anointing of Jesus with the expensive ointment could easily be used as a justification for spraying around a little champagne to hansel a special occasion . |
| 21 | To clean up this mess , a spanking new chemical-waste treatment plant , capable of handling up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year has just been built by Environpace , a group owned mainly by a subsidiary of Waste Management , an American company . |
| 22 | The benefits of contracting out at younger ages stem from the fact that the flat-rate rebate is based on an average of the costs of providing benefits for all age groups . |
| 23 | We saw in Chapter 6 that fixed-term contracts offer one , strictly limited , means of contracting out of statutory rights . |
| 24 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 25 | In marine manufacturing one has the sense of a kind of using up of existing facilities and skills without much new investment , although the Tyne does have R and D capacity in this sector . |
| 26 | She enjoyed being out in the crisp fresh air , enjoyed every moment of stepping out on well-worn pathways with trees all around . |
| 27 | Kadish has managed five-electron reductions of C60 ( although theory suggests that this molecule should be capable of accepting up to six electrons into its lowest unoccupied molecular orbital ) . |
| 28 | The Government imposed a ceiling of 1.5 per cent in the public sector is showing little sign of filtering through to private companies , said the report . |
| 29 | It is an entirely ‘ hands off ’ method of filtration capable of filtering up to six fryers without moving from fryer to fryer . |
| 30 | She paints hearts in lots of different colours and says she has no intention of branching out into other organs of the body . |