Example sentences of "[adv] and [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shuffled papers , bringing them together and placing them to one side , face downwards . |
| 2 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 3 | The skill of research is in accessing fundamental points quickly and substantiating them with hard data . |
| 4 | All at once , Melanie was back home and swathing herself in diaphanous veiling before a mirror . |
| 5 | There is nothing inherently improbable about the same company producing both and selling them to opposite sides in a war . |
| 6 | Maybe Jack was rounding them up and moving them to another field . |
| 7 | DEFINITION : Research is ringing someone up and asking them for other people 's names . |
| 8 | An ergonomically designed cockpit was devised labelling everything clearly and putting everything within easy reach . |
| 9 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 10 | Now , I have much to be getting on with and would appreciate your not following me about and interrupting me like this . |
| 11 | His head went back and he laughed at her mutinous expression , the glint in his eyes deepening , before leaning forward again and addressing her with quiet insistence . |