Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [v-ing] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the only occasion when I personally remember seeing a wicketkeeper coming on to bowl and it may be the earliest such occasion in a first-class game . |
| 2 | It was learnt yesterday county councillors have already considered ending a schools cleaning contract awarded to a private firm hired to look after Middlesbrough schools after the it notched up 22 default notices between last August and May 1 . |
| 3 | ‘ Her shoulders are not dipped suggesting a refusal to adopt a submissive role , ’ says psychologist Dr Peter Trower . |
| 4 | Some of its humour happened to remind him of his friend Mike Nichols , who had just begun making a career directing plays on Broadway with the hit Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park and Murray Schisgal 's Luv . |
| 5 | They just stood watching a fireworks display across the bridge at the Expo . |
| 6 | Convinced is from the Greek word elenkhó0 , meaning ‘ convince ; convict ; usually suggests putting a person to shame ; telling someone his fault is in view . ’ |
| 7 | This allowed the oligonucleotide and the proteins binding to the DNA to be rapidly enriched using a magnet to separate the beads and the DNA/protein complex from the rest of the nuclear extract . |
| 8 | He also describes attending a ceremony held by Croatian emigres at Bleiburg in 1985 , where he " spoke with many survivors of the event . |
| 9 | She also suggested raising a fund to relieve the poor and unemployed by a levy on all letters or contracts , and called for drastic simplification of the laws and the establishment of local courts . |
| 10 | There she might find someone who did n't mind employing a traveller to clean out a stable or a pig-sty , or perhaps a kindly old woman might give her a crust . |
| 11 | But after much thought the constable did vaguely recall noticing a car parked very near to the corner of Boundary Drive , not near enough to constitute a danger , but near enough for him to notice it . |
| 12 | Ea transgene copy number ( Figure 2D ) was determined by Southern blots of DNA derived from transgenic mice spleens , digested with the restriction enzyme Kpn I , and then hybridised using a DNA probe specific for the second exon of Ea . |
| 13 | Above : Marking the Soviet entry into the jet era was the Yak–15 which used many Yak–3 components coupled to a new extended forward fuselage housing a 900kg thrust RD–10 jet engine , based on the Jumo 004B . |
| 14 | Why bother learning a language to impress visitors , when you had n't even troubled to learn that of the place where you lived ? |
| 15 | The most popular ‘ class readers ’ are briefly analysed using a list developed by the International Reading Association Committee on Sexism and Reading ( 1977 ) and adopted for use by the Equal Opportunities Commission . |
| 16 | therefore involve teaching a child to make phonemic contrasts which are not normally associated with phonological development ( Ingram 1976 ) . |
| 17 | I 'll never forget seeing a giant handing basket in a west-facing window , groaning under the weight of a huge Tsusing holly fern , its frothy fronds lit up by evening sun . |