Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Farm have not only made a record fit only for hurling out onto the M25 , they have exposed themselves as humourless , directionless THICKOS . |
| 2 | I was all for passing by on the other side of the road , but Buffy would n't let it drop . |
| 3 | So after toddling about for a while you go into Barries ’ and point out the shorts where they lie in the window , interleaved with their fellows . |
| 4 | Here now is an Arab leader who has shown himself to be capable not only of standing up to the mightiest military force in the world , but also of retaliating . |
| 5 | Earlier , he had been amazed by the amount of sludge being discharged by his pores , so before going back to the hot-rooms , he went to the wash handbasin and scrubbed his face with a will , and imagined all his blackheads disappearing down the drain along with the waste water . |
| 6 | HAVING done all the hard work in bowling out for 158 a Bellville XI bolstered by four Western Province players , Scotland failed to score quickly enough in going down to a second defeat , by 13 runs , on their South African tour yesterday . |
| 7 | Nationally , few MPs think that they will gain much from chuntering on about the drains … but I just wonder if they are not wrong . |
| 8 | She asked a waiter for another pot , and settled down to catching up with the story of Swan 's life . |
| 9 | In any large , structured company , some people are better motivators and better at getting on with the work force than others . |
| 10 | And then I know a lot people who now in retirement do not have a bath , because they ca n't be confident enough at getting out of a bath , so they say oh well I manage with a shower . |
| 11 | You can feel the grip more and you can control the bike a lot better by forcing down on the peg when the rear steps out . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ she continued , engrossed in her story , ‘ he brought the house down by flying on to the stage like a whirlwind and sweeping Mother off her feet ! ’ |
| 13 | So by keeping out of the way and staying at sea he hoped to put himself right . |
| 14 | You may even want to produce the sort of book that is popular in America , the police procedural concerned with as many as half a dozen different crimes investigated by as many officers linked to each other only by working out of the same squad room . |
| 15 | Was the accused treating the goods as his own to dispose of regardless of the owner 's rights because the owner could get the machinery back only by giving in to the demands ? |
| 16 | I believe that it is only by going back to the basics and debating questions such as ‘ What do you want from the audit process ? |
| 17 | As you can see , unless you feel that there is something suspect about the property , such as an extension which you feel may be badly constructed , or it is very old ( say , 18th century ) it is really not worth paying out for the more in-depth survey in the initial stages , which costs twice as much as the ordinary valuation survey . |
| 18 | DEVASTATION The hellish scene faced by emergency services in Amsterdam last night when a huge El Al jumbo jet ripped through suburban apartment blocks after losing two of its four engines soon after taking off from the city |
| 19 | They had their own windows with dark blue oil-cloth roller-blinds through which Dot could see into the compartment of the train alongside just like looking over at a next-door house . |
| 20 | But not like prowling round in the dark like a kid . ’ |
| 21 | For those of you shying away from hopping around in the water and tired of pedalling away on a bike , a new stepping machine from Powersport International could be just the thing you 're after . |
| 22 | The man in the leather jacket stood on the platform for a moment longer before stepping up into the carriage next to Donna 's . |
| 23 | Just before dozing off on an air mattress beneath a nylon tent amid the stench of decaying refuse they may reflect vaguely on the curious unevenness of their blessings . |
| 24 | But in August , just before setting off for a month in Switzerland , he still hoped to have finished a draft of the third act by the end of the year . |
| 25 | How much of the discussion was given over to reporting back on the perceptions of others including children ? |
| 26 | Ramsay himself did not know this Ettrick Forest area so well as the main Middle and East Marches ; but from the route the usurper had taken from Moffat , it looked as though he was heading either for the mid-Tweed or Teviot dales — although he could have reached the former more easily by turning off in the Broughton area of Tweedsmuir . |
| 27 | The next time lesbians and gays are involved in any attempt to effect major change , we will be better served not by fitting on to the agenda of others , but by organizing independently and making alliances with other groups seeking progressive , structural , social changes . |
| 28 | Parents there voted overwhelmingly against opting out in the final ballot . |
| 29 | After the treatment , I did feel refreshed rather like waking up after a good night 's sleep . |
| 30 | When the economics become right , when the petrol dries up , then the possibly of moving over from a gas based , petrol based , economy to hydrogen economy is a very real one , and of course again this is an exciting branch of inorganic chemistry which many people are looking at . |