Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adj] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plot fires off in every direction at once , almost entirely wasting some of a fine ensemble cast ( Maria De Medirios shows up for a couple of close ups and little more ) , introducing sub-plots at the very last minute ( a homosexual love affair between the opera 's leading man and director is inexplicably absent from the rest of the movie ) and turning from light comedy to an intense marital drama with no warning . |
| 2 | I 'm only doing this as a big favour . |
| 3 | She feels it 's sad that Frankie died at a time when he was just becoming popular with a younger audience . |
| 4 | Reaching the final of this competition at Wembley could earn Newcastle up to £1 m and Keegan said : ‘ I can assure the fans we 're not treating this as a public workout . |
| 5 | I was just taking that as a working example of the concept which you 're putting forward , . |
| 6 | There was nothing of the old Cath Cathy usually enjoying more of a good laugh , she was always happy and cheerful , then she fell victim to a rare diso disorder |
| 7 | The relationship is still going strong despite a heavy workload which takes them both all over the world . |
| 8 | True , I was now lying naked in a locked and candlelit cabana , alone with the industrious She-She , whose fleshy right hand made smoothing motions on the hair-dotted slope of my inner thigh … |
| 9 | The glen and side of hill were closely becoming blanketed with a fine wet mist which soared in from the crest of the mountain , to shelter on the leeward side . |