Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , it won the commission to design the new Ghanaian parliament building — the country only having recently returned to democracy . |
| 2 | Her mam would say nothing , just sit there white-faced , cupping her hand over the latest bruise , not daring even to blink in case he said she was sleeping in God 's time when all he wanted was to raise his children decent . |
| 3 | The disadvantage of that was you could n't have somebody in with the class for five or six lessons just standing there pretending to film . |
| 4 | A Latin motto completed the package , though the family could never decide which sounded better — ‘ Cui debeo fidus ’ or ‘ Suscipere et finire ’ — and ended up using either according to taste . |
| 5 | The farm worker still remains socially and geographically isolated but he is also becoming less bound by custom and habit . |
| 6 | Anger that she was n't answering now combined with concern and something approaching desperation in his mind . |
| 7 | David Hevey Can you elaborate on how getting ill made to value political and practical photographic theory ? |
| 8 | This is particularly important when you realise that only 30% of West Belfast residents who are currently working actually work in West Belfast . |