Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [coord] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is yet another reason why many fibre-rich foods slow down eating and add to satisfaction . |
| 2 | After much balancing and juggling with cocoa , book and dog they all three eventually reached the attic . |
| 3 | So is not smoking or drinking at night . |
| 4 | Just sitting and looking into space , or just carrying about on their own . |
| 5 | D'Arquebus himself was at once sneering and praying for clarity . |
| 6 | Several of the people involved in the ZETA story , directly or as spectators , are still working or living in retirement in and around Harwell : many of them feel that the publicity and interest generated in ZETA made many politicians and administrators aware of fusion , and helped to gain support for the funding of Culham Fusion Laboratory which was built during the early 1960s . |
| 7 | Then Sally 's lovely nine puppies — I remember you waylaying an army captain to let Sally mate with his dog , and he ringing us up laughing and saying of course he could , and you three making a lovely bridal room for them in Pop 's study ! |
| 8 | It is not the book that you stay up huffing and mewing with laughter over until the middle of the night — that is either Dervla Murphy 's Muddling Through in Madagascar ( Arrow Books , 1990 ) or Sir David Attenborough 's original Zoo Quest to Madagascar , which richly deserves reprinting . |
| 9 | Health Promotion Clinics which cover aspects of health such as diet , alcohol control , giving up smoking and coping with stress . |
| 10 | Health Promotion Clinics ( which cover aspects of health such as diet , alcohol control , giving up smoking and coping with stress ) . |
| 11 | They simply completely dismember themselves and end up writhing and wriggling in meat trays and as piles of jerking bones on the floor . |
| 12 | However , he 's a trooper and that means the show must go on , so he 'll rest for a while at home , but hopes to be back singing and dancing by Christmas . |
| 13 | After the final number , when all the dancers came offstage whooping and whistling with relief to crowd into the showers , Lucy followed Josie around in a final inventory of wigs and clothing and then generally cleared up ready for the next night 's work . |
| 14 | I I find this quite extraordinary Chairman after two years of consistently arguing and voting in committee and at council , they appear to have been bought off by the Labour group and now intend to support a fudged half merger , half federation option . |
| 15 | Exploring it means either walking or travelling by mokoro , a shallow punt in which you are poled along reedy channels and across carpets of water-lilies by tireless guides . |
| 16 | Nowadays most computers have several methods by which an operand may be specified : we have met direct addressing and indexing in Chapter 1 , and the other methods are discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 17 | The invited speakers are either themselves practising in the clinical area or currently speaking or writing about childbirth matters . |