Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he went on gazing out of the window , drawing on it with his finger until Mrs Hollins came out and rapped on the glass . |
| 2 | And he goes on gazing out of the window . |
| 3 | If you want to get in close enough to see the detail of his beautiful body markings , you wo n't be able to include much of his neck which will be mostly sticking out through the top of the frame . |
| 4 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 5 | Dispel notions of lethargic ponies plodding nose to tail , only speeding up on the way back to the stables : trail riding can be both challenging and exciting . |
| 6 | The force is rightly stepping back from the limelight . |
| 7 | and you slid down twisting on to the grass . |
| 8 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 9 | No need to explain one 's reasons for suddenly looking out of the window . |
| 10 | Andy is filling the single champagne glass at the apex of the pyramid with champagne ; it is overflowing , filling the three glasses beneath it ; they in turn are overflowing , filling the glasses on the level beneath them , which are also full and so spilling over to the level underneath , and so on and so on down almost to the bottom ; Andy is on his eighth magnum . |
| 11 | So going back to the parallel , have you had any thoughts about it ? |
| 12 | I mean , it 's only going up on the wall with those three others . |
| 13 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |
| 14 | It 's a wonderful surprise to turn the corner , just yards away from the mayhem of the chairlift , and find yourself in wide , sweeping moorland , gently inclining up to the ridge . |
| 15 | She was soon forgetful of the time , however , her thoughts swiftly going back to the man who had put his finger on her doorbell at that hour in the morning , and kept it there . |
| 16 | I was aware of the fact that there had been what seemed like 20 people working in the office and then it was suddenly dwindling down to a skeleton staff . |
| 17 | Ah sure he 's only staying out for a while till he gets married and that . |
| 18 | There is a connotation to leadership that needs perhaps getting out of the way . |
| 19 | In total therefore there are seven times as many graduate men among all employees , so getting on to the wage profiles that grow fastest and last longest is very much a matter of educational credentials . |
| 20 | People become vulnerable : they feel very thin-skinned ; over-sensitive and self-pitying ; moody and unpredictable , with a cheerfulness that is transparent and brittle ; they may become tearful , perhaps breaking down over an item of television news or for no apparent reason at all . |
| 21 | Only in the former case , where the plasma is in equilibrium , its particles randomly moving around with a distribution of energies , does the concept of ‘ temperature ’ have a true meaning and the possibility of sustained thermo -nuclear fusion exist . |
| 22 | ‘ But … but I love you ! ’ she cried , suddenly coming out of the trance in which she had been imprisoned , and desperately anxious that she should in some way communicate her feelings for him . |
| 23 | While at the same time as not merely coming out of the closet about his sexuality — in fact , by hardly admitting there was a closet there at all — he was also locking so many of his innermost thoughts away . |
| 24 | ‘ And I 'm only coming back to the flat to get my bag , if that 's the way you feel . |
| 25 | Then you see an express train apparently coming out through the embankment while a gigantic head capped with flowers revolves high above and you realise it will be an amazing day . |
| 26 | However , Ballyclare 's Geoff McBride pushed him all the way , only losing out by a quarter of a machine 's length at the chequered flag after having sat on Menary 's rear bumper for the complete race . |
| 27 | The headmaster himself had accused her of only joining up for the uniform . |
| 28 | She was only joining in for the sake of the others because Murder in the Dark is more fun with five than with four . |
| 29 | He of friends , and I thought well , when we 're going into this , you know , he 's obviously coming in as a colleague , because actually he was a member of the same damn union . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm going to turn into one of those old guys who are constantly harping on about the war , about ration books and bomb shelters . |