Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 2 | And then the railway lines themselves , snaking out secretly and backwards and then suddenly fanning out into a thousand arteries of shining black steel leaping through London and beyond to the places you can only imagine , the lines pulsing her brain with the excitement of where they 're going . |
| 3 | Mm you basically saving up for a complete system ? |
| 4 | It was a pleasant voice , with an undertone of humour , and Alexandra was immediately jealous , envisaging Matthew and his secretary in his office , laughing together , sharing jokes about his work , perhaps going out for a quick meal before they both went home . |
| 5 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
| 6 | high I 'm only coming out with a ten flush , pair of aces , and a pair of eights would have been mine whichever way you played it . |
| 7 | The rock is a unique form of conglomerate , so warming up on a few practice routes was needed to get a feel for it . |
| 8 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 9 | And I just said , I 'm not walking around with a hundred and fifty quids worth of money . |
| 10 | Erm , well what your mum and dad said to me is that he gets very worried , het up , really tensed about doing things , that 's going , you know , things that are gon na happen , like just driving down to a different place , er and he get 's himse himself so het up , so worried , he makes himself ill , I think that 's what 's happened |
| 11 | As he was talking , he was sliding out of bed , still trying to face his wife , but finally leaping up with a glad cry and rushing for the door , clad only in his pyjama top , his penis smacking against his thighs as he ran , as she noted . |
| 12 | Then turn to the opposite direction by stepping with the left foot about a shoulder 's width to the left , thus ending up in a left forward stance in the opposite direction . |
| 13 | His biggest regret , he said , was not signing off with a 34th try . |
| 14 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 15 | I was just walking around with a huge grin on my face . |
| 16 | I was surprised to see Benjamin keep to a swift gallop , not reining in until a good mile separated us from the convent . |
| 17 | I mean , I 'm well aware you do n't have to face single-handed and prattling , blowing your own cor-anglais and generally acting up before a captive crowd of thousands . |
| 18 | ‘ We inhabitants of the post-historical world ’ , he trumpets , ‘ will have to keep in mind that the truly fundamental transformation in world politics are not going on in a desolate Middle Eastern desert , but back in cette vielle Europe which was the cradle of the idea of human freedom ’ . |
| 19 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 20 | But I 'm not going out with a bloody cold like this ! |
| 21 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 22 | Playing at volume , the FGM proves itself capable of dishing out the dirt , the Dual Sound humbucker retaining its tone and not thinning out to a tuneless buzz . |
| 23 | So you would feel equally at home there with a group of friends on a night out or just popping in for a quiet drink and a chat . |
| 24 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 25 | Anyway , that is one of his reasons for not switching over to a metric standard for his stupid measurements , though in fact he 's just lazy . |
| 26 | But er before I came out I switched it on cos I 'm not coming back to a cold house . |
| 27 | The end point can vary between the parent just giving in for a peaceful life , the whole event fizzling out with the child still not having done what was asked or the parent having smacked the child and walked away . |
| 28 | So it was then a question of just sitting down with a blank sheet of paper and starting to draw , because a Designer thinks about structures and design only by doing it , by drawing what 's in his mind . |
| 29 | Its founders were clinging to the wreckage , not setting out on a brave new voyage . |
| 30 | They reach a length of 1m ( 39″ ) and are nocturnal , not settling down in a brightly-lit tank . |