Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number plate 's only hanging on by one screw . |
| 2 | The Dodge mounted the kerb , headlights suddenly stabbing out on full beam . |
| 3 | With world manufacturing prices growing at less than 1 per cent a year , international competition prevented much passing on of higher unit labour costs . |
| 4 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 5 | By now it was all adding up to one conclusion . |
| 6 | No-one likes a relationship to fail , and most of us strive to stay in one , only giving up with great sadness and when the good in whatever we have shared is finally outweighed by the bad . |
| 7 | I was just catching up on some paperwork . |
| 8 | The message of Opportunity 2000 — the business-led initiative to get more women into top management by the year 2000 is not filtering down to many line managers , according to the campaign 's first year report . |
| 9 | Thirty-nine years after Roy became a schoolboy football star on the front page of the then new comic , Tiger , he is finally bowing out of big time . |
| 10 | What happens to those who are already going out with another boyfriend when they discover they are pregnant ? |
| 11 | It 's already going out on this month 's Crimewatch . |
| 12 | " I reckon you 're very wise not going in for this lark , " Joanne said , shifting the mound of her body uncomfortably under the bedclothes . |
| 13 | Imagine you 're at home and you 're not going back to that madhouse . |
| 14 | ‘ No , I 'm not going back to that house . ’ |
| 15 | Ah but you 're not the You know I 'm not going down by bloody choice no not by choice . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not going out with another woman . |
| 17 | Proud of the rapid development time for the 601 , the two companies are nevertheless rushing on to complete work on three other promised iterations of the part , now under development at IBM 's Somerset plant in Austin , Texas . |
| 18 | I 'm just going back along this run for Nildro-hain . |
| 19 | There was nothing to reach for , no aching energy of ambition to move him ; as far as he could see , he was just kicking around in medium comfort and waiting to get old and die . |
| 20 | Going for a walk , arranging to meet a friend , or just getting on with some DIY , hobby , or relaxation exercises are all likely to occupy the mind more effectively . |
| 21 | ‘ We see the volume just getting down to that core set who will see increased demand , ’ he said , adding that the industry 's top 10 companies had 58% of 1992 sales . |
| 22 | and maybe they 're not facing up to that responsibility . |
| 23 | And when that girl becomes vegetarian mix about and the other one she 's vegetarian still and she said she 's not coming back in this house . |
| 24 | For one thing , she discovered that her conscience was at fault over Jewish persecution and she blamed herself for not coming out against such cruelty earlier . |
| 25 | I 'm just coming up to this shop when this girl stops me . |
| 26 | Just finishing off on electrical energy . |
| 27 | Many of us are already cutting down on red meat , partly for health reasons but also because of , as Audrey Eyton explains ( see p.56 ) , the growing awareness that animals being farmed intensively are neither happy nor tasty . |
| 28 | They are now under local control , not opting out of local control , they are actually being managed locally and that is quite obvious to anybody |
| 29 | So , if that is the case how can we possibly lose our identity because we have n't , we 're not , there 's no suggestion if we go on an inward journey , the inward journey must be within our selves , within our individuality , not , not jumping out into some form of spacial context . |
| 30 | Since you are not connecting up at this stage , the rising main can be installed at a leisurely pace . |