Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dealers can also provide a useful service in locating specific types of rug or generally buying on your behalf . |
| 2 | Adults may remain -5 months without feeding or notably moving in their winter aggregation site . |
| 3 | For the cabinet as a whole , though , talking about the need to replace or reform the poll tax proved easier than finally deciding on its replacement . |
| 4 | She had worked hard last week , but there seemed to her to be more work than ever landing on her desk this week . |
| 5 | In this role he was more specifically practical than his novels might suggest , advising Angela Burdett-Coutts to consult with the Board of Health , rather than simply trusting to her architect , in order to ‘ get good sanitary arrangements on the most efficient and simple terms ’ . |
| 6 | When it actually came to writing rather than vaguely thinking about his address , Henry found it more difficult than he had expected . |
| 7 | The Life of Guthlac claims that Guthlac-reputedly appearing after his death in a vision to Aethelbald — prophesied that he would receive the kingdom from the hand of God , who had foreshortened Ceolred 's life for its wickedness , and triumph over his foes ( Vita Guthlaci , ch. 49 ) . |
| 8 | His grandsons remembered him as a very old man , fond of reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica and so failing in his memory that , when he dozed over one of the volumes , the boys would turn over several pages and he never noticed but read on from there when he woke up . |
| 9 | As Derek Fraser has suggested , they were of four main types : ‘ a fear of social revolution , a humanitarian concern for suffering , a desire to improve the moral tone of the recipients and a satisfaction of some psychological or social need ’ , i.e. a desire for the confirmation of social status and superiority which came from giving to those poorer than oneself , and perhaps basking in their gratitude . |
| 10 | Adult women will have the unappealing choice between rejecting women 's language and so becoming ‘ less than a woman ’ , or embracing it and thus acquiescing in their inferiority — becoming ‘ less than a person ’ . |
| 11 | I mean , it looked as if you were looking at my chest , and just staring at my chest . |
| 12 | It 's a great power to be very physical , to be able to storm through life with swaying shoulders , instead of creeping and just relying on your thesaurus . |
| 13 | Er and and just going through my mind at the moment |
| 14 | For whatever reason , after his initial expressionless stare , he had attached himself to her , at first dawdling behind , then circling round her , as might a stray dog , and finally trotting at her side . |
| 15 | But if we want to consider how life arose , we have to look back a further thousand million years beyond even the earliest micro-fossils , to a time when the earth was completely lifeless and still cooling after its birth . |
| 16 | It is impossible to say to what extent Cézanne was aware of the fact that he was doing this , and in the process breaking the laws of scientific linear perspective , but it seems likely that it was part of a natural desire to emphasize the two-dimensional aspect of the canvas while continuing to explain the nature of objects and also insisting on their solidity by modelling them as fully as possible . |
| 17 | I said earlier that we want to involve all aspects of the educational system , and for example we have already written to every local authority in the country , telling them about the general themes that we have identified as important , asking for their comments , for their suggestions of other matters that we should perhaps look into , and also asking for their help and involvement . |
| 18 | Good old Simon , pounding away and probably thinking about his golf handicap to keep himself going . |
| 19 | Looking back I can now see that some of the happenings through which I lived professionally were destined to be profound and far reaching in their impact and to become milestones of educational change . |
| 20 | The French sword in its decorated scabbard , found in a country sale room and now hanging above their fireplace . |
| 21 | She and her husband moved to Essex after the first of the three children was born , and have stayed in the same house since , Mary busying herself with a multitude of activities locally , and now caring for her husband since his stroke . |
| 22 | This should involve making all key decisions and even moving into your office during your absence . |
| 23 | It looks and performs like a pro unit , and even allowing for its reliance on unbalanced connections ( avoid long cables ! ) it 's an all-rounder which amply suits any home or semi-pro studio . |
| 24 | The principles as civil proceedings and the topic is now run by it goes on and that mainly deals with criminal material and then one can pick it up at paragraph thirty two er seventeen when er the authors addressed themselves to civil proceedings er and that er following passage deals with effects of the civil evidence act and the relevant procedures and then moving on my Lord to er to in fact , thirty two thirty nine on page eighty hundred and twenty nine the expert has furnished the judge or jury with the necessary scientific criteria for testing the accuracy of her conclusion so that to enable the judge or jury to perform their own independent judgement by the application of these criteria to the facts proved in evidence . |
| 25 | People were coming out from Palm Sunday Mass at the church of Ognissanti , pausing to chat to families going in to the last service and then passing under his window carrying sprays of olive leaves . |
| 26 | She wished to arrive at Frizingley Hall that day around two o'clock , a convenient hour when , with luncheon just over , Mrs Amabel Dallam would be lying on her bed recovering from the exertions of ordering and then pecking at her food , Miss Linnet Gage reading aloud to her , perhaps , as an aid to the digestive processes of one lady , the nest-building of the other , so that Cara might give Miss Gemma Dallam her fitting alone . |
| 27 | When not working , Reay 's main interest is snooker of which he is ‘ very , very keen ’ and then referring to his colleague , Keith Smith , he said , for the benefit of the Glenpatrick News that Keith ‘ loves cream cakes . ’ |
| 28 | That had seemed natural to Stephen , the way things should be : his father working and then emerging from his work , all three of them walking on the beach , or walking to Badstoneleigh to go to the Pavilion , or having tea on Stephen 's birthday in the Spinning Wheel , or going to see Somerset play . |
| 29 | As Blake lay on the floor , he watched the arrows soaring into the air , about a hundred yards away , and then falling towards their target . |
| 30 | The trip down would start off quietly for a while , everyone busily engaged in talking with friends , but soon the holiday spirit would prevail and after the first stop , singing would start , and then arriving at our destination , coaches to be unloaded , mountains of food carted on to the sands , and the task of enjoying oneself began . |