Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Bob looked at it , the hand performed a sudden evolution like a conjuring-trick , turning over and producing from nowhere a pack of American cigarettes , with one of the cigarettes extended towards Bob . |
| 2 | ‘ Now do stop fussing around , ’ his wife said to him after he had been tossing and turning for about an hour . |
| 3 | After resting and lazing for nearly an hour , after the children had slid down enough dunes , chased enough birds , fallen in the water enough times , we returned in much the same way as we started out , except this time Maha leapt into the boat and would not move . |
| 4 | They 're retiring to various parts of the country , down here onto the Sussex coast and on the whole coast into the South West — to the pleasant places if they can afford to do it , and they 're leaving the inner city and leaving behind there a lot of young families , often single parent families and older people , and of course the kind of provision you have to make , the Social Services , the needs of these communities differ quite widely . |
| 5 | Vattimo and Rovatti 1983 , Vattimo 1985 , 1987 ) — are recognized as possessing at least a family resemblance to the more general phenomenon of ‘ postmodernism ’ . |
| 6 | As a rough-and-ready guide , one can think of these gestural usages as requiring at least a video-tape of the speech event if the proper interpretation is to be available from a recording . |
| 7 | The Neue Zürcher Zeitung of Nov. 24 described UNIDO as suffering from both a leadership and identity crisis . |