Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few people were about , returning from church or walking home with a newspaper or a neatly wrapped pastry . |
| 2 | This section covers additional accommodation and travel expenses incurred in reaching the overseas destination or returning home as a result of the failure of public transport services in getting the insured to his departure port or airport by the time stated in the itinerary . |
| 3 | If you are married or living together as a couple , you should only make one joint claim ( any other members of your household should make a separate claim ) . |
| 4 | Becoming pregnant or going ahead with a pregnancy has to be a personal choice for each individual HIV positive woman . |
| 5 | Or it may show its need to excel by jumping obstacles better than other horses , or doing the perfect workout in the show ring or dressage arena , producing the most fantastic extended trot when shown in hand , or behaving perfectly with a beginner rider on its back . |
| 6 | He owed his life to Corbett who had saved him from a choking death at Tyburn , yet Corbett was still mysterious ; working constantly , his only pleasure being the flute , some manuscript or sitting quietly over a cup of wine brooding about life . |
| 7 | Today that interior decoration forms part of the museum itself , rather than acting merely as a backdrop to the works of art on display . |
| 8 | Surely that 's better than fading away in a hospital bed somewhere ? |
| 9 | artwork on a film , changing it as required , rather than scratching away on a piece of copper clad board ! |
| 10 | From a spy to a slimy toad and from this to a serpent Satan moves , crawling on his belly in the dust rather than standing upright in a pool of fire . |
| 11 | There 's nothing more frustrating than discovering halfway through a DIY project that you have forgotten to buy a simple yet vital piece of equipment . |
| 12 | With its twin staircases and end steps , a Dreadnought was capable of loading and unloading simultaneously at a terminus . |
| 13 | He simply wished that he did n't have to contend with the unspoken supposition that the two of them were hiding up there on the Step and banging away like a couple of baboons , which he saw in the eyes of more than one person who wished him good morning when he went into town to pick up his mail . |
| 14 | It probably was n't bubbling and smoking away like a witch 's cauldron but I certainly remember it that way What was it ? |
| 15 | She would write her first reply in the bathroom , turning on the geyser to pretend she was having a bath and writing joyfully on a breadboard balanced on the small wooden basin ( they used a breadboard as a bathmat on the freezing floor , because he liked the genuineness of natural wood ) . |
| 16 | but Swindon are on their way … and looking forward to a home tie against Oldham Athletic from the premier league in round three … |
| 17 | I 'm missing you all very much and looking forward to a time of sharing and renewal with you in April . |
| 18 | In less than two hours he could be free , safe and looking forward to a future . |
| 19 | The new team will find financial markets in a high state of excitement and looking forward to a cut in interest rates . |
| 20 | The 1922 Committee of backbench MPs is led by Cranley Onslow , stocky , ginger-haired and looking unaccountably like a surveyor who has just arrived to advise on suspected dry rot in the roof . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh ! ’ he said , stopping the car and looking hurriedly at a map . |
| 22 | As a result evidence … clearly showed that the two Constables had been idling and gossiping together at a place where one of them had no right to be … [ and ] that the Acting Sergeant , on his round of inspection , met these two Constables together , failed to note in his book , as was required in the regulations , the place where and the time where he met them , and to see that the Constables then noted in their books the time and place of his visit … |
| 23 | And we 've been waiting and waiting and waiting now for a week to get this reconciliation at least together so that we could go out and re-count whatever was required . |
| 24 | Charles continued to live with her in Cambridge , commuting by car to Ipswich to teach his classes , and staying there for a night or two each week . |
| 25 | I felt that some of those on the bank waiting for the net to come in were wanting a body and wishing hard for a corpse . |
| 26 | He re-entered the domain of ploughed land , far off and spreading endlessly like a sea , with furrows instead of waves . |
| 27 | They heard him dialling and speaking tersely for a moment . |
| 28 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 29 | Charlton knows Ireland can afford one slip-up , but his side has every chance of upsetting the rhythm of the Spanish and coming away with a result . |
| 30 | A glastyn is rather like a BROWNIE , helping the farmer with chores and asking only for a bowl of cream and some bread at day 's end . |