Example sentences of "[adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He climbed back into bed , laying the cello on the right-hand pillow , which was more practical since the telephone was on the left-hand side , and read some music while the child went on going through the numbers in the telephone directory . |
| 2 | He went on going through the motions of being a poet until the very end , and inevitably , because he kept in practice , hit upon some successes — ‘ gleams like the flashing of a shield ’ occur in unexpected places . |
| 3 | The Board had been set up according to the provisions of the 1902 Education Act , which also created Local Education Authorities . |
| 4 | Instead , we ended up wandering over the moors above Hebden Bridge . |
| 5 | At the same time this was an occasion for using the telephone , not cables , teletexes or letters which could be misdirected or might end up lying on the desks of the wrong people . |
| 6 | Sleeping in the shade , waking up staring through the leaves at the cobalt blue sky , thinking how impossible things were to paint , how can some blue pigment ever mean the living blue light of the sky ? |
| 7 | He stood up ticking off the events with his glass aginst the fingers of his left hand . |
| 8 | He said what he thought teams could end up playing on the pitches without paying for them , and it would be up to the council whether it called police to remove the players . |
| 9 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 10 | I 've read about it , you do exercises and train yourself , and then when the time comes you pop behind a bush and reappear with the baby slung on your hip , and go on toiling in the paddy-fields as if nothing had happened . " |
| 11 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |