Example sentences of "[adv prt] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often people will move up to a better word processor or spreadsheet , but will want to carry on using the other applications in their integrated package . |
| 2 | She came in holding a large vase of flowers and said with a smile : |
| 3 | At that point , the mother came in carrying a large tray on which were the four suppers . |
| 4 | I dropped down following a lovely track through the woods below Ivelet Boards and followed the pathway down to Ramps Holme , disturbing a weasel on the way . |
| 5 | Craven Terrace had lost its C , and she scurried along fearing the steel-black swoop of huge birds plucking her high into the air to drop her like a snail and scoop up the pulp . |
| 6 | The problem which arose over finding the right dress for Miss Humby 's appearance has been amply described in Ada McGeer 's book of personal memoirs which she has entitled ‘ Oh Call Back Yesterday , Bid Time Return ’ , wherein she describes fully her frantic but successful efforts to secure Miss Humby 's dress from a Vancouver shop . |
| 7 | Swansea took over following a 14–0 win at home to Newport , as Stuart Davies celebrated his call-up to the Wales squad with a try , but were replaced the following week by a determined Pontypool . |
| 8 | I also feel that this country can not go on permitting the unrestricted sale of looted antiquities from abroad . |
| 9 | For the time being Jonathon will carry on cleaning the empty theatre in the hope that one day he 'll be on the stage and the seats will be full . |
| 10 | My brain wandered off surveying the amorous absurdity of it . |
| 11 | However , this is the 3-inch drive peculiar to Amstrad products , and you would be better off paying the extra £35 for a discount Atari ST . |
| 12 | Yeah I , one of the , yeah yeah , I to started off doing a little bit like that but you find things do n't actually sit in categories very well that 's becomes one of the problems . |
| 13 | ‘ Many people would be better off spending a smaller amount of money on a new hairdo or a relaxing holiday . |
| 14 | You 're much better off having a fresh brain in the morning and ha being able to think on your feet . |
| 15 | Having started off making a big success with a little film , they ended up spending increasingly larger sums of money on bigger films until they had expended so much of their capital they could only go under . |
| 16 | This way , the company claims , there would be no need to carry on harvesting the original variety from the forest . |
| 17 | If you have an odd number of needles , you end up knitting the same needles on every row , so that after a few rows the carriage jams . |
| 18 | They are processes which , once started , end up producing a particular outcome at a later point in time . |
| 19 | What does my hon. Friend think of the actions of Derbyshire county council , which refused one low-cost tender because it came in the wrong coloured envelope and ended up accepting a higher tender from its own work force at an enormous extra cost to charge payers ? |
| 20 | ‘ Else thee 'll end up scrubbing the bloody step like me . ’ |
| 21 | Most backpackers end up owning a modest selection of stoves to cover varying conditions . |
| 22 | Drawing the assembled crowds ’ attention to the Norseman 's pedigree , Bob pointed out that it is thought to have been the first aircraft to land on the Normandy beaches during D-Day , the American fighter ace Screwball Beurling was killed in Italy whilst ferrying a Norseman to the Israelis and of course there is the legend that has built up surrounding the mysterious disappearance of bandleader Major Glenn Miller in December 1944 , after taking-off in a Norseman from Twinwoods airfield , near Bedford , England , bound for Paris , never to be seen again . |
| 23 | Major ignored the prophets of financial doom who fear the taxpayer could end up footing a massive bill by insisting : ‘ I think it 's a good bargain for all of us . ’ |
| 24 | It is common to seek a whitewash in a reverse takeover where the shareholders of the target company will end up holding a controlling interest in the acquiring company . |
| 25 | Hill ended up sharing the front row of the provisional grid with his Canon Williams -Renault team-mate Alain Prost . |
| 26 | He ended up riding a few jumpers in France so its erm although he 's a good trainer now I do n't think he 's an authority and it 's poppycock er frankly . |
| 27 | IF THERE is one political lesson which recent events have underlined in Africa , South East Asia and Latin America , it is that peasant armies waging guerilla wars all end up committing the same sort of brutalities , whatever the flag they fight under . |
| 28 | At least the rabbits wo n't know that Frank Cauldhame did what he did to them , the way a community of people knows what the baddies did to them , so that the revenge ends up having the opposite effect from that intended , inciting rather than squashing resistance . |
| 29 | His career and mine have followed a similar course : he and I both followed ‘ Syllabus B ’ , and both ended up taking a deep interest in stylistics , the study of the use of language in literature . |
| 30 | So you end up taking a whole pile of clothes , most of which invariably amount to little more than ballast . |