Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time she got up , after finally falling into a heavy , dreamless sleep just before dawn , Rachel had a headache and felt thoroughly wretched at the thought of what might be to come . |
| 2 | After early bumping at the first bend , Clydal found himself in arrears and Pilot Error made the early running from Stormhill , who quickly took control down the far side and looked set to win . |
| 3 | On winter days , usually after unsuccessfully battling against the spiteful thrusts of nature , a bacon sandwich and a mug of Bovril laced with sherry is guaranteed to soothe the injured spirit . |
| 4 | After extensively washing with the same buffer , the column was eluted with buffer 3 plus 0.15 M ( NH 4 ) 2 SO 4 . |
| 5 | Malaysia leave the field after narrowly losing to an accomplished Tunisian seven ( 14–10 ) in the semi-finals after losing their pool match 22–0 to the same side . |
| 6 | DAGENHAM and Redbridge went within an ace of upsetting their Second Division neighbours Orient in the FA Cup , eventually going down 5–4 after twice leading by a two-goal margin . |
| 7 | And Gower is bitterly disappointed not to have made the tour squad after virtually apologising to the Indian Cricket Board for alleging their bowlers scuffed the ball in the final Test at the Oval two summers ago . |
| 8 | Israel had previously accused Japan of largely complying with the Arab boycott for fear of jeopardising its oil supplies . |
| 9 | ‘ We will go to Leeds , the defending champions , feeling confident , instead of just hoping for the best — and that 's a measure of how far we 've come . |
| 10 | I mean it I mean er the reason why it was set up really was the nineteen ninety two sort of like coming into the single European market and everything |
| 11 | The answer is that it saw the way the wind was blowing and instead of desperately tripping its users up as they tried to move to open systems , it embraced them wholeheartedly , giving users the option of either staying on the slow track with an MPE V operating system that over time would converge with Unix , or taking the fast track and jumping across to the HP 9000 . |
| 12 | Above all , perhaps , there is the point , established beyond doubt , that the creation of hits is not simply a matter of continually plugging into a self-sustaining circle linking producer and customer . |
| 13 | Some modern projectors have an inbuilt device for quickly switching to a new bulb . |
| 14 | Over the years the number of grade Vs has quadrupled , with much over-crowding in the top end . |
| 15 | This instituted a partnership between central and local government with both having as a prime objective the promotion of the education service . |
| 16 | Gould was satisfied with simply selling off the remaining numbers he had bought off Lear . |
| 17 | Sonnet 108 challenges abruptly all the founts of invention : The answer is predictable , inevitable , right : Those four lines could stand as a motto for the whole sequence , with there reworking from a fresh direction of the desire to celebrate the other from which Shakespeare started . |
| 18 | Faced with either crashing into the heavy gatepost or jumping the dark gaping ditch off far too short a stride , Hullabaloo tried to put in an extra stride and met the obstacle entirely wrong . |
| 19 | Similarly , she explains , for the Bororos of Brazil the normal pattern is to refer to a participant by using a noun several times in succession before eventually shifting into a pronominal form . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's all right — I was n't at all happy about the arrangements either , ’ Laura agreed , before explaining that when Ross had returned to New York he 'd gone straight to the hospital from the airport , before eventually returning to the empty apartment . |
| 21 | The investment represents a personal victory for the city 's Principal Arts Officer , Elizabeth Goodall , who has led a long campaign to educate local politicians of the cultural and economic rewards to be reaped from properly investing in the visual arts infrastructure . |
| 22 | Katherine wandered back into her bedroom and lazily sorted through her wardrobe , before finally settling on a simple gown of heavy blue satin that was at least two seasons out of date , but which served to hide her fuller figure as she refused to wear a corset . |
| 23 | Maggie met and talked to others she knew before finally arriving at the Commemorative Hall . |
| 24 | It may be extremely difficult to discern when a decision-maker has ‘ commenced ’ his inquiry , and to prevent the courts from ever looking beyond the formal invocation of the finding ‘ furnished tenancy ’ is too limited . |
| 25 | In the same year Sir Thomas Roe went as English representative in turn to The Hague , Copenhagen and Königsberg ( where the Elector of Brandenburg then was ) before also helping with the Swedish–Polish negotiations . |
| 26 | Yet in bravely opting for the high-risk , high-competition approach , the government has left itself an out . |
| 27 | When Brazil beat Italy 4-1 in the final of the 1970 World Cup the style of their triumph was a cry of defiance against the organisation men , the managers and coaches who insisted on getting things right in defence before even thinking about the imaginative attacking play which should be the game 's apotheosis at this level . |
| 28 | He would have been in there swinging with the best . |
| 29 | Bates , on the other hand , relaxed after claiming the first set 6–1 to lose the second 6–0 and found difficulty in mentally recharging as the 25 year old Swede took his opportunity to achieve a career best performance to reach the final . |
| 30 | Green criticised previous guides , correctly , for their geographic vagueness and their lack of adventure in seldom stirring from the main roads and ‘ stations ’ as the viewpoints were called . |