Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland 's Olympic three-day event double silver medallist , Ian Stark , has not been nicknamed the ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ for hanging about on a cross-country course . |
| 2 | As the second round of European matches gets into full swing tonight , Rangers can only sit back and watch after tumbling out to a last minute goal from Levski Sofia . |
| 3 | A CONVICTED wife-killer who fled to the Irish Republic after walking out of a mental hospital was being flown back to Britain today , police said . |
| 4 | Shrouded in snow and shivering with cold , I arrive at the door of the friary , and after calling out for a long time , the brother porter gets up and asks : ‘ Who is it ? ’ |
| 5 | McKenzie looked as if he might have done enough to retain his crown after coming back from a ninth-round crisis in which he was floored by a two-punch combination to the body . |
| 6 | AN RAF air-sea rescue helicopter today joined a massive search for three young men who disappeared in a small speedboat after setting out on a two-hour trip along the west Wales coast . |
| 7 | Unmould for serving on to a heated plate large enough to accommodate the pudding and the sauce that will seep from it . |
| 8 | Looking further into the future the railway still cherishes the hope of building back to a British Railway connection at Ruabon on the Chester-Shrewsbury line . |
| 9 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |
| 10 | Clearly , unless these features are defined with precision , there is a danger of ending up with a tautological explanation : what is recent must also be novel because it is recent . |
| 11 | Unlike its predecessors , Warrior is capable of keeping up with a Main Battle Tank across country |
| 12 | One or two of the old films are now on CD video because they are important documents of certain artists , but the way we are filming and editing the films I am now making is completely different We have learnt a very great deal in these years and so we forget about the older films just as you would n't dream of driving around in a thirty-year-old car . |
| 13 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 14 | She yawned , stretched herself , voluptuously enjoying the process of waking up to a lazy day . |
| 15 | Not to dream of playing at Valderrama again ( I 'm tired of waking up in a cold sweat ) . |
| 16 | It 's a struggle with young people , alongside them as they experience the pleasures and pains , the excitements and disappointments of growing up in a hostile world . |
| 17 | whether they were in favour of going on to a second cycle of review and reporting and if so whether reports should deal only with a particular aspect of the school ; |
| 18 | He also disclosed that the company is considering moving up to a full listing . |
| 19 | But it is my way of getting out of a sticky situation . |
| 20 | ‘ When , one month after German monetary union , East Germany 's state run economy showed signs of breaking down on a massive scale , Chancellor Kohl … called in the top bankers of the land . |
| 21 | The auto gearbox refuses to take the revcounter needle anywhere near the red line ( and that 's set only at 4500rpm ) , which means the chances of kicking down into a lower gear are limited , making A-road overtaking manoeuvres more ponderous than they should be and knocking a substantial hole in the cruising speed when you meet a hill . |
| 22 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |
| 23 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 24 | DOS users know what they 're doing , have invested a lot of time and effort in learning how to do it , and do n't want the hassle of moving over to a new interface in order to do it differently . |
| 25 | But one problem which employers may face is employees ' reluctance to move to a cheaper area as they can foresee the difficulty of moving back into a high-priced housing area later on . |
| 26 | Okosan Securities , one of Japan 's 10 largest securities companies , has declared that it is considering tying up with a London-based company to take advantage of its knowledge and expertise in the specialised area of offshore investment . |
| 27 | If ClarisWorks is in the process of being born and Complete Works shows signs of coming out of a difficult adolescence , then PFS:WindowWorks is the old timer of the three . |
| 28 | Time now passed untrackably , for it was given over to struggle , with the bed like a trap or a pit , covered in nets , and the sense of starting out on a terrible journey , towards a terrible secret . |
| 29 | IMAGINE stepping out of the shower into the caress of a tropical breeze — instead of reaching out for a tatty old bath towel . |
| 30 | If he acknowledged his title more openly he might have to behave like a count , instead of roaring around like a reckless lunatic causing accidents in his speedboat … |