Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much for looking for excitement . |
| 2 | I 'd come so far without looking from side to side , only seeing the next qualification up , that by the time I began to feel closed in it was too late . |
| 3 | Unlike most scholars in the field , he was actually a trained architect , studying under the late Neo-classicist Albert Richardson , but he practised only briefly before turning to writing . |
| 4 | Just a few seconds , Sir Edmund , and the cord slips round their throat ; fuddled in their wits they would struggle but only briefly before lapsing into unconsciousness . |
| 5 | So instead of dealing with sort of high trying to push everything So if you bring your voltage down from two forty volts to say you could get a a transformer , a battery eliminator , for a tape recorder . |
| 6 | Miss Kathryn Finel , aged 18 , of Riverslea , is just back after working for GAP , a voluntary organisation , in the year between school and college . |
| 7 | Mach glanced at DeVore , conscious of how much he was giving away simply by talking in front of him , but he 'd had no choice . |
| 8 | In practice certain aspects of an implementation may be discernible at an architectural level , most noticeably in coping with hardware faults and in the possibilities for enhancing program performance . |
| 9 | Patients were instructed to administer the enema once daily before retiring to bed and were warned that they may pass dark stools as a result of treatment . |
| 10 | Soil mark sites are visible because of different coloured marks in the soil , usually just after ploughing For example , if a burial mound with a ditch around it has been flattened by ploughing , the material from which the mound was constructed , the soil filling the ditch , and the soil in the rest of the ploughed field may be of different colours . |
| 11 | However , if economic evaluation were used more frequently in choosing between treatment technologies such ‘ trade-offs ’ between cost and quality would be made more explicit . |
| 12 | If it ca n't be quantitatively based , ultimately it 's probably not worth doing in science . |
| 13 | Just as in the 1914 war , the first effect to be felt was that of large numbers of operating and engineering staff joining the forces and London Transport had its own Territorial Unit who went to camp in August 1939 and were sent straight overseas without returning to work . |
| 14 | Profits were slightly ahead after taking into account the costs of advertising and promoting the launch of Complete . |
| 15 | He investigates by going to places , tackling people , often but not always by shooting or slugging them , and often but not obligatorily so by going to bed with them . |
| 16 | ‘ We have done fairly well recently without winning at home . |
| 17 | From there it is a comparatively small step for you to take on a role in a piece of forum theatre , and then on to working in role with the whole class . |
| 18 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 19 | She 'll have to get used to going out at night again instead of sitting at home waiting for a husband who never shows up . |
| 20 | I 'd like to welcome you all , and thank you very much for coming on time . |
| 21 | PS I do n't think you should marry that young man in the back row of the chorus , it 's too soon after going to bed with your horse dressed up as a Praetorian Guard . |
| 22 | Certainly not by conniving at murder . |
| 23 | Nor does he render a service in country B or anywhere else by refraining in consequence of the grant from taking preventive action against the grantee . |