Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the intimidating atmosphere of the Mararios Stadium they silenced the partisan crowd with an early goal and then came so close to getting a second which would surely have put them through to a money spinning meeting with Paris St Germaine . |
| 2 | Never had Leith come so close to hitting a man . |
| 3 | ‘ Our solicitor has written to Sutton Hall , so far without getting a reply . |
| 4 | 160 have been arrested so far after trashing a hotel so that should add spice to the clash this evening . |
| 5 | So how about having a look at disability — perhaps then we 'll be seen as people and not charity cases capable only of living our lives in day centres away from the public , instead of blending in harmoniously with the able-bodied world . |
| 6 | Let your hair dry naturally instead of using a hairdryer . |
| 7 | The most critical one in some ways is a change in the structure of our lower jaw , so instead of having a lot of bones in our lower jaw we have just a single bone in our lower jaw , the dentory , which articulates with a bone called the scremosal , whereas in reptiles the quadrate and articular for the articulation and those bones have now got stuck into our inner ear and do some stuff about conducting sound impulses . |
| 8 | The story of Gilly Hopkins is very sad : Gilly has the opportunity to gain everything she 's always wanted — someone who cares about her and forgives her and is willing to provide her with a loving home , but Gilly throws all this away simply by writing a letter when she 's feeling very upset . |
| 9 | I would have been miles away instead of leaving a message for you where to find me . ’ |
| 10 | To date this explosion has n't been that much more than a damp November 5th squib , although it has undoubtedly increased the awareness of the business community that there is rather more to making a presentation than a hand-written flipchart . |
| 11 | It seems a pity that the rationale of a percentage rating system is not extended a little further by incorporating a lieux dits scale classifying named sites within each village . |
| 12 | Some arguments could be answered unequivocally only by operating a rotor ship . |
| 13 | I have angina which is very unpleasant but I can move about more easily since losing a bit of weight and I used to suffer every night with heartburn but since having no fat I can honestly say I have n't suffered at all : … . |
| 14 | In the heart of the city , Bob Scott is further still from closing a deal . |
| 15 | It would appear to be due to the strength of these preferences that prime borrowers have frequently been able to raise funds more cheaply by making a eurosterling rather than a domestic issue . |
| 16 | ‘ They sometimes want to use their time more productively without getting a job off the farm , ’ says Sue . |
| 17 | PLO LEADER Yasser Arafat 's mainstream Fatah movement ended its third meeting in three days early today without taking a decision on a self-rule accord with Israel , a senior PLO official said . |
| 18 | All that time , wrote Harsnet , Pearsall stood stiffly there without saying a word . |
| 19 | Impressionistically , however , the courts seem more reluctant now to use customs and usages to imply contract terms , although this is possibly because they do not draw the distinction clearly enough between mod-ifying a contract and understanding its terms . |
| 20 | Stewart Ritchie , of Scottish Equitable , suggests there is a grey area , of 40 to 45 for men and 35 to 40 for women , within which it is probably not worth making a change whether you are currently in or out . |
| 21 | Full-back Tony Clement is also out after suffering a stress fracture of the right ankle and is replaced by Mike Rayer . |
| 22 | It was hoped that people would not be made worse off by taking a job ( the unemployment trap ) , nor would they lose money when their gross pay rose ( the poverty trap ) , due to the loss of means-tested benefits in each case . |
| 23 | By comparison , Kenya 's five-year plans are far behind in specifying a strategy . |
| 24 | Well only by getting a lift to the clinic , yeah , that 's the only way she could get there |
| 25 | Er , I think that actually , the the parents , the mother and father they just do n't work hard enough at making a marriage work ! |
| 26 | ‘ Scroungers ’ did exist , irresistibly when many were poor and charity was to be had sometimes merely for attending a church service ; and then as now there was a flourishing mythology of great sums inveigled from charity by shrewd layabouts . |
| 27 | Several deficiencies , particularly of trace elements , which frequently cause characteristic blemishes and structural damage to leaves and stems , can often be remedied quite quickly by spraying a solution of the appropriate element directly on to the foliage . |
| 28 | Formally , if where GR is the relaxed modulus and the relaxation time , then Alfrey writes This is derived quite simply by substituting a step function for exp ( ) in the expression for G(t) above . |
| 29 | They went to the house around 9am after receiving a telephone call . |
| 30 | In Lament , quite apart from using a melee of ancient East/West instruments and sounds , and these in tiny shreds and smudges , he creates instrumental theatre , manipulating the stillness by confounding our expectations . |