Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medical sociology has long since given up looking at process — it 's too busy experiencing illness and waffling on about doctor-patient interaction . |
| 2 | But while Howard sits there , trying not to think about those 97,000 piled corpses , he apparently sits there thinking about coffee . |
| 3 | As it was I just sat there fuming with frustration , gabbled one senseless sentence and went swiftly to where charity is supposed to begin , muttering ‘ Never again' all the way , but omitting to add ‘ till the next time ’ . |
| 4 | The fact that precious substances have been sucked with so much gusto into the stream of mass consumption admittedly has small bearing on jewellery as an art . |
| 5 | She even started making other arrangements so she would n't just end up sitting at home staring at the phone and forcing herself not to ring him and say her plans had changed and she was free after all . |
| 6 | The disadvantage of that was you could n't have somebody in with the class for five or six lessons just standing there pretending to film . |
| 7 | Even this type of housing , however , is not always allocated solely according to need and council tenants are expected to pay economic rents , i.e. rents that would be charged in the private market . |
| 8 | Now began the real fight for the story , the exclusive , the Kiss ‘ n ’ Tell , which was mostly played out long-range from London , where the editors snarled and the home-side pack were still running around looking for defence ministers or Gorbachev or Cabinet luminaries . |
| 9 | Anyway , they 're always falling off riding across country and they know how to fall . |
| 10 | If the House were to follow Palmerston blindly , they ‘ might as well give up talking about science and art and the beautification of the metropolis ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I am so sorry , ’ she said , then went out shrieking with laughter . |
| 12 | We then end up eating for entertainment , rather than nourishment . |
| 13 | ‘ I completely messed up going to altitude ’ |
| 14 | Even today excavation reports treat artefacts as separate entities neatly divided up according to material from which they were made , i.e. gold , silver , lead , bronze , tin , iron , ivory , bone , jet , shale , stone , then followed by coins , samian decorated , samian plain , samian stamps , amphora stamps , mortaria stamps and coarse wares . |
| 15 | In a more general sense I am fascinated by some of the things you 've just mentioned in your introduction , the question of continuity in German history , how we , how this marvellous nation , the nation of Beethoven and Wagner and Marx and Freud , actually finishes up going to war twice against its European neighbours , and in the Second World War in particular committing these awful atrocities . |
| 16 | Mark : I certainly found quite a distinct difference between actually going out looking for sex , which I often associated with going to discos and , on the other hand , just making friendships which happened in a much more natural and less forced way . |
| 17 | So really you can actually avoid not coming into contact with it , but , two years ago , just really everywhere you walked there 'd be someone dealing or whatever , so you could n't really avoid it . |
| 18 | They bowed out of the European Cup at the hands of Dinamo Tbilisi , but they certainly went down fighting in front of around 6 , spectators . |