Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Robert Layton , from Leominster in Herefordshire , takes off for Portugal on Saturday , he 'll be literally flying on a wing and a prayer , a wing of nylon and a prayer for good weather . |
| 2 | We 're looking down here , obviously standing on a hill because here we 've got some plants which are on the hillside and there 's a river here so we 're on sort of a fairly steep slope , I would imagine , down to the river , looking over across these vineyards . |
| 3 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 4 | She noted the flicker of a smile as he came into the kitchen and poured himself a cup of coffee , but she ignored him , turning her back as she scanned the phone book , desperately hunting for a garage that was reasonably near to this god-forsaken place . |
| 5 | It is already leading to a resumption or the land improvement work carried out by the crofters in the sixties , with the help of the College of Agriculture and the Crofters Commission , working closely together . |
| 6 | you know , cos we were all single I think all of us were and we were just going for a joke cos seriously it 's just a cattle market at you know you do n't talk to people well you do but it 's just a laugh . |
| 7 | I remember driving down to Leith on that Friday night , and just going for a walk and thinking that the next time the sun came up I would be playing at Murrayfield . |
| 8 | It 's much easier just belonging to a club and not having |
| 9 | The limousine was finally slowing to a halt and they scrambled for their shoes . |
| 10 | After a decade of being made to feel that you were somehow lacking as a person if you did n't manage to cram thrice-weekly workouts into your schedule , it was high time that a good reason not to exercise emerged . |
| 11 | We 're not talking of rounding , we 're just talking of a function that 's made up . |
| 12 | This was a digitally-recorded album , so you 're just playing into a microphone and what you 're getting back through the headphones tends to be a little dry and sad . |
| 13 | The structure of the turbulence is thus changing in a way that produces a faster approach to laminar motion , perhaps because the generation of eruptions ( Section 21.6 ) is suppressed . |
| 14 | Well , I mean , say it 's like that where you just polishing with a cloth or something |
| 15 | The stations all followed the standard plan with a freight and/or baggage room at one end , the waiting-room at the other , the agent 's office with its bay window in the middle , and accommodation for the agent and his family , usually consisting of a kitchen and living-room , downstairs at the back of the station with up to four bedrooms upstairs . |
| 16 | We 're usually knitting with a card that was designed as single-colour tuck or slip . |
| 17 | Many carried Fusil Gras rifles , usually resting on a shoulder and held by the barrel , or horizontally across the back of the neck supporting both arms . |
| 18 | Moreover , disc junkies are said to spend hours happily bending over and going through the layers of CDs , are always hunting for a bargain and collectable item , and seldom believe in paying the full listed price . |
| 19 | We are still developing as a group and learning as we go along . |
| 20 | Yet in the late 20th century sound recording is still developing in a way that older media are not . |
| 21 | The British imitators are still whispering to a city that 's still in bed . |
| 22 | This significant discover is being further evaluated during 1992 and 1993 , by an extended well test of Tempa Rossa 2 which is currently underway , a new seismic survey and by further drilling including a re-entry and deepening of the original discovery well in the Laurenzana permit . |
| 23 | She wants to do bareback ridin' in a circus and show 'er legs like all them circus girls do . |
| 24 | Like sitting in a chair and drinking a cup of tea . |
| 25 | For Ashcroft Noble had never forbidden his study to children , and Helen later recalled seeing Edward at the end of a visit still standing by a bookcase and reluctant to leave . |
| 26 | After lectures , theatre openings , at private parties , I would infiltrate his circle , usually posing as a reporter or a photographer , and while he tried to snub me , I pretended to ignore his ignoring me . |
| 27 | She was gabbling nervously , she realised , gradually petering to a halt as the implacable dark face did n't register any reaction whatsoever . |
| 28 | If you are sincerely dieting in a way that has led you to lose weight in the past , just stick with the same regime for a further week or two . |
| 29 | He admitted three charges of illegally camping in a lay-by and two charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice by giving a false name to police . |
| 30 | However , CDS is also working on a project that will lead its customers out of the R6000 dead-end , given that MIPS has now ruled out further iterations of its ill-fated ECL part . |