Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , she overcame her fear — with other schoolchildren she had sometimes ganged up to cry ‘ witch ’ at Kitty , delighted when she ran after them , gleefully scudding away like infant demons scattered by Beelzebub . |
| 2 | On Thursday we drew the whole thing together ending up with team practice and looking at the videos in the evening . |
| 3 | Yet , as much as reversion to primitivism , so settling back into childhood enjoyment and innocence was undesirable to Eliot . |
| 4 | But he said : ‘ We are a clear second in the table — and not just hanging on by goal difference . |
| 5 | However , the increase in SSA enrolments was 24 per cent , only just keeping up with population growth , whereas in the final matriculation year ( Standard Ten ) , the increase was 327 per cent . |
| 6 | In fact she was just checking up on room service , wondering if it was too late to order a plain omelette and salad in her room . |
| 7 | She was just coming out of Credit Agricole , having cashed some traveller 's cheques , when she saw Antoinette emerging from the pharmacie opposite . |
| 8 | RUNCORN fans were tonight sitting down with club officials at Canal Street in what chairman Dave Robinson described as a ‘ clear the air meeting . ’ |
| 9 | He said : ‘ Because of the operation I am restricted in the physical activity I can do , so I was just messing about with music tapes after the operation when I got around to singing . |
| 10 | World mile record holder Steve Cram , still building up towards peak fitness for his Olympic qualifying bid , could turn out for his club , Jarrow and Hebburn , over 800 metres in a Pamasonic Northern League match at Leeds , which also features Teesside rivals Mandale and Middlesbrough . |
| 11 | For , ‘ Two decades after the Brown decision ’ he wrote in 1974 ‘ we are still struggling inconclusively with school desegregation ’ . |
| 12 | They were still driving up to Blood Rock . |
| 13 | The truth is , she would say , I 'm still looking forward to life beginning . |
| 14 | Even if Kirov was still listening out for radio contact , he was unlikely still to be in direct touch with the pilot . |
| 15 | It 's the new Protagon , the tennis racket which sounds like a drug but which plays like an old friend , the loyal doubles partner who helps you to cope with the important things in life , things like how to fox the club champion who usually knocks you off without ever getting out of auto pilot mode . |
| 16 | ‘ It is n't just long steady runs — in fact I did n't do any more plodding about before Twin Cities than I do for my 10,000m training . |
| 17 | In the mid-1980s , drainage contractors in the Midlands are still moving in on river valleys , starting with the stream itself and then clearing every adjacent hedge and copse as part of the same contract . |
| 18 | But , just as many writers have taken Virginia Woolf as an mandate to waffle in subjective , near-incoherent mode about matters domestic without a sliver of her context , variety of perspective , real innovation and sheer writing genius , so many fey sprites are still dicking around with fairy stories , dry old myths and ( oh dear , oh dear ) the tale . |
| 19 | ‘ The use of bed and breakfast is still hovering close to record levels , ’ says Pawson , ‘ It is only through the boom in short-term leasing that boroughs have been able to avoid further increases in hotel placements . ’ |
| 20 | We are both pulling off into Polo Park , a large two-storey shopping mall which is our city 's pleasure palace of conspicuous consumption . |
| 21 | Junior Health Minister Baroness Cumberledge told a London news conference yesterday the report pointed to a levelling off of Aids cases among homosexuals and HIV infection was also slowing down among drug users . |
| 22 | ( i ) instantly providing up to date information on individual employees . |
| 23 | They 're also fighting back at arson attacks on their property , with the new Farmwatch scheme . |
| 24 | However , the world tourism market is fiercely competitive and becoming ever more so with the countries of Eastern Europe now opening up as holiday destinations . |
| 25 | We 're now looking forward to teacher appraisal and the opportunities that this will give s school staff to enhance their own future development . |
| 26 | But we , w we as of nineteen forty nine or early nineteen fifty , it 's clear that we are , there , there , there 's nothing to stop us now going ahead with land reforms , there is no question it 's going to happen |
| 27 | Scrolling through the A2 's patches it soon becomes obvious that it 's crammed full of great sounds , although , as usual , some do need severely sorting out for ouput level , which means that there 's no escaping learning how to program the thing ! |
| 28 | With its current penchant for clamping down on perceived violations of its copyright , AT&T 's Unix System Laboratories Inc is now coming down on Unix Solutions for its use of the Unix logo in its company name . |
| 29 | Many employers are now cutting back on company cars . |
| 30 | Undoubtedly , some local education authorities are now spending less on adult education than we think that they should be spending . |