Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No — she was presumably seeing to the food and Rupert did n't look the kind of man who would be good at arranging flowers . |
| 2 | Er right walking on the beach and he a genie came out when he rubbed it and he goes oh no way man . |
| 3 | interact positively with other group members in an increasingly wide range of situations , eg collaborating on an assignment where a specific outcome is required ; |
| 4 | Just altogether less demanding on the child as well as on the mother . |
| 5 | It is important to bear in mind the fundamental rule of agency law , that the acts of an agent are only binding on the principal if the agent had actual or apparent authority to perform those acts . |
| 6 | iii Caretaker or lost child : This child takes responsibility for the family and looks after it by gently blending into the background and keeping the peace . |
| 7 | To identify a fluttering shadow as the outline of a bird is not so revealing as the recognition that it is actually cast by a butterfly . |
| 8 | Then there was a loud knocking on the door and more shouts from the crowd . |
| 9 | It can get busy at weekends — especially Sundays , with walkers , cyclists and horse-riders and the occasional car or four-wheel drive all contributing to the wear and tear of the track . |
| 10 | Two of them are ‘ common ’ sails , in which slats could be adjusted manually according to the speed and direction of the wind . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 12 | There they had clung together shivering in the dark while Angel One had stood on the ladder , watching through the slit of the partly open trapdoor until the advancing enemy cordon had safely passed , driving the fugitive sect heavies before them . |
| 13 | Shrewsbury stood around there , apparently looking for the offside and in the end it was an awful effort at goal . |
| 14 | I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm only going on the fact that I I tend to do everything on the cheap so I tend to get if I can find somebody who does photocopying I can do it then we 'll do it . |
| 15 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 16 | The new town is literally blooming with the growth that foreign investment has brought . |
| 17 | As a general rule , when the demand for a resource is such that it is allocated for two thirds of the available time , then programs spend twice as long waiting for the resource as using it . |
| 18 | This was a most enjoyable set , with the orchestra obviously delighting in the direction and the audience lapping it up . |
| 19 | As soon as the patient becomes familiar with the feelings he experiences during his physiotherapy treatment , he can practise pelvic movements at home , perhaps lying on the floor if he does not have his own plinth or a firm surface on his bed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Waves D , C , B and A show progressively greater degrees of retardation , with resulting greater degrees of refraction until wave A is not only breaking against the point but also against the sides of the headland . |
| 22 | It was a nightmare of a trip , the trucks constantly breaking through the crust and having to be dug out . |
| 23 | v. Perry , 1987 F.L.R. 237 the court had to consider circumstances which differed from those in the present case and in Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon in that a responsible official of the creditor bank took it upon himself to discharge any duty that might exist in the circumstances by personally dealing with the wife when she executed the documents under attack . |
| 24 | Damages are assessed on the basis of the damage naturally arising from the breach and in the contemplation of the parties . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The ‘ social optimality ’ approach can be refined to deal with the problem without necessarily resorting to the conclusion that ‘ self-interest ’ on the part of politicians and bureaucrats is proven . |
| 27 | It is not so much the fact that she was consequently unable to vote for her father 's party , or , any other party for that matter , that I find so diverting as the reason that The Daily Telegraph gives for her binning her poll application material . |
| 28 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 29 | Look at singer Linda Hopper , quite literally hopping on the spot and grinning like a hyena in an amyl nitrate factory . |
| 30 | Its corpse lay at her feet , slowly sinking into the moss and mud . |