Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tall , lanky merchant was nervous and ill at ease , his hand constantly fluttering to his mouth or patting his greasy hair . |
| 2 | The work of different mosaicists might be visible here , so hinting at their number and therefore the probable diversity of subsequent developments . |
| 3 | Rather than fall , she clung to my arm — a gesture so trusting in its way as to melt the remains of my anger . |
| 4 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |
| 5 | If you 've got a question , shout , shout out to start you on and that start up encourages cos it so often happens yeah bop bop bop bop bop and somebody is still basically looking for their rucksack while all the rest are up the , half way up the mountain . |
| 6 | I woke at two o'clock lying on my kit and again at half-past three , doubled across the tent . |
| 7 | His grandsons remembered him as a very old man , fond of reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica and so failing in his memory that , when he dozed over one of the volumes , the boys would turn over several pages and he never noticed but read on from there when he woke up . |
| 8 | He shook his head , suddenly reaching for his drink and swallowing it in one quick gulp . |
| 9 | If you find yourself endlessly talking about your illness or your diet , as you may begin to do , make a big effort to occupy your mind with other things . |
| 10 | She had spent the evening smouldering with resentment after his callous dismissal of her father 's death , but now the biblical phrases Luke had employed earlier were suddenly hammering at her brain and heightening her agitation , although she suspected that she was playing into his hands by allowing them to do so . |
| 11 | The ‘ people like us ’ factor will ensure that , the greater the compatibility between what you are apparently conveying in your talk and what the other person values , the better the outcome . |
| 12 | We have a small group already praying for her protection and have seen our prayers answered . |
| 13 | Reveals Jon : ‘ I was just paying for my shopping when the gun battle started . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe he 's just staying with his mother until he finds a place of his own . ’ |
| 15 | They were just getting into their stride when they received an invitation from Lila to come to her place . |
| 16 | However , local authorities have had a duty , since 1968 , to provide adequate sites for gipsies normally resorting to their area and , where they have done so to the satisfaction of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment , they have criminal powers to remove illegal campers . |
| 17 | He was just warming to his task when Reed sold him out . |
| 18 | And it was presumably owing to their encouragement that in the 1540s Crecquillon began to compose chansons and Clemens and Gombert increased their production from a trickle to a flood . |
| 19 | Birkenhead , who had written after the victory of 1924 of ‘ the tragedy that so great an Army should have so uninspiring a Commander in Chief ’ and was usually more sparing with his admiration than with his criticism , allowed some balancing increase of his own regard for Baldwin to occur . |
| 20 | The children were apprehensive , none more so than the newcomers who were still struggling with their English and were generally mystified by events . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm still struggling with my driver but I 'm hitting my one-iron plenty far enough and putting quite well , ’ he said . |
| 22 | The first one was still exploding through my cortex as I gulped the second and reached for the third . |
| 23 | Other comparisons of the two systems , by Reynolds and Sullivan ( 1987 ) , Sutherland and Gallagher ( 1987 ) , and by Steedman ( 1983 ) , are inconclusive on the grounds that they are not comparing like with like but the outcomes of a well established and resourced system with one still grappling with its identity and purpose . |
| 24 | Well grandma sort of had it like , when she was like looking after me granddad and whatever like er it 's a different sort of kind of , it 's the same sort of thing , but you know , something different |
| 25 | He was always looking at his watch and saying he 'd have to go and — ’ |
| 26 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 27 | Moreover , the truth that matters is not what we feel , but the fact that God loves us whatever we feel , and his energies are always tending towards our health and well-being . ’ |
| 28 | The glamorous nightdress I 'd bought to wear for his visit was still lying in my locker and , instead , I was wearing a shabby old hospital gown . |
| 29 | Mr Joseph Bronson ( HMS Milne ) , of Helmington Terrace , Hunwick , is still waiting for his medal but is expected to receive it within the next few weeks . |
| 30 | Note that my right elbow is still pointing towards my hip and that my upper arm is close to my body . |