Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er there would have been some cases where that had happened erm and clearly the nationalists had withdrawn from most of southern China into , into south west China and therefore erm th th there 'd been er and there was quite a lot of fighting going , still going across south China so i it 's not quite the same . |
| 2 | By contrast to the barn owl , all the other species of owl showed some degree of digestion of the molars of their prey , even when clearly coming from adult birds only . |
| 3 | To minimise that advantage CERN is also concentrating on building magnets more complex and more powerful than the SSC 's . |
| 4 | Manorial rents fell and in order to avoid financial ruin some lords removed the villages and common fields and turned to direct farming , often preferring to farm sheep rather than grow corn which was less profitable . |
| 5 | The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves . |
| 6 | ‘ It is now moving towards balance sheet entirely . |
| 7 | Although many of us are now working around disability issues professionally , the lull in activity by self-organized disability groups such as SAD and the Liberation Network feels as though it might be coming to an end . |
| 8 | well he sits there talking at dinner times well then when she goes |