Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get the activity in isolation you have to think of someone suddenly coming into existence with just enough of a world around him so that what he does and believes is just what the postman does and believes in the real world , but without any real environment . |
| 2 | In this population women who had had hysterectomy were more constipated than women with an intact uterus assessed by several criteria : more infrequency of defecation and slower transit time ( in older women ) , more straining at stool by both report and record , and a greater tendency to regard themselves as constipated . |
| 3 | He then telephoned Ken Berry , to begin the task of urgently calling in money from abroad . |
| 4 | While making the film , Crawford had been getting up at 4.30am each day , going to the studios , performing on stage in No Sex , Please — We 're British , then going to bed after 11pm . |
| 5 | Dublin can not bring itself publicly to renounce its territorial claim to the North , while privately living in dread of ever having to acknowledge a direct responsibility for Northern Ireland 's Protestants . |
| 6 | But women have been actively asking for ordination for more than sixty years and their patience is running out . |
| 7 | And so she got through the week , surviving mainly on humour and philosophy , but occasionally resorting to sarcasm with particularly obtuse patients . |