Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 2 | But it 's just lying in the bank dormant and it 's not making any interest I know it 's not being , I know we 're not being charged but |
| 3 | Right , but presumably if that , that work 's not just going by the board that 's , that 's right |
| 4 | It was only just getting over the shock 21 years later when an apparition sauntered past St Paul ‘ s School and round the corner of Gartocher Road into Shettleston Road . |
| 5 | Extra riding by the hour available . |
| 6 | something just approaching from the south two thousand feet one zero one niner , and now turning eastbound er , via to pick up the M twenty five clockwise . |
| 7 | I do n't know , I was just sitting on the grass one day , down by the river . |
| 8 | She adds : ‘ I 've worked since I was married 15 years ago and I could n't imagine just sitting around the house all day . |
| 9 | She was still lying on the carpet five minutes later when he left the apartment . |
| 10 | Your PP tells you where the first five are , always starting with the object This might be as follows : |
| 11 | STRACHAN Never beaten in his heart and always penetrating on the ball 8 |
| 12 | 16 officers are still working on the case full time . |
| 13 | From that point they were to make over a hundred films together , some thirty of them silent ones , and with their best work probably deriving from the phase 1929–35 , when they were engaged in creating coherent and sparse twenty-minute cameos . |
| 14 | While it is also bidding for the Channel 5 licence , the Astra service is more controllable and is free from the perceived whims of the Independent Television Commission and the high stakes of the bidding process . |
| 15 | I think she must have thought that Miss Moberley and Miss Jourdain , temporarily living in the year 1789 , had not been impeded by walls built after that date ; but I am sure she must have misread her map . |
| 16 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 17 | Ace was lounging on the sofa next to her , his shoeless feet now resting on the table next to the coffee , Kate 's glances of distaste having been completely ignored . |
| 18 | As I expected , the jeeps were now arriving with the Commando dead and wounded from the areas around the village . |
| 19 | On the landing the only sound was Jos 's deep snoring from the room next door . |
| 20 | The company 's oil-producing activities have been concentrated in the north , but operations are increasingly expanding in the south due to escalating militant action from tribal groups . |
| 21 | Gwendolen , still clad in dark blue , was indefatigably marching with the party next to a most sympathetic lady . |
| 22 | That 's that 's one thing , but is finding the tenth root of something and then raising to the power six , or raising something to the power six and then finding the sa the tenth root , is that the same as finding the fifth root and cubing it or cubing it and finding the fifth root . |
| 23 | ‘ And the school term ends in another week , which means the children either mooching around the house all day under-occupied or vanished and one 's wondering where the hell they are . ’ |
| 24 | AFTER a weekend of hard talking between Michael Knighton and Martin Edwards , the Manchester United chairman , the 37-year-old property developer 's advisers were publicly sticking to the line last night that his £20m take-over bid for the club was ready to proceed . |
| 25 | He 'd done no more than accidentally bump against some sailors aimlessly wandering from the passage next to the warehouse . |
| 26 | Mrs thinks that that is best provided by two carers living in the house , each on duty for half the week , such carers being directly employed by the , by contrast Mrs says that an agency should provide a carer all the time from its available pool , she envisages that in practice three or four carers would share the work , they differ over the full number of hours care to be provided by hired carers , Mrs envisages seventeen hours a day in total , Mrs ten hours , again I emphasize that the artificiality of the working in precise number of hours , where you have somebody actually living in the house all the time and available to er carry out active care at any time , but of course carers are not always having to do things which might be described as active care . |
| 27 | Then he 'd sit for a while , occasionally glancing at the figure next to him , until at last he 'd lean towards the other 's ear . |