Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was all developing into a video nasty . |
| 2 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 3 | More important is the ability of companies to increase earnings per share by enough to push share prices any higher at a time when they are already trading on an average 18 times earnings . |
| 4 | ‘ No , I was just lookin' for a bit more money , honest , ’ gasped Dolly , the knife a hideous threat . |
| 5 | To cap a highly successful conclusion to the season — in which the Berkshire side first out-matched defending champions David Lloyd , Heston and then , in the Grand Finals , beat the top seeds Ilkley — the club No. 1 Gary Drake was named the special Grand Finals ‘ Player-of-the-Tournament ’ by Wimbledon referee Alan Mills , and drove away smiling in a brand new £15,000 Vauxhall Astra convertible . |
| 6 | Does your kitchen look like an operating theatre , or are you still cooking in a replica Sienese farmhouse ? |
| 7 | VIRGIN Atlantic 's owner , Richard Branson , who is seeking compensation from British Airways for dirty tricks against his airline , was still waiting for an agreement last night . |
| 8 | In the name of balancing government spending , still heading for a deficit this year , social security and unemployment benefits were cut and eligibility requirements tightened . |
| 9 | My watch must have been gradually slowing to a stop all day . |
| 10 | Dawn ( 4.8 ) made a symmetrical pattern of squares with pegs , then filled in the rest of the board , working across and down , always putting in a peg next to one already there but the colours were haphazard . |
| 11 | There was a time when he would n't have noticed it , but these days he was a little touchy about things like that , especially as Fran was now living with a man fourteen years younger . |
| 12 | Health spokesman Vic Shroot said : ‘ We are now looking for a pilot willing to fly the plane . |
| 13 | Many of us probably purchased a camera in the seventies or eighties and it is probably now sitting in a cupboard unused , following the invasion of the small fully-automatic camera . |
| 14 | Plumb , though he mentions horse racing , with working-class spectators , and prize fighting , is really talking about a culture dependent on literacy , not about traditional sports , and about an added dimension to bourgeois life . |
| 15 | Remembering that we are here dealing with a community first to exile and then returned to an impoverished and divided land ( i.e. |
| 16 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 17 | It is not difficult to form a physical picture of what is actually happening at a re-entrant such as a crack , especially if we consider the matter upon a molecular scale . |
| 18 | Total spending per pupil on special schools and related provisions is currently running at a level four times higher than on pupils in ordinary mainstream schools . |
| 19 | The shattered hovels which half the poor in this kingdom are obliged to put up with , is truly affecting to a heart fraught with humanity . |