Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |
| 2 | Each layer or sheet , of which there may be 50 or 100 altogether , contains fibres of the protein collagen all pointing in the same direction within the plane of the layer , so that each sheet has a readily ( if you have an electron microscope ) discernible direction or polarity associated with it . |
| 3 | ‘ So many separate bits of evidence all pointing in the same direction . |
| 4 | We have seen already that the small heads of some dinosaurs with elongated torsos were no doubt a built-in safety factor against crippling head injuries , while naturally restricting at the same time the development of intelligence . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , in modern society , our ‘ own ’ are rarely living in the same town or even in the same county as us , which makes the ideal situation very difficult to achieve . |
| 6 | So , in that spirit , you can put together a library from whatever source you choose — just trolling round the many Bulletin Board Systems using a fast modem can net you gigabytes of files , and some really good stuff too . |
| 7 | So just keeping on the same sort of subject , of sex , drugs and , |
| 8 | By different processes erm but nevertheless receding at the same rate . |
| 9 | It looked quite terrifying — but somehow enticing at the same time . |
| 10 | I feel it 's taxpayers money being wasted yet again , because they 're just going over the same ground . |
| 11 | TULFARRIS : Consistent last season but this term has saved best running for the all weather tracks . |
| 12 | He took this in suddenly one morning as he was charging a girl the duty on a camera , hitting the thought like an air pocket and ludicrously yawning at the same time with his mouth shut so that the girl noticed his face lengthening like a mule 's . |
| 13 | Both population and employment were already falling in the former London County Council area between 1951 and 1961 , and the process intensified in all cities after 1966 . |
| 14 | The Scots were meanwhile retreating along the same route by which they had advanced , but to a very different reception . |
| 15 | just working in the same room as him welding all them hours |
| 16 | We began our laborious task without once reflecting on the many dangers that might attend it . |
| 17 | We had never moved , always living in the same place , 18 Ravensworth Road , Kensal Green A late Victorian artisan 's house it was , a two-up-two-down with me and my parents on the top floor . |
| 18 | ‘ An Englishman named Woodhouse introduced winemaking to the town in 1773 , and his firm is still operating from the same premises . |
| 19 | So if your relationship breaks down you can not be charged each other 's Poll Tax bills , even if you are still living in the same house . |
| 20 | She 's probably still living in the same house , still teaching , still struggling with the Marmite and the Spinoza . |
| 21 | That monolith to Lasso Rinding Puang Sangalla , the last great king of the Star Children , was still lying in the same position when I next visited the Rante — eleven years later . |
| 22 | A note of the fact that they have started out equally separated from each other , are now marching in parallel straight lines , and we need to check later that they are still separated by equal distances and still going in the same direction . |
| 23 | Achieve the effect by having a number of loudspeakers at lowish level , preferably facing in the same direction . |
| 24 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |
| 25 | Always travelling in the same direction — a straight line . |
| 26 | Claudia raced for the towel ; he was still standing in the same place and still looking helpless as she dealt briskly with the spill . |
| 27 | Again we assume that we are still talking about the same man , that he has returned home to the location where the ‘ living room ’ we first met was located . |
| 28 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates reportedly came up with an ingenious solution when he was romancing venture capitalist Ann Winblad : observing that the same movies are usually playing at the same time all over America , they came up with the Virtual Date — they 'd each go alone to the same movie at the same time , and discuss it afterwards on their car phones . |
| 29 | But for larger numbers of mutational steps , even in the case of the biomorphs with their nine little genes , the mathematical space of all possible trajectories is so vast that the chance of two trajectories ever arriving at the same point becomes vanishingly small . |
| 30 | Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way . |