Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That should stop Pat Eddery or Peter Scudamore suddenly appearing on a horse instead of an obscure rider . |
| 2 | She and Boldwood were obviously going for a ride together . |
| 3 | He was suddenly spoiling for a fight again . |
| 4 | people are just looking for a diversion so erm |
| 5 | The vamp was soon turning into a lady again though , and by the third song , a moody version of the classic Little Anthony and the Imperials hit ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , the audience was seeing a sophisticated side to Kylie too . |
| 6 | I 'm just going for a piss now I 'm not fucking going to the toilet . |
| 7 | But I said that and sort of just holding on a level now like , is n't it ? |
| 8 | He is described as playing tricks on Jewish moneylenders in order to finance his soldiery , and generally behaving in a manner very far from what one might expect from the deeds of similar heroes such as Roland , Ogier or Lancelot . |
| 9 | He was prepared to sit there listening , just putting in a remark now and then to keep things moving . |
| 10 | You know , nobody 's expecting three or four sides , right , you 've got quarter of an hour , not erm , you know , if , if you can write a side a half you , you 'll be doing much better than most people , alright , so you 're just thinking about a side really , depending on how big your handwriting is . |
| 11 | ‘ Working for industry makes you intensely more accountable than just working for a university ever does . |
| 12 | time , erm presumably going into a library quite a lot . |
| 13 | By the afternoon , most have mastered the basics and become competitive , usually leading to a race home . |
| 14 | The heroes of both these plays arrive upon the scene in a dramatic manner — adventurously entering through a window instead of prosaically walking in the door . |
| 15 | Not only are they moving away , but often they are also moving to a place totally unsuitable for elderly people . |
| 16 | If a strip of the tissue that has yet to segment into somites is cut out of a chick embryo , turned through 180 degrees and replaced , the somite formation proceeds normally up to the site of the graft , but will then continue from the rear edge of the inverted piece , the sequence now going in a direction opposite from normal until the operated piece is fully segmented , and will then continue normally , again from the rear edge . |
| 17 | Although the survey vessel was now travelling at a speed faster than light , its occupants experienced no sense of progress other than that which was fed to them through the navigational telemetry . |
| 18 | Gracious me it 's ten to two now yakking on a lot today er Beverley Craven this is and er Love Scenes we 'll get er chunk three of Nottinghamshire 's Big Bang on before two . |
| 19 | We can improve on our previous gloss for now , by offering " the pragmatically given span including CT " , where that span may be the instant associated with the production of the morpheme itself , as in the gestural use in ( 53 ) , or the perhaps interminable period indicated in ( 53 ) Pull the trigger now ! ( 54 ) I 'm now working on a PhD Now contrasts with then , and indeed then can be glossed as " not now " to allow for its use in both past and future . |
| 20 | Ben had hardly put his feet on the ground when , from the side of the house , there emerged what appeared to be a mob of children coming at them in a rush and then skidding to a halt about three yards distant . |
| 21 | A similar distinction lies at the base of J. R. Walsh 's treatment of the muftis : doubtless writing about a period later than that under consideration in the present study , he states , in regard to what Hezarfen would call the that aside from the occasional retired kadi or " a member of one of the local learned families in the larger cities , … the were not of the class " . |
| 22 | Robert Stern , currently farming on a tenancy just outside Evesham , Worcs , is a cash buyer . |
| 23 | The purpose is to check that you are not just having a prolonged holiday but are actually living as a resident abroad . |
| 24 | I 'm not actually talking to a teenager though I can be talking to anyone . |