Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number plate 's only hanging on by one screw . |
| 2 | The Dodge mounted the kerb , headlights suddenly stabbing out on full beam . |
| 3 | With world manufacturing prices growing at less than 1 per cent a year , international competition prevented much passing on of higher unit labour costs . |
| 4 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 5 | By now it was all adding up to one conclusion . |
| 6 | No-one likes a relationship to fail , and most of us strive to stay in one , only giving up with great sadness and when the good in whatever we have shared is finally outweighed by the bad . |
| 7 | I was just catching up on some paperwork . |
| 8 | Thirty-nine years after Roy became a schoolboy football star on the front page of the then new comic , Tiger , he is finally bowing out of big time . |
| 9 | What happens to those who are already going out with another boyfriend when they discover they are pregnant ? |
| 10 | It 's already going out on this month 's Crimewatch . |
| 11 | Proud of the rapid development time for the 601 , the two companies are nevertheless rushing on to complete work on three other promised iterations of the part , now under development at IBM 's Somerset plant in Austin , Texas . |
| 12 | I 'm just going back along this run for Nildro-hain . |
| 13 | There was nothing to reach for , no aching energy of ambition to move him ; as far as he could see , he was just kicking around in medium comfort and waiting to get old and die . |
| 14 | Going for a walk , arranging to meet a friend , or just getting on with some DIY , hobby , or relaxation exercises are all likely to occupy the mind more effectively . |
| 15 | ‘ We see the volume just getting down to that core set who will see increased demand , ’ he said , adding that the industry 's top 10 companies had 58% of 1992 sales . |
| 16 | I 'm just coming up to this shop when this girl stops me . |
| 17 | Just finishing off on electrical energy . |
| 18 | Many of us are already cutting down on red meat , partly for health reasons but also because of , as Audrey Eyton explains ( see p.56 ) , the growing awareness that animals being farmed intensively are neither happy nor tasty . |
| 19 | ‘ We did n't even know it was being taped — we were just warming up for another track by playing the song . |
| 20 | I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described ( except that it is cold , spacious , severe , pale and remote ) and then , as in the other examples , found myself at the very same moment already falling out of that desire and wishing I were back in it . |
| 21 | Troopers of the rearguard were already falling back in reasonable order . |
| 22 | From inside the room it must have looked like he was just hopping off into empty space , say goodbye to Buck Rogers , a suicide leap over a thirty-foot drop . |
| 23 | Big record companies no longer send massed talent scouts here and — judging by Terry Christian 's depressingly banal pop column in the Manchester Evening News — they are not exactly missing out on buried treasure . |
| 24 | Like it or lump it , the world is slowly turning on to Graphical User Interfaces , whether they be Windows , the Apple Mac 's operating system , or the Next — not forgetting OS/2 v 2.0 , of course . |
| 25 | We will introduce a new nation-wide ‘ Rents to Mortgages ’ scheme , enabling council tenants to take a part-share in their home , gradually stepping up to full ownership . |
| 26 | Suddenly , somewhere off to the rear , came an yell of alarm and the roar of a shotgun going off , followed by three more blasting off in quick succession . |
| 27 | ‘ No more dressing up for some time . |
| 28 | Is a search still going on for missing material ? |
| 29 | And it 's still going on for another season . |
| 30 | Is your brother still going out with that bird ? |