Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | These workers regarded themselves as temporarily relieving their parents of the burden of supporting them and perhaps contributing something to the overall family budget . |
2 | An election may also be a realigning one in that it produces a long-term shift in the balance of support between the parties , perhaps installing one as the new majority . |
3 | Skipper Kevin Hopkins and scrum-half Robert Jones have been quite superb recently , but also enjoying something of an Indian summer is Mark Titley on the wing . |
4 | He was bent over the prow of a little wooden sailboat — he was obviously having a rest from speedboat practice today — and was busily tightening something with a big screwdriver . |
5 | To achieve a fine white printing quality , the paper is oxygen bleached , thereby having none of the detrimental effects on the environment which are inherent in the conventional chlorine bleaching process . |
6 | I see so we 've got the five officers who went into the flat now coming one after the other |
7 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
8 | ‘ Frank has to prove himself by really beating someone in the top ten . |
9 | The first type was silently saying something to the second type . |
10 | They feel nothing about seriously mutilating someone for a trivial reason . |