Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [coord] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After much balancing and juggling with cocoa , book and dog they all three eventually reached the attic . |
| 2 | Just sitting and looking into space , or just carrying about on their own . |
| 3 | D'Arquebus himself was at once sneering and praying for clarity . |
| 4 | Several of the people involved in the ZETA story , directly or as spectators , are still working or living in retirement in and around Harwell : many of them feel that the publicity and interest generated in ZETA made many politicians and administrators aware of fusion , and helped to gain support for the funding of Culham Fusion Laboratory which was built during the early 1960s . |
| 5 | After the final number , when all the dancers came offstage whooping and whistling with relief to crowd into the showers , Lucy followed Josie around in a final inventory of wigs and clothing and then generally cleared up ready for the next night 's work . |
| 6 | I I find this quite extraordinary Chairman after two years of consistently arguing and voting in committee and at council , they appear to have been bought off by the Labour group and now intend to support a fudged half merger , half federation option . |
| 7 | Exploring it means either walking or travelling by mokoro , a shallow punt in which you are poled along reedy channels and across carpets of water-lilies by tireless guides . |
| 8 | Nowadays most computers have several methods by which an operand may be specified : we have met direct addressing and indexing in Chapter 1 , and the other methods are discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 9 | The invited speakers are either themselves practising in the clinical area or currently speaking or writing about childbirth matters . |