Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 2 | Every now and then I can see it all so clearly ; a nice log fire and a little round table with a tablecloth , and hot toast with great slabs of butter , and crumpets with honey all oozing out of the little holes , and a china cup with steaming tea — ’ |
| 3 | And then the railway lines themselves , snaking out secretly and backwards and then suddenly fanning out into a thousand arteries of shining black steel leaping through London and beyond to the places you can only imagine , the lines pulsing her brain with the excitement of where they 're going . |
| 4 | Imagine that you can hear the waves gently lapping on to the soft sand . |
| 5 | Mm you basically saving up for a complete system ? |
| 6 | It was a pleasant voice , with an undertone of humour , and Alexandra was immediately jealous , envisaging Matthew and his secretary in his office , laughing together , sharing jokes about his work , perhaps going out for a quick meal before they both went home . |
| 7 | We must make sure we do n't keep on disturbing the seed 's growth by constantly going back to the same people and badgering them . |
| 8 | Well there there are three there are three organizations or companies there that I think you 'd be er happier in especially going out for the first time and also er your style . |
| 9 | Unlike the varied operations and sequences of the unique ‘ one-off ’ products of jobbing production , the products of batch production are dealt with systematically in lots , or batches , only moving on to the next operation , when each lot has been machined or processed in the current operation . |
| 10 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 11 | He said Libya was not being ‘ stubborn ’ , but merely holding out for an honourable solution to the crisis . |
| 12 | Keeping things simple is often the best bet , an investment of both time and effort is required to learn anything new , so diving in at the deep end with one of the full-blown integrated packages may cause more disruption than it 's worth . |
| 13 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
| 14 | high I 'm only coming out with a ten flush , pair of aces , and a pair of eights would have been mine whichever way you played it . |
| 15 | The rock is a unique form of conglomerate , so warming up on a few practice routes was needed to get a feel for it . |
| 16 | Yet both sides expressed satisfaction that the Israeli-Palestinian talks were finally catching up with the concurrent negotiations between Israel and its other Arab adversaries , Jordan , Lebanon and Syria . |
| 17 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 18 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 19 | Erm , well what your mum and dad said to me is that he gets very worried , het up , really tensed about doing things , that 's going , you know , things that are gon na happen , like just driving down to a different place , er and he get 's himse himself so het up , so worried , he makes himself ill , I think that 's what 's happened |
| 20 | As he was talking , he was sliding out of bed , still trying to face his wife , but finally leaping up with a glad cry and rushing for the door , clad only in his pyjama top , his penis smacking against his thighs as he ran , as she noted . |
| 21 | Then turn to the opposite direction by stepping with the left foot about a shoulder 's width to the left , thus ending up in a left forward stance in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 23 | Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop . |
| 24 | I was just walking around with a huge grin on my face . |
| 25 | I was just walking back past the big , black marble vault belonging to the Chatwin family when somebody dodged out from behind it and grabbed me from the back . |
| 26 | I got to the changing room first and was already stripping off as the sixteen other boys in the class barged in flinging satchels and blazers everywhere and kicking their shoes off so that they landed underneath the slatted benches that ran along each wall . |
| 27 | I mean , I 'm well aware you do n't have to face single-handed and prattling , blowing your own cor-anglais and generally acting up before a captive crowd of thousands . |
| 28 | Rohmer was already pushing out through the front door after Duvall . |
| 29 | I mean really useful , not just waiting about for the next piffling stage part . ’ |
| 30 | They will then have to get money from the dole or the Benefits Agency , which will cost taxpayers a great deal more on top of the £25 billion that the state is already paying out for the unemployed . |