Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , how many people have watched a woman carrying a load of shopping and a three year old child , or cleaning up after an incontinent elderly relation , and still been able to maintain that some jobs are too heavy and dirty for women ? |
| 2 | Before settling an agreement or starting out on a particular course of conduct , a number of fundamental factors have to be taken into consideration . |
| 3 | ( b ) in requiring the measurement or weighing up of an historical problem . |
| 4 | Training should be as specific as possible and so for karateka I recommend either shadow boxing against a mirror , or working out on a light punch bag . |
| 5 | A delicately ludicrous picture comes into Howard 's mind of an enthusiastic little hiker with a rucksack on his back , trying to walk up the side of the Matterhorn , and tumbling back with an astonished look on his face . |
| 6 | And ending up with a thumping great lie . |
| 7 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
| 8 | This nearly always results in drifting further back without much gain of height and ending up in a worse situation than before . |
| 9 | ‘ And bouncing along like a rubber ball . ’ |
| 10 | Interested nurses may be invited to an informal gathering over coffee , or to a structured recruitment day addressed by speakers and rounding off with an open session devoted to local job vacancies . |
| 11 | The King is seen exchanging an earthly crown for a crown of thorns and looking up towards a heavenly crown |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ said Bernard , ‘ I too feel like going to a hotel somewhere and looking out over a blue Mediterranean sea . |
| 13 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 14 | When father and son were alone David stood warming his hands at the brazier , and looking down with a clouded face into the red glow . |
| 15 | He looked at her , and she saw him come erect , the magical mechanism of the male penis , lifting and filling out to a great rod the colour of a dull sunset . |
| 16 | It covered the whole of her face , shaping to its contours and jutting out with an exaggerated jawline . |
| 17 | Canada dominated the scoring , leading 22–6 at the interval and by 19 points in as many minutes with outside-half Gareth Rees , back after a winter in France , scoring the first nine and going on to a 20-point afternoon . |
| 18 | ‘ Did n't sleep well , ’ he said , mildly apologetic , snatching a bite of bread and cheese , gulping a cup of coffee standing before nodding curtly and dashing out into a freezing morning . |
| 19 | If I stand at the window ( which I am not going to do ) I can see a small fat man with a trilby hat , a British warm and what looks like a binocular case , standing down below on the other side of the road and peering up with an anxious concentration at this battered , paint-peeling semi-circle of so-called Mansion Flats . |
| 20 | Basinger evaded reporters and cameramen as she left the courthouse Wednesday , leaving by a sidedoor and rushing off in a black sedan . |
| 21 | His wet , cold body was aching and calling out for a hot meal and warm bed . |
| 22 | The redundancies were , the company says , incurred largely by its manufacturing operations , which it is currently scaling down and moving out to a smaller site in Alabama . |
| 23 | But still it is very carefully structured with a setting verse , a narrative verse and finishing off with a reflective verse and 10 syllables in each line and Futility has the same feeling of careful planning and construction . |
| 24 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
| 25 | Essex were , for a time , in some trouble after Munton had claimed two wickets in as many balls but Gooch , still snuffling after his touch of ‘ flu and coming in at an unaccustomed No 5 position , thwarted the hat-trick ball . |
| 26 | Suddenly he was in the enemy 's trench and staring down into a young German 's eyes , a terrified boy even younger than himself . |
| 27 | Eliot could not it first hear it either and bending down with a friendly expression , asked her to repeat the name . |
| 28 | When the time of Hasan 's Occultation came , they would , presumably , be swarming up the drainpipes waving scimitars and carrying on like a thwarted group of reporters from the Sun . |
| 29 | Erm we 're very good at lot of plans , practical working , and carrying out in a specific way . |
| 30 | The Keraing had told us that in the 1950s a military scouting party from Makassar had angered the village by entering the caves with special equipment and making off with a good deal of valuable porcelain — indicating it had also been used as a burial-chamber by early visiting Chinese mariners . |