Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stylistically it asks few questions , becoming quickly locked into a limited area of harmonic discourse . |
| 2 | They included an ugly marble penstand presented by the retiring Prime Minister which George never used but displayed as proud evidence of the biggest mistake a civil servant can achieve : becoming too identified with a political figure . |
| 3 | Coming out of the loo , she found Drew , looking equally ravishing in a blue striped shirt rolled up to show very brown arms . |
| 4 | Well , I was wandering around looking for a rococo palace … ’ |
| 5 | Nor , presumably , would you go swimming fully dressed with a small weekend bag slung over your shoulder . ’ |
| 6 | Physicians should be aware that the diagnosis of CO poisoning still depends on a high degree of clinical suspicion and direct measurement of CO . |
| 7 | But er everybody thinks oh you 're going away stay in a nice hotel . |
| 8 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 9 | ‘ You wo n't be going back to work for a few days , I 'm afraid , Francisco . ’ |
| 10 | Going back to work in a different job helped for a while , however . |
| 11 | But the pace was much too hot for Beris , and when he peeled off after five laps Hupsith toiled on alone , slowing noticeably to finish in a modest 14 mins 20.3 secs . |
| 12 | After 1,908 days of terror Joe was looking forward to living a normal life and getting back to work as a senior administrator with the American University . |
| 13 | Charles and Alex drank a lot , but Charles did n't feel the relaxation he normally experienced when getting quietly pissed with a fellow actor . |
| 14 | Moreover , there is such a difference between one man and another that the man of 70 may still be at a higher level than the man of 20 at his peak : although the latter , starting so to speak from a lower level , will normally reach the later age at a much lower point than the former . |
| 15 | When he came back , his face was so strained with worry that I felt the sting of another guilt , and I smiled properly ( having just finished with a not-too-terrible pain ) and put out my hand to him to show him I was better . |
| 16 | I got the news of the fall of Shatila in London , having just returned from a fund-raising trip in the Gulf countries . |
| 17 | We had almost half an hour of this , then brown , wet walls of rock closed us in , the sound of the engine grinding upwards reverberating in a deep cut , the foglights accentuating the macabre theatricality of our struggle up the path through which Pizarro and his four hundred armoured hidalgoes had climbed to destroy the Inca Empire half a millennium ago . |
| 18 | He would be coming round to collect in a few minutes ' time . |
| 19 | On 14 June Baldwin was still living in 10 Downing Street , MacDonald having helpfully retired for a post-election holiday at Lossiemouth . |
| 20 | Instead , it suggests that the balance of curriculum elements should be reversed , with the student learning how to practise as a professional , and that the ‘ theory ’ should be derived by inviting the student to reflect on the practice to tease out the principles embedded in it . |
| 21 | — O the Pleasure of counting melancholly Clock by a snoring Husband ! — But now , Sister , you shall see how handsomely , being a well-bred Man , he will beg my Pardon . |
| 22 | There were , of course , plenty of people who did not view catching a plane at the shriek of dawn , fighting for a patch of sand big enough to spread a handkerchief , suffering appalling hangovers from over-indulgence in Spanish ‘ champagne ’ , and arriving home burnt to a painful scarlet wearing a ridiculous hat and clutching a straw donkey too big to stand on the television , as travel . |
| 23 | Occasional gestures towards the girls being included in maths are made , typically , via a girl sipping tea or standing decoratively posed in a mini skirt in a phone booth . |
| 24 | When , drawn by a magnetism she was unable to resist , she looked his way again , he was gone , the place where he 'd been standing now occupied by a stout lady in an unbecoming striped sundress . |
| 25 | The last thing she needed tonight was Victoria swanning around looking like a juvenile femme fatale . |
| 26 | ‘ Why are you standing there looking like a startled deer ? |
| 27 | Having said that , my playing never sinks below a certain standard , although sometimes it 's hard to tell if you 're actually improving , because you 're so close to it . |
| 28 | Although the President promised to use his second term for a new " crusade " to secure peace and prosperity within the USA , he offered few new prescriptions for the ailing economy , preferring instead to concentrate on a broad agenda which included less government and lower taxes . |
| 29 | Comforting images of Sir Len batting still fell like a warm velvet hood over Yorkshire eyes . |
| 30 | The kiss and branding also appear in a fifteenth-century Italian novella . |