Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now , in these last few days , he had watched its golden leaves fluttering down to form a glowing carpet at its foot , as the autumn winds tossed the great boughs this way and that . |
| 2 | Which is all very well , but nobody 's phoning in to accept a silly offer . |
| 3 | I am grateful to our member Vic Smith for stepping in to fill a vacant gap in April . |
| 4 | Though the yarn was prepared and spun in the new water-powered mills in the valleys , weaving long remained a domestic craft that was practised in the older settlements on the hillsides . |
| 5 | He has , he says , been ‘ overwhelmed ’ by the kindness and support he has received , and for the moment is relishing not working a 14-hour day and seeing more of his wife and four children . |
| 6 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 7 | Three visitors from Frankfurt , Germany , recently visited ACET 's offices before returning home to begin a similar service , Christian AIDS Help ( CAH ) . |
| 8 | The focus on timetabling also adds a different dimension to the concept of reciprocity in family responsibilities , in showing how the nature of the calculations which individuals must make itself changes over time . |
| 9 | Beat the egg and add to the potato mixture , blending well to make a smooth dough . |
| 10 | Tool using thus covers a broad range of activities throughout the animal kingdom , from the mindless and mechanical to the considered and imaginative . |
| 11 | She tore her eyes away from his and pushed through the crowd , wanting only to put a great distance between herself and Lucenzo . |
| 12 | If we apply the yardstick of affection and respect to all our dealings with the elderly and they feel this in everything we say to them , most of the small problems which are bound to arise when we are living together stand a reasonable chance of solution . |
| 13 | This restriction , however , merely limits Mr Nesbitt , who is chairman of the casino company Crockford 's , and Mr Isaacs from conspiring together to start a rival record chain . |
| 14 | Writing also provides a permanent representation , hence the writing may be manually edited , thereby simplifying the identification of false starts . |
| 15 | The voice startled him and he spun round , looking up to see a young woman standing there . |
| 16 | Graham Tennant , 81 , has been writing poetry for a hobby since he was 10 and his poem Looking Back taking a humorous look at the Biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah has been judged one of the top ten funniest poems in a national competition judged by comedian Ronnie Corbett . |
| 17 | Socialists should now be addressing how to build a new organisation rooted in the offices , factories and communities as Labour once was . |
| 18 | I I 'm not certain that they were particularly group organised , but er , certainly I shall be looking forward to deposit a large number of files there from our group . |
| 19 | ‘ All right , ’ Agnes said resignedly , ‘ so what it boils down to is that , despite your assurances to the White House Protective Detail , you 're sneaking off to do a little sleuthing on your own ? ’ |
| 20 | After a five day course on reach truck driving Derek scored an outstanding 85 per cent in the written test before going on to give a perfect display of driving for the examiners . |
| 21 | Pat told the Careers Officer : ‘ I 'm going on to become a professional footballer ’ . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Hopeless , I know , ’ said Karelius , going on to relate a fictitious story of the difficulties encountered by one of his farmer patients in obtaining payment for fodder . |
| 23 | ‘ I was going home to get a new hearing-aid . |
| 24 | But despite their superstar status , the band refuse to change their lifestyle and have snubbed the showbiz establishment — turning up to collect a recent award in their pyjamas . |
| 25 | Even worse , opponents ' wives are turning up to keep a beady eye on proceedings . |
| 26 | Soon he would be going out to start a new life . |
| 27 | A 13-year-old white kid living in Kensal Green going out to buy a Blind Lemon Jefferson album , I ask you ! |
| 28 | If the flow rate should increase for any reason , the lava may burst out over the levees , flooding out to form a new branch of the main flow , and this ‘ break out ’ will itself rapidly become established between levees . |
| 29 | Before rushing out to buy a new bathroom suite , you need to think carefully about how the room is used . |
| 30 | We 're going to stay with racing now to see a sporting dream come true … |