Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other behavioural strategies included eating slowly in a room away from the kitchen , preparing all food thoroughly before starting to eat , rather than eating standing up during cooking . |
| 2 | Lenin clearly accepted the need for administration and administrators , but by a democratically controlled set of routine offices rotating widely among the population rather than by a ‘ special stratum of the population ’ . |
| 3 | Clinging to the hillside amid scenic splendour , these houses sternly defy gravity by not tumbling down to the sea below . |
| 4 | ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued . |
| 5 | It is n't large , like his château in Brittany , rather it is a charming summer pavilion , with French windows opening on to a terrace all along the façade of the house . |
| 6 | Walking down towards the pueblo again , seeing the roomy spread of small farms , the elegant eucalyptus trees which shade them , a handful of birds break from the tall lupins . |
| 7 | The character of the whole place is best assessed by walking down from the castle rather than climbing east to west . |
| 8 | Willie gazed at the gentle way he fingered the udders and at the warm white liquid spurting down into a bucket underneath . |
| 9 | He was last seen climbing alone below the summit early this morning . |
| 10 | Both focal and central places were important in the past and the concept is useful in explaining much in the landscape today . |
| 11 | Furthermore the referee , Colin Hawke , from New Zealand , ruined the game as a spectacle by blasting away in the whistle almost non-stop , awarding a penalty or a free-kick every two minutes or so , mostly against Scotland . |
| 12 | Turned it round on the way back driving merrily towards the arch very happily past the pub on the left and the playing fields where they were about to play rugby I suspect . |
| 13 | Next morning , as Wemmick and I walked back to London , I noticed his face becoming dryer and harder , and his mouth becoming more like a post-box again . |
| 14 | With a sharp pang of defeat , he noticed Benny dive headlong through the weakened window , ending up in the water below with a huge splash . |
| 15 | That had been their agreement , and , if she was walking out on the deal earlier than expected , it was as much his fault as hers . |
| 16 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 17 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 18 | Walking back alongside the canal again was familiar and reassuring . |
| 19 | If the court is satisfied ( by affidavit or other evidence ) that prompt personal service can not be effected because the debtor is keeping out of the way so as to avoid service , it may order substituted service in such manner as it thinks fit . |
| 20 | This makes landing accurately on the spot just a matter of timing the opening of the airbrakes and co-ordinating the elevator movement . |
| 21 | The front half of a fox , paws and all , its rear end replaced by a shield-shaped slab of polished wood , appeared to be leaping out of the wall just below the picture rail , in the manner of a circus dog emerging from a paper hoop . |
| 22 | An example of presentation infidelity , uncovered in our survey , was where companies showed a series of columns sloping back towards the right away from the common baseline of the X axis . |
| 23 | Spencer by now was n't very pleased , Elstree were n't very thrilled about him landing back on the runway either , and with the hydraulic fluid gone , there were no flaps either . |
| 24 | KNOCKING AROUND for a while now . |
| 25 | When the alarm was given , the animals would be driven into the ground floor of the Pele Tower , the local families would ascend a ladder to the first floor , the women and children climbing again to the bower above and the men to the roof , where they would repulse the invaders . |
| 26 | The horses are walking round in a ring then . |
| 27 | Speeding away from the village never to return — or parked just around the corner ? |
| 28 | ‘ I 've set the table outside on the terrace , ’ Fernando told her , stepping through from the kitchen beyond . |
| 29 | And when I found Dr Kenneth , he told me someone had seen Isabella and Heathcliff meeting secretly in the garden earlier that evening . |
| 30 | Then , looking down at the book again , she went on , ‘ Are you sure she 'll be happy in the room next to mine ? ’ |