Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [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 | ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Willie gazed at the gentle way he fingered the udders and at the warm white liquid spurting down into a bucket underneath . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | KNOCKING AROUND for a while now . |
| 7 | The horses are walking round in a ring then . |
| 8 | Scorpios are supposed to be possessive , but Adam 's been acting more like a gaoler recently — he hardly allows you out of his sight . |
| 9 | Living out of a suitcase away from home and family has become one of the main causes of stress among businessmen , concluded a survey by the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 10 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 11 | It was her wedding picture , taken almost seven years ago , a picture of two blissful nineteen-year-old faces , confidently looking forward to a future together , a future that was destined never to be . |
| 12 | Miss Huntley claimed to have spent the Saturday by herself in and around her flat , doing a bit of shopping and cleaning before meeting a few friends — only one of whom appeared to have an address — and going on to a party around ten o'clock at night . |
| 13 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 14 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 15 | We hardly need to ask where this faith and belief came from , pouring in from a source previously untapped . |
| 16 | The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me . |
| 17 | Cos we 're only going away for a weekend then are n't we ? |
| 18 | Portsmouth , needing only a draw , made certain of going through with a second just before the interval . |
| 19 | I think very good at going through with a toothcomb anyway and I 'm sure that she could quite adequately . |
| 20 | Yes , to be fair Jenny came in er , on Friday to talk to me about it , but I just did n't have time , I was rushing off to a meeting so I 've |
| 21 | And if we draw a line it 's the analogy of someone pedalling on a bicycle , if you reach thirty five and you 're going up on a bicycle like that it 's reasonably steep but not too steep , you can cope with that on a regular basis . |
| 22 | I 'm going out for a minute anyway , . |
| 23 | How about going out for a meal instead ? ’ |
| 24 | We 're going out in a minute anyway . |
| 25 | If relearning to walk safely takes several months , going out in a wheelchair alone can prevent the patient from feeling too housebound and frustratingly dependent on other people for his mobility . |
| 26 | and that is also why , going back to a point earlier on , why I think erm counselling and alternative medicine , and so on , is marginalized it would be such a rock to the social order to actually acknowledge that people are in distress because it 's the social order that 's causing that distress . |
| 27 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 28 | First we may consider the phrase : ( 25 ) acrobatic performance In the light of the discussion above we may remark that this can be understood in either of two ways : first , as covering any performance which is so described because it is linked with the idea of an acrobat in the execution of his or her professional duties ; this would include expertise in juggling , tightrope walking , standing on one 's hands , and so on , even if they are performed by an amateur lacking any natural talent for the task ; second , ( 25 ) may be used to designate any performance which is acrobatic in itself , even if not part of the normal repertoire of acrobats , for instance , grabbing hold of a branch growing out from a cliff just after falling from the top . |
| 29 | Most players have a battered specimen lying around in a cupboard somewhere ; a few sensible types even use one as their main instrument , and as a result will probably retain their hearing well into the next century . |
| 30 | I going round for a collection too . |