Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something else I 've left hanging rather dangerously in the air is another and rather different hint , and because of the close correspondence of their careers , the milestones along their way , Stephen Daedalus is merely another name for James Joyce , so that the portrait itself would be a blow by blow account of its author 's story so far , with the relevant identities politely concealed under pseudonyms . |
| 2 | It holds regular ministerial meetings to co-ordinate different aspects of policy amongst the Gulf States , including most controversially in the defence and security fields . |
| 3 | Since 1925 , it is true , gas has been used in some conflicts , including most recently in the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 4 | They waited for some long-legged creature to come stepping delicately out of the trees . |
| 5 | It looks as if there 's a wall sticking right out over the shingle . ’ |
| 6 | She heard him call after her and got into one of the swing boats with a pale , freckled little boy who was hanging nervously on to the rope while his plain , doting parents stood beside the boat , saying encouragingly , ‘ Go on , Sidney , it 'll be such fun . ’ |
| 7 | But United embarked on what Mr Ferguson dubbed ‘ kamikaze football ’ against City and ended up hanging on desperately for a point . |
| 8 | ‘ What did he say ? ’ said Masklin , hanging on tightly to the sweater . |
| 9 | Eurotunnel appears to be hanging on only by the skin of its teeth . |
| 10 | He pressed on and on , resting only briefly on a rock outcrop before continuing . |
| 11 | Based very loosely on the Pat Barker novel Union Street — so loosely in fact that the Robert De Niro character Stanley does n't exist in the original — Stanley and Iris manages for most of its length to say a great deal about struggling along just above the poverty line . |
| 12 | Laura gasped breathlessly as he raised his dark head , gazing fondly up at the man she loved so much . |
| 13 | As Ross watched her gazing fondly down at the babies , whose heads were already covered with dark hair , and — so Laura had firmly informed him — were carbon copies of their father , he knew that he was an incredibly lucky man . |
| 14 | In any case , sparks were riding the breeze and touching down far across the river in hidden gardens and remote rickyards . |
| 15 | We 'll go no more a-screwing So late into the night , Though the heart is still as loving And the moon is still as bright . |
| 16 | He speaks English in a curious way , that improbable Dutch-accent tongue slapping down hard on the vowels , like shoe leather on a dry pavement . |
| 17 | Several weeks ago Victor came crashing down out of a tree and on to his back . |
| 18 | That was why she was reacting so badly to the news that he had left Taipei . |
| 19 | Some in the low-lying places , who were heavily asleep , did drown as they lay , the water gathering so rapidly in every hollow . |
| 20 | Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality . |
| 21 | Just when his eyes were adjusting to the gloom , the novice ahead of him threw open a door , and Gabriel emerged into pale but blinding sunlight flaring in low through the window of the gallery . |
| 22 | Enough to remind her of the consequences of submitting so easily to a man who despised her . |
| 23 | OFF to a good start on the field , Crook 's cricketers are faring less well in the clubhouse . |
| 24 | Our confidence thus bolstered , we were now stepping eagerly out of the tent bound for Ancohuma . |
| 25 | The tide was rising : it came filtering gently in through the salt-marsh vegetation , washing up the beach and receding , leaving ribbons of foam along the sand . |
| 26 | The position of the outlets on the fascia board can be determined by a plumbline hanging down centrally over the gully or drain inlet . |
| 27 | Part of the rope still swung there , hanging down directly over the water . |
| 28 | About now , the first Hooray of spring can be seen stepping gingerly out of The Admiral Codrington and standing with his G 'n' T in the middle of the road . |
| 29 | ‘ But I do n't think either ourselves or Forest will be struggling down there at the end of the season . ’ |
| 30 | There was a thick concrete wall which we were all going to hide behind and we had our helmets on in case any car parts came raining down out of the sky . |