Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 2 | She will run in another 5K road race in Carlsbad , California on Sunday : ‘ It should be a cracking race , judging by the field , ’ said Boyle , before returning home to prepare for the outdoor season . |
| 3 | Sound symbolism is not just a matter of a certain number of words containing certain sounds happening also to fall into the same semantic area . |
| 4 | Pausing only to pull on the lightweight wrap that lay across the foot of the bunk , she grasped the torch more firmly and peered cautiously around the curtain . |
| 5 | Refusing even to mix with the amateur plebs in the Olympic Village , the Dream Team 's Charles Barkley explained : ‘ Custer did n't eat with the Indians . ’ |
| 6 | It is important to note , before going on to look at the main body of legislation in detail , that prior to 1980 , when insider dealing first became a statutory offence ( by virtue of Part V of the 1980 Companies Act ) , the legislative means of curtailing the practice was limited to disclosure provisions contained in general companies legislation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He made films like Sanders of the River ( 1935 ) and The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) , featuring courageous British aristocrats going off to fight for the British empire , not out of a sentimental admiration for those times , but because the Empire provided good stories , as Hollywood also found at the time . |
| 9 | Tactical voting appeared to have taken the form of latent Tories turning out to see off the much-advertised threat to the Union . |
| 10 | ‘ You wo n't be going back to work for a few days , I 'm afraid , Francisco . ’ |
| 11 | Going back to work in a different job helped for a while , however . |
| 12 | In the West African republic of Liberia where eighty five per cent of the population have been displaced , children , some as young as eight are being placed in secure compounds to prevent them from going back to fight for the waring factions . |
| 13 | Cardiff pushed Jimmy and the girl called Barbara after them , turning back to look at the ragged aperture through which the storm was venting its fury . |
| 14 | Illness forced his resignation , but having recovered his health , Cilby resumed work , founding missions in Birmingham , Somerset and Cornwall before going abroad to work for the deaf and dumb in South Africa and in the West Indies . |
| 15 | Stepping up to bat in the eighth inning of game five on Sunday with the scores tied 1-1 , the Giants first baseman had trouble controlling the adrenalin , ‘ but I took a deep breath and tried to focus on the point of release of the ball ’ . |
| 16 | Drifting outside to sit in the cooler evening air , Ace , Benny and Petion chatted together . |
| 17 | On the same day , 7 May , in Rheims , in the course of surrendering all German forces in Europe , Gen Jodl had claimed that " no force on earth " could stop Gen Loehr 's forces in south-east Europe breaking through to surrender to the British and Americans . |
| 18 | Some of the passengers must have been up just after dawn to watch the huge liner ease its way gently alongside the dock , and those who were n't were beginning gradually to emerge on the upper decks , or to enjoy breakfast by one of the pools . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Apart from that there is no strong reason for one method rather than another although as the first year has lower production than later years it would be difficult in terms of wearing out to argue for the reducing balance method . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | An outside agency , experts on tele sales , spent four days teaching how to deal with every conceivable request that a customer could make . |
| 23 | Avoid trying to jump white water , aiming instead to jump at the steepest part of the wave which is normally the part about to break , the critical section . |
| 24 | Six UK cable television operators , Comcast Ltd , General Cable Ltd , Diamond Cable Ltd and three of the Baby Bells , Nynex Corp , Pacific Telesis Group Inc and Southwestern Bell Corp are coming together to apply for the Personal Communications Network frequencies freed up by the merger of the Unitel consortium with Mercury Personal Communications Ltd : the companies want licences to offer the cellular service within their franchise areas , CommunicationsWeek International says . |
| 25 | He 's the chief executive of the one of the biggest advertising agencies in the country , he 's coming in to talk about the thirty something phenomena here in the nineties now . |
| 26 | It was like coming in to land on the wrinkled hide of some sleeping behemoth . |
| 27 | There were the people coming in to shuffle through the little magazines , Zen Buddhism , Burroughs , Ginsberg , Nuttall , New Departures , Circuit , four letter words , and Indian music . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It argues , in no uncertain terms , that levels of exploitation undreamed of outside the sweatshops of the Third World are coming home to roost in the depressed urban ghettos of the West . |
| 30 | Claudia felt as if she were running hard to remain in the same place . |