Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I stood beside the drill and kept looking up at this line we had just made ; and it was like a gun-barrel . |
| 2 | Looking back over some lectures I gave in the early 1980s , I note that the division between the schools which could raise money and those which could not was even then causing me concern . |
| 3 | Looking back over this chapter I am struck by the dreadful pitfalls which seem to beset every step which the sociologist might contemplate taking in documentary research . |
| 4 | There were thin elegant ones for the most delicate of lines ranging out to thick ones you could grip hard and slosh around in bold , creamy-coloured strokes . |
| 5 | Leading on from last week we were looking at menu planning and I actually asked you to bring in some menus . |
| 6 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |
| 7 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
| 8 | Come on we 're going back to this shove it in water business again . |
| 9 | Because erm even going back to those days it was the bright ones that were pushed forward and the the sort of dog take the hinder most sort of thing you know . |
| 10 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |
| 11 | — ( in answer to How are you getting on with those jobs I asked you to do ? ) |
| 12 | They had to walk , and a real hike it was — getting on for three miles I think . |
| 13 | If you could tell me what I 'm getting out of this turmoil I would be pleased to hear it . ’ |
| 14 | Increasingly Moran could be seen in the fields staring idly at some task he should be completing . |
| 15 | Instead of coming up for medical attention he was just sitting there , looking white , and Ruth was sitting next to him . |
| 16 | She says , I 'm ever so sorry for coming up at that time she says , but I did notice Maggie 's light were n't on that 's |
| 17 | Coming back from this explosion he checked the damage — in the tradition of his Corps — and heard the gurgle of water flowing into the dry-dock . |
| 18 | If all is running smoothly at this point you have two further pitfalls awaiting you . |
| 19 | have to wait twenty five to eight before he 'd come in , how he was coming here at that time I do n't know . |
| 20 | Once a day he was to practise his relaxation technique and his breathing exercise and then , in the privacy of his own bedroom , to try reading aloud from any book he chose . |
| 21 | When sailing independently in any yacht you 'll be responsible for port dues and paying for top up fuel . |
| 22 | Despite soldiering on for three days she finally admitted defeat when frostbite of the labia majora forced her to abandon the job . |
| 23 | As she was poking about for more loot I glanced back at Granny and saw that the sheet had moved again . |
| 24 | After three or four pages , he found himself wandering the streets or pacing anxiously through some park he did n't even recognize , twitching and murmuring strangely to himself while mothers , at the sight of him , drew their children to them and stole softly away across the grass . |
| 25 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 26 | Following on from such work it was suggested that drugs which tend to increase the activity of acetylcholine might improve learning and memory . |