Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [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 this chapter I am struck by the dreadful pitfalls which seem to beset every step which the sociologist might contemplate taking in documentary research . |
| 3 | Leading on from last week we were looking at menu planning and I actually asked you to bring in some menus . |
| 4 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Come on we 're going back to this shove it in water business again . |
| 7 | If you could tell me what I 'm getting out of this turmoil I would be pleased to hear it . ’ |
| 8 | Increasingly Moran could be seen in the fields staring idly at some task he should be completing . |
| 9 | Instead of coming up for medical attention he was just sitting there , looking white , and Ruth was sitting next to him . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If all is running smoothly at this point you have two further pitfalls awaiting you . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When sailing independently in any yacht you 'll be responsible for port dues and paying for top up fuel . |
| 16 | As she was poking about for more loot I glanced back at Granny and saw that the sheet had moved again . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Following on from such work it was suggested that drugs which tend to increase the activity of acetylcholine might improve learning and memory . |