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 's probably only one of the local kids sneaking in for a look around , ’ Jessamy tried to reassure herself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Willie gazed at the gentle way he fingered the udders and at the warm white liquid spurting down into a bucket underneath . |
| 6 | Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 9 | I want you — take me , ’ she whispered , twisting now in a way not designed to keep him away . |
| 10 | KNOCKING AROUND for a while now . |
| 11 | For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’ |
| 12 | The horses are walking round in a ring then . |
| 13 | With a twinge of conscience it occurred to her that it was not often Omi got out ; a rare trip to the theatre or a concert , Wannsee in summer , or Potsdam , but in the winter she was trapped in the flat , passing long , lonely hours looking on to a street where little happened . |
| 14 | No longer will you find yourself pushing on to a point where you say " that will do " and hastily include a few rounding off sentences . |
| 15 | Scorpios are supposed to be possessive , but Adam 's been acting more like a gaoler recently — he hardly allows you out of his sight . |
| 16 | Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 19 | After a hundred yards or so , the drive divided , leading in one direction towards a classroom block , in the other fanning out into a courtyard where cars were parked either side of the main entrance . |
| 20 | There 's somebody looking out of a window up there , looking a bit worried . |
| 21 | They were for teenagers , looking ahead to a life where anything wonderful could happen . |
| 22 | Impressed ‘ I was looking forward to a night out with the England Students squad on their training weekend at Bisham Abbey , but I wo n't say no to a bit of warm weather instead . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 26 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 27 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 28 | As a result evidence … clearly showed that the two Constables had been idling and gossiping together at a place where one of them had no right to be … [ and ] that the Acting Sergeant , on his round of inspection , met these two Constables together , failed to note in his book , as was required in the regulations , the place where and the time where he met them , and to see that the Constables then noted in their books the time and place of his visit … |
| 29 | We hardly need to ask where this faith and belief came from , pouring in from a source previously untapped . |
| 30 | The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me . |