Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was grinning and smirking too much by far . |
| 2 | The City Fire Inspectors later concluded that the fire was caused by a " freak focus " , due to the rising sun catching and reflecting off one of my holographic magnifying mirrors . |
| 3 | ‘ You mean they were probably lying or coming over romantic about the past , and , what 's more , all those old poets were probably doing the same thing . |
| 4 | In such contexts , organizational decision-making is far removed from the ideal image of planning , organizing , motivating and controlling so beloved of classical management theorists . |
| 5 | had to go to a breakdown , the poor bloke did n't know whether he was coming or going so one of these situations that stress stress arrives . |
| 6 | So called hotting and joyriding around some of the Oxford Estates with stolen cars has contributed to a massive increase in carcrime . |
| 7 | The stiff rein indicates that the horse is not carrying or pushing as much with that inside hind leg and so it is easier for him to shy ( and so stop going forward ) , if he is not working as well in the first instance . |
| 8 | I was shaking and sweating so much in the confessional I thought I was going to faint . |
| 9 | ‘ The knowledge of the works of God proportions our admiration of them , they participating and disclosing so much of the inexhausted perfections of their author , that the further we contemplate them , the more footsteps and impressions we discover of the perfections of their Creator . ’ |
| 10 | Barbarossa 's death by drowning as described around 1250 in the Gotha manuscript of the Saxon Chronicle . |
| 11 | Roping in XTC guitar technocrat Dave Gregory to tweak the dials , ‘ Leggy Mambo ’ ( shortened from its original handle , ‘ Leggy Mambo Gold Top Copy ’ ) is an engaging , colourful pop offering that sounds shockingly mature in places . |
| 12 | Roping in XTC guitar technocrat Dave Gregory to tweak the dials , ‘ Leggy Mambo ’ ( shortened from its original handle , ‘ Leggy Mambo Gold Top Copy ’ ) is an engaging , colourful pop offering that sounds shockingly mature in places . |
| 13 | Fewer flyers took after the cold killer , von Richthofen , than after Boelcke and Navarre , who both hated killing and aimed whenever possible for the engine instead of the pilot . |