Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When students fail to make explicit the relevance of a piece of information , they are usually seen as not understanding or merely relying on memory . |
| 2 | He was trembling and so drenched in sweat that his hair lay like streaks of black paint upon his forehead . |
| 3 | They had made love before of course , a gentle , tentative , lovemaking that never came to fruition . |
| 4 | A low wattage bulb glowed half-heartedly beneath a grubby glass lampshade and on the wall to her right was a light switch , round and brown , and set against an embossed biscuit-coloured paper , fading and patchily stained with damp . |
| 5 | It was the Lemarchand woman who would be hurting and probably fuming with impatience . |
| 6 | Lime was particularly good for coppicing and its timber prized for turning , furniture making and much used in coachwork . |
| 7 | The beans are ground as soon as possible after roasting and either packaged for use in percolators and cafetières or freeze dried to make instant coffee of distinction . |
| 8 | And so to take examples among longer poems a new kind of satire , Dryden 's Absalom and Achitophel , is in fact a mock-epic , attacking and yet leaning for support upon Milton 's Paradise Lost ; even the extremely violent novelty of T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land reminds us of a Renaissance or Arthurian version of its text , which is rarely present on the surface but against which the poem reverberates and resounds most deeply . |