Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squeaking and even gasping with the great good humour of it all . |
| 2 | Seeing that Yet returned to the room and went behind the curtain to prepare us the meal Frankenstein had promised , he lowered his voice and continued , ‘ I bestow my gift of the secret of life upon mankind . |
| 3 | This made them hold the glider down and often caused overspeeding or even overrunning of the cable or parachute . |
| 4 | The strong sense of community between living and dead expressed in the frequent injunction in wills to pray for the soul of the deceased and to endow a priest for this specific purpose witnesses to a feeling for a purpose in existence beyond that of material well-being . |
| 5 | Both of them jump back slightly as a cat darts in front of them as they leave the park , they both watch it running across the road without looking and then scramble up a wall to window ledge . |
| 6 | I ran to him , stumbling and nearly falling on the rough stones of the jetty . |
| 7 | As the audience saw themselves on screen they began to ‘ perform ’ for the cameras and within minutes the whole audience was cheering , singing and even dancing in the aisles . |
| 8 | From swimming in one of many pools or boating on the lakes , to riding , tennis , hiking or just soaking up a mountain dark tan . |
| 9 | This is mainly what we are concerned with here , as it these areas that can cause us problems when designing and then transferring to the console . |
| 10 | It was simply a case of going , going and then gone for the Information Technology manager as Wimpey Hobbs ’ Alice Richards — a trained first aider — got to work with the razor . |
| 11 | Every movement within a form teaches him to defend by blocking or manoeuvring and then to attack with a strike or a kick . |
| 12 | Parallel to this education and close round the school , the life of the community goes on — the child plays and is expected to play a very full part in it ; fetching water and firewood , minding little brothers and sisters , running errands , buying and often selling in the market , performing religious duties at Koranic schools , catechist classes or in traditional preparation for circumcision and other initiation ceremonies , alongside all the watching , the imitation , the play , the chit-chat and the ‘ mucking about ’ which is part of growing up everywhere . |
| 13 | On April 2 higher prices , including the doubling , trebling and even quadrupling of the prices of many basic food stuffs , were introduced for many retail goods and transportation and communications services . |
| 14 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 15 | From simple pastimes such as hiking in the company of qualified guides , to tennis , to golf , riding , fishing , rafting , mountain biking and even paragliding for the adventurous , Saalbach-Hinterglemm has it all . |
| 16 | It was alright at Euston Station on the way up because we had plenty of time for loading — but — on the return journey we could see the train approaching while still careering through the country lanes on our coach . |
| 17 | More typically , the individual child stands at the teacher 's desk , muttering or stentoriously chanting for a few minutes , until checked by the ticking of a card which is slipped into the reading book at the page he or she has reached , or is expected to reach " by next time " . |
| 18 | Jack watched the guard dialling and then waiting for a nerve-stretching length of time . |
| 19 | Therefore the cylinder was alternately heated by steam entering and then cooled by the jet of water . |
| 20 | The sections were incubated in 5% normal rabbit serum to reduce background staining and then incubated with the monoclonal antibody to bromodeoxyuridine ( Dakopatts , Denmark ) diluted 1:100 with phosphate buffer for one hour . |
| 21 | The result of all this has been that proponents in the press of the fashionable pro-government doctrine of ‘ new realism ’ have somehow found themselves spending most of their time constructing and then reporting on a fantasy world . |
| 22 | One might argue , indeed , that his departure from power was a blessing in disguise for him , because it left others with the disagreeable but unavoidable job of extricating France from this cul-de-sac , by recognizing a powerful West German state and ultimately accepting German rearmament , by fighting and then retreating from a bloody colonial conflict in Indochina . |
| 23 | How far can the actors depart from their parts with improvization and adlibbing and yet remain within the accepted , culturally defined , conventions ? |
| 24 | Prince Charles had been talking and gently agitating about the subject for many years . |
| 25 | It was all so innocent but Fred 's face had darkened and he had become quiet as he went about his work , the occasional grunt of irritation replacing the tuneless whistling and humming that usually emanated from the kitchen . |
| 26 | In ballets such as Petrushka and Rodeo they are wandering around , watching and occasionally responding to the dancers ' efforts . |
| 27 | Education was necessary in cultivating this belief , for though it could not abolish the monotony of labour , ‘ it can add value , meaning and even pride to the vocation of the worker if it helps him to understand his relations with his fellows , the importance of his contribution to the national task ’ . |