Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 2 | Just walking behind that hut where you got your tickets for the putting-green . |
| 3 | Try walking into that dressing-room after they had just lost by an innings . |
| 4 | Her eyes were prickling with ridiculous tears when they all settled back down to eat . |
| 5 | Now we 've got to race against time again , this is not just happening in NUPE it 's happened all over and it 's gon na it 's happening in this union before it starts . |
| 6 | Years elapsed in his memory just as light years were elapsing in ordinary space as they fled onward . |
| 7 | We need to know what is happening to mental hospitals because they still contain most of the country 's long stay ( continuing care ) beds . |
| 8 | but also notes that some such as Young ( 1974 ) have argued that geographers have failed to realize the potential of contributing to human ecology because they were overconcerned with environmental determinism . |
| 9 | For who could imagine that an early nineteenth-century Zuwayi , involved in a dispute with his brothers , or cousins or remoter kinsmen , would refrain from applying to Turkish authorities if he thought that might help him win ? |
| 10 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 11 | Then continue walking at this pace until you feel ready to go on to the 30 day walk back to fitness programme later in this chapter . |
| 12 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 13 | Ian was still looking for surviving elephants when she arrived back . |
| 14 | The police took his house apart looking for possible clues after she vanished from a leisure centre car park . |
| 15 | We 're looking for good candidates whether they 're men or women . |
| 16 | He moved along the hedge , feeling the breeze from the south and looking for some spot where he could sit and scent it without too much risk . |
| 17 | Magistrates agreed to delay sentencing for three months so he could take the holiday . |
| 18 | And of course , he 's searching for these chemicals because he believes they will make him well again . |
| 19 | There is a lot of work involved in looking after domesticated horses because they rely on human beings for all their food and water . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't think it 's any use looking after old people unless you really care and really like old people . ’ |
| 21 | The British were thus pushing against half-open doors when they recommended a compromise . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't fight me , ’ he said huskily , face flushed and eyes glittering like blue needles as he held on to her easily , his mouth burying in her hair , his heart thudding hard at his strong chest . |
| 23 | In Emily Carew 's presence he was kind and polite and remarkably subdued , listening with infinite patience when she lapsed into wistful nostalgia as she recalled the days when Carewscourt was the centre of social activity in this part of Mayo . |
| 24 | Compare retailing with other sectors where IT has been used extensively . |
| 25 | They seemed unaffected however , and threw their heads back , howling with unnatural laughter as they twisted their bodies in ever more contorted movements , some of them even brushing into one or other of the fires and continuing their dance as if they had n't noticed . |
| 26 | Charlie aged eight with a stinking cancerous hip who propelled himself flat on his back on a trolley made from a pram base , flipper-hands paddling , olive , oval face — too big , all their faces were too big — grinning with flickering contempt as he wound skilfully round Stephanie 's ankles , his foul air preceding him , and behind him decay and a whiff of disinfectant . |
| 27 | A friend and follower of William Blake in his youth , Palmer was living in great poverty when he received the commission to illustrate Pictures From Italy after Stanfield 's defection ; time was short , and he provided not the 12 plates originally planned but four vignettes engraved on wood . |
| 28 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 29 | Surely we 're not going to sit cowering in this place because we 're frightened to go and see him . |
| 30 | — Continue pausing in this way until you feel completely confident that you can follow the main points of the programme . |