Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 2 | The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night . |
| 3 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 4 | It is clear that the derivation of the high number of word paths from mid-classes and the problem of filtering them out at the lexical access stage means that syntactic/semantic information must be brought to bear as soon as words are accessed . |
| 5 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |
| 7 | Firefighters have rejected a one point five per cent pay offer bringing them closer to a national strike . |
| 8 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 9 | But it can learn to comprehend a series of events by bringing them together into a cohesive , learned pattern to form a language . |
| 10 | By promoting economic aspects and bringing them out into the open for everyone to see , we are contributing towards better informed decisions on the part of prescribers and policy makers alike . ’ |
| 11 | Linear earthworks were the means of manipulating , channelling and containing vast flows of terrestrial energy , drawing them out of the central plateau area of the chalk uplands and leading them , sometimes for miles , towards places where they were required to boost the existing subtle currents . |
| 12 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 13 | That means keeping them out of the unpredictable British May weather . |
| 14 | The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah . |
| 15 | Secure the wire ends by twisting them together for a short distance to prevent the turns trying to unwind themselves . |
| 16 | Slowly curl the dumb-bells upwards to shoulder height , twisting them gradually during the full movement until the palms are facing you . |
| 17 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 18 | Perhaps the best way to familiarise yourself with the sound of specific intervals is by relating them back to the major scale based on the root of the given chord . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 20 | On the air at five o'clock very soon Tim driving you home plus the early evening sequence till nine . |
| 21 | He grappled with Slatter , tearing him away from the motionless body . |
| 22 | She was in the cafeteria a short while later , steadfastly keeping her back to the huge windows with their wonderful view of the skiers outside , when a hand descended on to her shoulder , making her start in alarm . |
| 23 | A few weeks after their visit to the Peristrephic Panorama , her father was rowing her slowly across the serpentine lake on the neighbouring estate of Lord F- . |
| 24 | In spite of his explanations they 'd insisted on signing him out at the little cabin , and he 'd snatched the case out of his car and run back , wondering why it always rained . |
| 25 | Rather , it first , made full divorce somewhat easier and cheaper , opening it up to the upper middle class , second , made judicial separation more expensive and more rare ; and third , continued to deny the poor access to either . |
| 26 | They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea . |
| 27 | A harry torrent flooded through the opening and in no time at all the herd was legging it back to the high land in a wild stampede . |
| 28 | All she succeeded in doing was knocking it farther over the slithering groundsheet . |
| 29 | He was basing it only on a recent knowledge of Trueman and the belief that his committee colleagues are capable of doing whatever it takes to preserve their ill-gotten privileges . ’ |
| 30 | Across the fire Travis studied his cup before tossing it away with an irritable gesture . |