Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] [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 human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That means keeping them out of the unpredictable British May weather . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | People sent their daughters to Cambridge School , dressing them up in the toffee-brown and pale-blue uniform Elizabeth Jarvis had selected . |
| 19 | And grabbing three of the smallest around their necks , he started pushing them out of the back door , into the fresh air , and towards the outer door of the boarding section . |
| 20 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 21 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 22 | She ran a shaking hand over the wispy tendrils , smoothing them back into the neat knot gathered at the nape of her neck , but without the aid of a comb or mirror it was impossible to return her hair to its usual immaculate style . |
| 23 | Back at the office , Schellenberg changed into a light grey flannel suit in the bathroom , speaking through the other door to Ilse Huber as he dressed , filling her in on the whole business . |
| 24 | Manville knew then that Hayman had been right in writing him off as a washed-up veteran . |
| 25 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 26 | ‘ Lapping it up like a weak kitten , ’ thought Fergus . |
| 27 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 28 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Pretty things , ’ wrote Sawyer and Darton of illustrated books in general , ‘ pleasant to fondle , more ready to display to a bibliophile those tiny points of an exquisite technique over which it is legitimate to gloat … the spot of ink adjusted on a Corinthian 's cheek to a thousandth of an inch , or a black line so thin and firm that you can almost see the metal caressing it on to the honest untimbered white paper . ’ |
| 30 | No transporting it on to the main road so they can took took it to the pit bot . |