Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That it was all undignified , that it was really rather unpleasant , that it was somehow dehumanizing for Harold — these considerations went by the board as he finally rolled on top of her , grunting fiercely in a tone no one at Magdalen would have recognized . |
| 2 | A pair of arms locked around his waist and the whole world jerked sideways as the dragon rose out of its long dive , claws grazing just for a moment the topmost rock on the Wyrmberg 's noisome floor . |
| 3 | I think I ended up by having just over a pound a week or something like that . |
| 4 | Sure , I was standing here with a hole the size of an elephant 's nose guard in my four-set clause . |
| 5 | The third version of the St Cecilia Ode of 1683 comes on Hyperion from the King 's Consort under Robert King using instead of a choir an octet of distinguished soloists ( including James Bowman , Michael Chance and John Mark Ainsley ) . |
| 6 | Rose Choque is fourteen , she works here every day , earning just under a pound a day . |
| 7 | So , leaving aside for a moment the difficult question of whether to accept the kind of association between kinship system and technological level postulated by Morgan , Marx , and Engels , it is not surprising that modern anthropology reveals no such association between technology and kinship terms . |
| 8 | Leaving aside for a moment the question of the cogency of this argument , on its surface it reveals a decisive break from liberal principles . |