Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of ranging widely over a many possibilities , therefore , we will focus briefly on just four important and current aspects of multimedia which are sure to extend their influence dramatically during the 1990s . |
| 2 | Most of these seemingly alert young men , acting as sentries for their sleeping comrades , are soaked to the skin and looking forward to a little sleep themselves before the final push against the enemy . |
| 3 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 4 | I have been persuaded by the publishers to adopt the spellings on the latest maps of the Ordnance Survey and where these differ from those previously accepted have done so with reluctance , rebelling only in a few cases of change in long-familiar names . |
| 5 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 6 | yes , I should n't mind going away in a few weeks , if , if |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm fine now and looking forward to getting home for a few days . |
| 8 | I was doing things I knew that I would be doing properly in a few years . |
| 9 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 10 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
| 11 | Korea 's Samsung will start doing so in a few weeks . |
| 12 | The ceremonies lasted for a month and millions attended , many coming only for a few days . |
| 13 | Nobody else was importing much beyond a few bottles of sweet red sparkling stuff from Crimea , so he had the field to himself . |
| 14 | After trudging disconsolately round a few bars , I went back to our cheap hostel , where to my relief I found Dana snoring in the double bed we were to share . |
| 15 | Building the ark was n't a matter of nipping to the DIY shop and coming home with a few boxes labelled ‘ Flatpack ark ’ . |
| 16 | She eschewed all requests to be interviewed about the contest on radio or television , opting instead for a few newspaper interviews with sympathetic journalists . |
| 17 | Best wishes and thanks for making the old rag worth reading again for a few years … |
| 18 | With boards travelling at up to 25 knots , the emphasis is on not falling since in a few seconds the fleet will have zoomed past and gained a huge advantage . |
| 19 | But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation . |
| 20 | There was no rain in the darkness , and she could make even its sound go away by concentrating hard for a few moments . |
| 21 | Unless the heart starts beating again within a few minutes the person will die , and in fifty per cent of all fatal heart attacks the victim dies within thirty minutes . |