Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driving away into the city streets , she 'd never felt so alone or so friendless in her entire life . |
| 2 | The odds and the prize money here were considerably higher than at Bampton and as Seb was walking away from the race officials with his winnings , a voice in his ear said , ‘ Put that money somewhere safe , Seb . |
| 3 | They skirted the lawn , keeping close to the flower borders . |
| 4 | Los Angeles 11pm , Wednesday April 29 : Driving home past the movie studios that line Melrose Avenue , Chuck D 's angry rap bounces around my head : ‘ For all the years we looked like clowns . |
| 5 | They also believe that the safety of a husband 's life and his prosperity depends on their scrupulously following all pollution taboos and keeping strictly to the purity rules . |
| 6 | It is present throughout the universe , the flow of energy into and out of the body occurring particularly at the energy centres known as ‘ chakras ’ , at the base of the spine , the sex organs , solar plexus , heart , throat , brow , and the crown of the head . |
| 7 | He frightened train crews who saw him walking aimlessly on the railway tracks as if he were a real person . |
| 8 | Meeting together at a disability arts event can also provide rare opportunities for disabled people to exchange ideas . |
| 9 | Imagine a model person living upstream of the model mountains . |
| 10 | Now I think in our experience so far we find that erm the accounts clerks in the back office are those who are most likely to be bashing away at the character terminals , those are the people who are bashing data into the system . |
| 11 | Joseph noticed that she avoided passing close to the iron grilles closing off the between-deck areas of the ship and when she reached the stern she gazed into the jungle for a moment , then closed her eyes and lifted her face to the gentle warmth of the morning sun . |
| 12 | Cylindrical ducts shield the propellers and increase thrust at low forward speeds , by preventing air from spilling sideways around the blade tips . |
| 13 | It seems that the Secretary of State will seek to safeguard the existing pension rights of those who work in the subsidiaries by looking closely at the buy-out proposals and that he will not favour any buy-out proposal which does not give some future security of pension rights to the workers who will be affected . |
| 14 | Here she , not he , is the anxious worker , soon dressed , pausing briefly over The Guardian Women 's Page and muesli before climbing into her clapped-out Renault and heading for her own day of action . |
| 15 | She hung around for a while , looking aimlessly into the shop windows , wondering if she should go and have a coffee in the Franz Joseph , just in case he was there . |
| 16 | Rooms gaped empty on the next landing , their doors gone for firewood , paper stripped and plaster crumbling away from the lath walls . |
| 17 | But today , the talk in the line-up at The Pit — the line of surfers waiting just beyond the breaking waves — is more sombre , and centres on the local sewage problem . |
| 18 | Several of the plant species have extra-floral nectaries but almost all the plants can be found growing away from the ant nests and the ants can form nests without the plants so that , despite the apparent advantages to both plants and animals , the relationship is not obligatory , though Codonanthe spp. are not found away from the nests . |
| 19 | A third branch of the communications flowing out of EUCOM goes over landlines to the European headquarters of the US Air Force at Ramstein , Germany , from here the messages split up , going directly to the control centres in the convoys and to main operating bases such as Greenham Common . |
| 20 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn 's books , for example , are selling well on the street stalls ; so are the works of Mikhail Bulgakov and the poet Osip Mandelstam . |
| 21 | Turning then to the mevleviyet kadiliks , he served successively ( and apparently uninterruptedly ) as kadi of Damascus ( 977/1569 ) , Egypt ( 978/1570 ) , Bursa ( 979/1572 ) , Edirne ( 981/1573 ) , and Istanbul ( Rajab 983/October 1575 ) . |
| 22 | She examined the cat slowly and carefully , not allowing herself to be distracted by the thought of Mr Miller waiting irritably for the vaccination cards or her future appointment with Dawn . |
| 23 | Secondly , the new weapons would encourage mutual disarmament in Europe by persuading the Soviet Union to withdraw the SS-20s in return for not going ahead with the cruise devices . |
| 24 | The sea would be rising fast , flooding inland over the mangrove swamps , drowning the coast under ten or twenty or thirty feet of water . |
| 25 | Hanging helplessly in the safety straps , Ace looked down to see the cabin ceiling buckling and tearing . |
| 26 | The smoke was drifting slowly across the farm buildings in the still air . |
| 27 | However , it was always possible for the rich and the powerful to isolate themselves from the consequences of industrial growth by moving away from the factory areas to the more tranquil and less squalid atmosphere of the countryside . |
| 28 | Nestling peacefully amongst the mine sweepers and patrol vessels in Albert Dock was the P&O Thames sailing barge , Will , dressed overall with flags and used for a variety of on board functions during her stay . |
| 29 | United States officials refrained from commenting directly on the death sentences , but a State Department spokesman said on June 20 that the Bush administration had called on the government to respect human rights . |
| 30 | Glancing down to see brown rats moving confidently amongst the metal chairlegs , sniffling at the discarded sweet papers and orange peel . |