Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ralph sat in the driving seat of his car , inching slowly forward with the snaking traffic jam stretching along the road . |
| 2 | Thomas was motor-crazy , she thought , gazing fondly down at the small dungareed figure . |
| 3 | Childhood memory is however typically family-centred , touching only haphazardly on the unattached . |
| 4 | This is happening right now in the eastern Pacific — the Pacific Plate is sliding north-westwards , while the North American Plate is sliding south-eastwards , and the two strain and rub as they do so . |
| 5 | What is happening right now in the Persian Gulf , she says , shows the best example of the culture of death ! |
| 6 | Enteric strictures are a common complication of Crohn 's disease , occurring most frequently in the small bowel . |
| 7 | A few minutes later , Sir Thomas was walking slowly back to the Imperial Hotel in advance of the main party . |
| 8 | I crossed the field , keeping extremely close to the top wall ready to jump over it if two tons of Fray Bentos came visiting , but there was no sign of either bull or cattle . |
| 9 | I must apologise for returning somewhat dryly to the procedural point that has been raised during the debate . |
| 10 | He waited until the policeman disappeared inside his prefabricated hut before dodging under the railings and walking rapidly away across the giant crazy paving towards the blitzed warehouses . |
| 11 | On the peak of Edinburgh 's rock , with a tail of ground sloping sharply away down the Royal Mile , the Picts had a stronghold around AD 450 . |
| 12 | Suddenly , as they talked , arrows started to rain down on them , landing uncomfortably close to the two travellers . |
| 13 | She went in , shrinking fearfully away from the deepest patches of shadow and called , ‘ Oliver . ’ |
| 14 | The mirror is then placed on top of the straight-edge ( or a thin timber batten ) and lined up with it , tapped lightly to ‘ spread the cut ’ , and broken by pressing firmly down on the two sides of the cut . |
| 15 | Driving very slowly over the narrow bridges spanning the fast flowing streams which stemmed from the River Ouse , he noticed that a massive flock of coots had flown in while he had been away . |
| 16 | He turned his back on the little girls , the poor one looking so much like the rich man 's child , as they disappeared into the house to eat their rice together . |
| 17 | You give a good firm aid that would have your youngster wandering gently off to the left and suddenly find yourself falling off the side because the old hand did a sharp left turn ! |
| 18 | ‘ Demonstrate , Nicholson , ’ Mr Foggerty said hopefully , but Nicholson demonstrated by swimming away back to the deep end , mostly underwater where he was hard to see . |
| 19 | That 's right , that 's what you said in in you saying that populations were going , growing geometrically agricultural production was going arithmetically , as a result a population crash is inevitable , alright , but we know that is n't true right , because what , when Marthus was writing , erm , Marthus was writing just before in the agricultural revolution in the U K so agricultural technology had n't improved very much in sort of five hundred years right , but in the next hundred years agricultural production , erm , or productivity grows far faster than erm , than population . |
| 20 | Looking further ahead to the mid-1990s , the [ Mt does not expect the three big economies ' external imbalances to change as a percentage of GNP — in dollar terms they will rise-assuming economic policies and exchange rates stay the same . |
| 21 | And as for women in their 30s and 40s , Time claims they feel the feminist movement betrayed them by failing to warn them about the sacrifices women had to make in exchange for equality and by pursuing the wrong goals — pushing more strongly for the equal rights amendment than for child care or flexible working hours . |
| 22 | We start this chapter by looking more closely at the legal distinction between these two categories of temporary worker and go on to examine whether , in many cases of agency working , it is a meaningful one in practice . |
| 23 | This can be illustrated by looking more closely at the economic , political and culturalideological spheres . |
| 24 | ‘ Get hot , ’ Gav said , looking more closely at the white plastic strip . |
| 25 | By contrast , the research studies were looking more broadly at the whole child care service , and seeing the remedies prescribed by previous reports on similar scandals spreading over the whole system , and informing a confrontational , antagonistic and defensive approach to work requiring a more collaborative and inclusive spirit . |
| 26 | But there was a figure at the window , looking silently out at the opaque sky . |
| 27 | There was no light except hard bars of sunlight shafting almost horizontally through the broken windows , and the concrete floor gave the place a gloomy chill even on that evening . |
| 28 | ‘ I should have said no , ’ she muttered , looking yet again at the tiny pile of things she had accumulated . |
| 29 | She deliberately relaxed her limbs , looking steadily out of the open window , inhaling deeply as she tried to pinpoint an elusive scent . |
| 30 | They set off at once , everyone looking forward enormously to the proposed cup of tea . |