Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In private it would seem that he was becoming increasingly fixated on the idea of a Third World War . |
| 2 | Yet over most of the world it inevitably came up against social and institutional obstacles which prevented or inhibited it , and in so doing also stood in the way of the other great task which capitalist — or indeed any — industrial development set its landed sector . |
| 3 | The old guard who had stopped us talking before ambled past the wire on the outside . |
| 4 | No no it 's , it 's very good he actually had a go and the rest of you were sitting there dumbfounded by the question . |
| 5 | She bought a few bits and pieces from the post office and was feeling thoroughly deflated by the time she got back to the house . |
| 6 | Any unease that Lucy had been feeling now vanished in the face of Charlie 's uncharacteristic embarrassment . |