Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found I was expected to make progress , entailing fast driving within the speed limits on all roads . |
| 2 | For a miracle , almost boiling hot water poured out of the taps into the bath and Julia let herself have a really deep bath for once , lying there dreaming about the day when her life might be whole again and weaving plans to make it so , until the skin of her fingers and toes crinkled and the water felt cold . |
| 3 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 4 | On one sunny afternoon , when running and feeding a platen-machine ( by hand ) and sweating profusely owing to the heat , the rattle of the front-door bell told me to attend the counter . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start — perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was because the heat was so intense . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start , perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was the heat . ’ |
| 7 | Having said that , the not-outrageous address file on my desktop machine was over 40K long — requiring much juggling between the Portfolio 's silicon drive and general memory . |
| 8 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 9 | Erm so how much time are you spending just going to the school ? |
| 10 | These are powered by expansion , opening and closing automatically according to the temperature . |
| 11 | At other times in vacations he spent weeks doing hard reading in the library of Cambridge University and got good talks with Hoskyns . |
| 12 | she was saying upstairs sitting in the bed saying do n't get a , do n't get a doctor |
| 13 | But he 's eating well going to the loo alright . |
| 14 | There was no point sitting here yapping to a bunch of fucking prejudiced right-wing bastards . |
| 15 | ‘ I would n't fancy just standing there yelling into the void . ’ |
| 16 | At once it opened , as if she had been standing there waiting for the summons . |
| 17 | Stok was sitting there speaking to a telephone that looked like a prop from The Young Mister Edison . |
| 18 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
| 19 | Rapid inflation has increased the cost of planting further detracting from the willingness of farmers to contemplate introducing a long term investment like forestry , on any significant scale . |
| 20 | This piece of work demanded a bio-psychosocial approach and social care planning finally culminating in a family meeting . |
| 21 | In the first week of May some 30,000 more Somali refugees were reported to have crossed the border into Kenya , fleeing further fighting in the south [ for February UN report on Somali refugees in Kenya see p. 38755 ] . |