Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the existence of the statutes indicates certain offences which sometimes creep into public life , it is most gratifying to note that amongst the many tens of thousands of councillors serving voluntarily year by year in this country a prosecution under this Act is very rare indeed . |
| 2 | Alfred was waving a white-stockinged leg in the air , Heinrich experimentally bending over in his black knee breeches ; James was pulling at his skimpy short jacket , puffing out his chest like Beerbohm Tree as d'Artagnan , Algernon was dancing a Highland fling showing off his black slipper shoes , and Alice and Emily were swishing merrily arm in arm through the kitchen in their huge , gathered black skirts covered with large , bibbed , lacy aprons . |
| 3 | They were dozing happily side by side on the sands , when a jet plane roared overhead , waking them with a start . |
| 4 | So I have Posi the go-ahead , and we surged out through the Valve , coming almost face to face with the two ships . |
| 5 | It is more an inevitable consequence of two people ( particularity people of a similar age ) finding themselves sitting together week after week in a setting which , socially speaking , is hard to define . |
| 6 | I crawled in a fruitless search all the way back to the tree and then turned and crawled away again on a slightly different line , looking , looking , hope draining away yard by yard in progressive debility , resolution ebbing with failure . |