Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 2 | Eric 's guitar sounded like two steel rail wagons clanging together in a Chicago freight yard at 4am . |
| 3 | It is to set up an ancillary file with the records in sequential key order and each record consisting only of a count field . |
| 4 | ‘ Fancy me working in a library again , ’ he said , one hand resting idly on a card index . |
| 5 | I can remember from my recording days walking all around a sting quartet , for example , to locate the perpetrator of odd sniffs or swishes of silk sleeve lining to see if they could be eliminated in some tactful way — often without success . |
| 6 | He is also charged with driving away from a filling station without paying for petrol . |
| 7 | This is the story of a young man who falls in love with a girl as he is driving away from a car park . |
| 8 | He 'd spotted two men driving away from a securicor van parked outside Bookers cash and carry centre in cheltenham . |
| 9 | And with hospital food also being the same the whole world over , I could have done with my own wife appearing outside with a food parcel . |
| 10 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
| 11 | A man has been raped by two other men as he was walking home through a town centre . |
| 12 | Steve Thomas was attacked while walking home from a night club , but can remember little else of the incident . |
| 13 | In any event , rail travel is becoming more like a dice game . |
| 14 | Alfred , returning home after a kitchen luncheon with his colleagues , had seen the love of his life . |
| 15 | Yorke , 21 today , was returning home from a charity event at 2am , the city 's magistrates heard . |
| 16 | Our lady who kindly offered me her account of the happenings was returning home from a hospital visit . |
| 17 | And after dying horribly at a Nottingham University ball , I was confronted by a dandruff-afflicted sound operator in a Marillion T-shirt , who advised me to ‘ cut the left-wing politics , mate . ’ |
| 18 | Hybrids armed with lasguns were pressing hard against a picket line of planetary guardsmen . |
| 19 | Our friend from the smoke , vigorously lashing away like a cab driver whipping a lazy horse , caught three . |
| 20 | The 51-year-old noticed the youths acting suspiciously in a Middlesbrough pub . |
| 21 | The USGS geologists still see plate tectonics as the driving mechanisms , but see it acting rather like a conveyor belt . |
| 22 | A small group ( two bulls and six heifers ) was exported to an English agricultural college in 1988 on an experimental basis , and here it was described as looking rather like a South Devon or a beefy Jersey ; the bulls are being used on the college 's Friesian dairy herd to produce beef calves . |
| 23 | Meeting together at a disability arts event can also provide rare opportunities for disabled people to exchange ideas . |
| 24 | Three weeks on , The Paradise Club proves the contrary : it is now looking less like a showroom model than a motor on which the clock has been wound back and the polish is beginning to fade . |
| 25 | Even MTV has jumped on the bandwagon with The Real World , a show that chronicles the lives of seven kids rooming together in a SoHo loft . |
| 26 | It has been developing away on a polymer foam that is intended to fill an entire building ‘ from floor to ceiling ’ in a few seconds after an alarm is tripped . |
| 27 | Pieces which are too large can be broken by laying the slab on a bed sand , then topping smartly with a club hammer . |
| 28 | If I am looking directly at a stick insect , 8 inches in front of my nose and in strong daylight , I shall not be fooled by it . |
| 29 | Often the local press are looking more for a photo opportunity than a story . |
| 30 | There 's always the danger of the learner 's experience looking more like a patchwork quilt than an ordered and informative sequence of events that builds knowledge on knowledge , experience on experience . |