Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other behavioural strategies included eating slowly in a room away from the kitchen , preparing all food thoroughly before starting to eat , rather than eating standing up during cooking . |
| 2 | Next morning , as Wemmick and I walked back to London , I noticed his face becoming dryer and harder , and his mouth becoming more like a post-box again . |
| 3 | I want you — take me , ’ she whispered , twisting now in a way not designed to keep him away . |
| 4 | Scorpios are supposed to be possessive , but Adam 's been acting more like a gaoler recently — he hardly allows you out of his sight . |
| 5 | They were for teenagers , looking ahead to a life where anything wonderful could happen . |
| 6 | Impressed ‘ I was looking forward to a night out with the England Students squad on their training weekend at Bisham Abbey , but I wo n't say no to a bit of warm weather instead . ’ |
| 7 | It was her wedding picture , taken almost seven years ago , a picture of two blissful nineteen-year-old faces , confidently looking forward to a future together , a future that was destined never to be . |
| 8 | As a result evidence … clearly showed that the two Constables had been idling and gossiping together at a place where one of them had no right to be … [ and ] that the Acting Sergeant , on his round of inspection , met these two Constables together , failed to note in his book , as was required in the regulations , the place where and the time where he met them , and to see that the Constables then noted in their books the time and place of his visit … |
| 9 | Cos we 're only going away for a weekend then are n't we ? |
| 10 | The young intellectuals , i.e. those still in full-time study or newly-appointed to their posts , were worse off than their seniors and saw going abroad as a way out . |
| 11 | The result is naturally a concentration of erosion on the headlands , thus leading ultimately to a smoothing out of the coastline if it is of one rock type . |
| 12 | The strength of the stock market has been built entirely on the belief that the economy is about to start growing again at a time when inflation , earnings growth and interest rates are all low and falling , creating ideal conditions for a period of non-inflationary growth . |
| 13 | One example of this is on page 156 when Scout and Jem have discovered that Atticus is sitting outside the county Jail on one of his office chairs and as they cross the square to get nearer to him , four dusty cars come in from the Meridian highway , moving slowly in a line eventually stopping outside the Jail . |
| 14 | Canvassing on his behalf appears to have indicated , however , that many MPs would remain loyal to the Prime Minister in a first ballot , switching only in a second when , of course , there might be additional candidates . |
| 15 | Initial attempts at moving together in a team often cause frustration and irritation . |
| 16 | In the eighteenth century British consumption , rising steadily at a bit over 2 per cent a year , was more buoyant than the re-export trade , which made the British preferential tariff more advantageous to the planters . |
| 17 | On the other hand , I remember seeing them dancing together at a ball shortly before the birth of Prince William . |
| 18 | After the relative safety of role playing either with a therapist alone , or in a group , or merely imaging how to behave differently , comes the transfer or generalization of training . |
| 19 | Erm sorry I gave them all away I 'm afraid mhm yeah so er I 'm tempted to start rolling again in a moment so would you like to make an announcement yeah ? |
| 20 | LAVA from Mount Etna continued creeping closer to a village yesterday , engulfing a cottage , as authorities used explosives and huge concrete blocks to try to stop the advance , writes Bruce Johnston in Zafferana . |
| 21 | This time the flood tide of ‘ forward and backward Cs in which the French so much delight ’ was flowing inexplicably at a time when we and the French were fighting the Seven Years War and French fashions , like French bottle makers and garlic , were desperately unpopular . |
| 22 | She would have preferred the noise and distraction of the public restaurant to sitting quietly in a room alone with Robert , but it was impossible to refuse . |
| 23 | ‘ You must have rennet spilling out of your ears , ’ Algy said to Louise , who by now was beyond taking pleasure in such moves of friendliness and simply handed round the dish with her left hand behind her back as she had been taught , feeling mutinous and thinking proudly of a homeland where not junket but fondue was the commonplace . |
| 24 | Mine was feeling rather like a power-dive right now . |
| 25 | It is imperative that the present divisive situation is resolved as speedily as possible , to allow everyone involved with the school to start working together as a team once more . |