Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We like walking so we bought a second-hand backpack for him which has proved to be a lot more useful — it 's much easier to carry him in it . |
| 2 | I had always loved walking so it seemed the obvious thing to do . |
| 3 | Before returning home she paid a private visit to Kentucky . |
| 4 | There was a bright moon and on looking closer I saw a dark smear coming from his mouth . |
| 5 | The younger of the pair , Joseph noticed , held his arms unnaturally high across his tiny chest , and looking closer he saw a little bulge rumpling and moving beneath his silk tunic . |
| 6 | Erm , we 'd had a meeting prior to going so we had a fair idea of you know , we kind of got together and shared some thoughts before we , before we went . |
| 7 | Peering inside he found a half-naked couple locked together in the backseat . |
| 8 | Balancing precariously I crossed the narrow snow arête to the foot of a steep crack . |
| 9 | But peering close I saw no grey at all ; |
| 10 | Pointing upwards he indicated a large nest high in a pine tree and told us that it was the nest of a buzzard which had been taken over by a great grey owl . |
| 11 | and design and print buying then you have a slight break in the attention span if each person 's fifteen minutes |
| 12 | When she saw that her tense efforts to concentrate were getting nowhere she made a swift expedition back to the Hall . |
| 13 | Fortunately this is seldom actually the case with practical materials because , in order to produce a new fracture surface , we have generally not only to break all the chemical bonds at the fracture surface ( which requires only the free surface energy ) , we also disturb the molecular structure of the material to a depth which is sometimes very considerable ; in doing so we break a great many other bonds as well . |
| 14 | In doing so they established a new serie B record with their eighth consecutive win , beating Lazio 's previous record . |
| 15 | By doing so they amended the three basic treaties which respectively created the European Coal and Steel Community ( which came into existence in 1951 ) , the European Atomic Energy Community and the European Economic Community ( Euratom and EEC — both of which came into operation in 1958 ) . |
| 16 | By doing so he replaced a philosophical speculation with a detailed description of a process , supported by an abundance of evidence , that could be tested and verified ; and the reality of evolution could no longer be denied . |
| 17 | In doing so he voiced the main concern of all the watchful parties : the risk that control through physical restraint may emerge as common practice over the use of counselling . |
| 18 | Law was bound to give way but in doing so he sacrificed the only positive policy he had . |
| 19 | I later recorded he invariably used the idea of an ‘ escape from real work ’ to describe any research secondment ; in doing so he embodied the common institutional fear of uncontrolled social movement across a divide or boundary into another society such as academia . |
| 20 | Like both the Aristotelians and Gassendi , Locke talks of their ‘ natures ’ or ‘ essences ’ , but in doing so he makes a sharp distinction between ‘ real ’ and ‘ nominal ’ essence . |
| 21 | In doing so he exposes the pre-acquisition write-down , the timing of recognition of deferred consideration and the impact of disposals . |
| 22 | In doing so he lost the only friends he had here in Paris , such as they were . |
| 23 | I had to re-position the heater , and while doing so I felt a tingling sensation , as with a very minor electric leakage — even though the tank — was ‘ off . |
| 24 | In doing so it used the temporary 1951–3 increase in employment of older workers rather than the wider post-war trend to earlier retirement . |
| 25 | In doing so it checks the following : |
| 26 | So we put ten five pound notes round this very big table and then we 're saying now you 've a hundred and fifty people I do n't know how you managed to get into this room . |
| 27 | And therefore i i i it was n't just the poor s saying well I want the same as everybody else , I want as much as a middle peasant . |
| 28 | Eyeing her new-found companions sitting at her other side , and who were avid listeners to their conversation , he resumed wryly , ‘ And that within five minutes of you arriving anywhere you had the entire population at your feet , knew their life histories , their problems … ’ |
| 29 | He got up out of bed and then I was thinking then he had a sneaky feeling that he tried to get out the door . |
| 30 | ‘ She is still in bed but smiling profusely she has a lovely pair of eyes . ’ |