Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] and [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a few miles away Antony heard the boughs of the sycamore tree sawing together and watched the sinister patterns moved by the wind across the frosted glass of the bathroom window . |
| 2 | This , however , only reflects the complexity of the area and the difficulties of bringing together and understanding the diverse responses of individuals . |
| 3 | The key factor in all these possibilities is the capability of drawing together and distributing a wide range of interactive facilities within a single information environment . |
| 4 | I lived in York for 17 years before returning home and saw the outer ring road being built there . |
| 5 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 6 | The stairs juddered beneath their feet , the stair-rail vibrating visibly and emitting an echoing whanng ! |
| 7 | The little Bath wizard kept England B driving forward and changed a 5–8 half-time deficit into an 11–8 lead with two penalties early in the second period . |
| 8 | At discharge , when he was fully well , he was eating normally and had no clinical abnormality in chest or abdomen . |
| 9 | The emphasis of the book from now on is of a pragmatic nature , but I hope it is a sanctified pragmatism applied to operating within and shaping the contemporary manifestations of the Church of Christ . |
| 10 | If , on the other hand , you knew much more about what had to be done to solve the problem than the other person , then communicating clearly and testing the other person 's understanding would be higher priorities . |
| 11 | Help yourself as much as you can by looking ahead and picking the flattest piece of water in which to turn . |
| 12 | Pin top edges of valance and lining together and drawstitch the folded edges together . |
| 13 | Without government aid , argue the pro-regionalists , depressed areas disintegrate socially , with the young and the skilled moving away and leaving the old and the unskilled behind ; families and communities thus suffer socially . |
| 14 | At the age of 9 years , moved on , she was accompanied by her good friend , at their new school , Stonham Aspel. was more fortunate than some as the such-like of and : they were moving away and faced a strange school and strange people . |
| 15 | A top league of ten clubs is also intended to appease those who were intent on breaking away and forming a Scottish Super League , since there will be a built-in level of autonomy for them within the Scottish league framework . |
| 16 | Instead they were marching backwards and pausing every few steps to fire steady and effective volleys at their French attackers . |
| 17 | He came to the county to leave teaching behind and start a new life as a professional photographer . |
| 18 | This great structure , which forms the frontier between Europe and Asia , shows two continents coming together and forming a new super-continent . |
| 19 | His desperate girl , ox-eyed , perhaps twelve years old or perhaps thirty-five , waited outside the Customs Hall for him without leaving even to sleep , watching through the glass and crying softly and putting the damp balls of face tissue into a big plastic handbag that looked ugly and moving against her sari . |
| 20 | On it lay the Vietnamese manservant , moaning quietly and holding a surgical dressing to his thigh . |
| 21 | Back by the regatta , the picnic lunches are in full swing — with typical British stiff upper lip , everyone 's eating outdoors and ignoring the less than summery weather . |
| 22 | To return to the main point : we introduced surface dyslexia as the pattern of acquired dyslexia which would be expected if neurological damage had affected the lexical procedure for reading aloud and spared the non-lexical procedure . |
| 23 | Fat lesbians are planning to stop hiding away and to make a big impression on the scene . |
| 24 | Marguerite surprised her by nodding wryly and making a small grimace . |
| 25 | He accused the Romanian authorities of behaving brutally and demanded the immediate release of Pastor Laszlo Tokes , the ethnic Hungarian clergyman whose harassment by the authorities |
| 26 | A danger lies in arriving home and baffling the local medical profession with an intractable high fever . |
| 27 | Walking or cycling to work or to the station instead of using the car , and exercising the dog regularly ( breathing deeply and keeping a good posture as we walk ) , are ways of incorporating exercise into the normal schedule . |
| 28 | Often behaving OK and getting the resultant strokes , loops back and causes you actually to feel OK . |
| 29 | I wanted to wire the hedgehog up to some kind of heartbeat monitor so we could run out to resuscitate it if the machine stopped beeping regularly and pronounced the continuous monotone bleep of death that we all know from hospital drama . |
| 30 | Greg Downs says it was just one of those things and his Hereford team are playing well and have a good cup record . |