Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [adv prt] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He wandered aimlessly around Pooley 's flat , glancing at magazines , pulling books out of the huge collection of crime fiction , reading a page or two and replacing them .
2 Taylor , 47 , of Potlands , Leeming Bar , failed to attend court and was convicted in his absence of two charges of moving pigs out of the declared area .
3 Taylor , 47 , of Potlands , Leeming Bar , failed to attend court and was convicted in his absence of two charges of moving pigs out of the declared area .
4 When bringing patients out of the hypnotized state I usually count to three .
5 The diagrams in the back of the book are being ‘ pepperd ’ with little boxes cutting sections out of the overall pattern , while the margins are getting filled with the co-ordinates to instruct the machine .
6 He noticed the pieces with which Wyvis Hall was furnished , taking books out of the public library on antiques and porcelain and measuring the remembered articles against illustrations , catching his breath sometimes at mounting values .
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