Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Karen was lying stretched out on the sofa facing me , staring up at the ceiling . |
| 2 | A few feet away two medics were lying stretched out on the floor of the barn , one lying face down , his arms by his sides , he appeared to be dead . |
| 3 | Far more important was the fact that this baby girl , born two weeks after the defeat of a Scottish army by the English at Solway Moss , and at a time when her remarkable father James V was lying burnt out at the age of thirty in his glorious hunting-lodge at Falkland , was to be within a week of her birth queen of the Scots . |
| 4 | The guidelines for interviewing laid down in the Market Research Society Code of Conduct should be adopted where relevant . |
| 5 | Getting sucked down into the house and the house things and the babyworld and the child-world and the cooking-world and the shopping-world . |
| 6 | After watching a few people jumping and getting caught up in the excitement and atmosphere , I decided I would love to have a shot , much to the family 's amazement and Sandy 's amusement . |
| 7 | You said something — about getting caught up in the action — |
| 8 | I was getting caught up in the rat race and thin round the edges spiritually , when the Lord stepped in and reminded me of a promise He made before we left Kent . |
| 9 | The locals are getting wound up about the game . |
| 10 | The hump was closed in 1985 and all shunting carried out from the east end . |
| 11 | She was already getting fed up with the hospital , and could n't wait to take her twin boys back to the large nursery waiting for them upstairs in the medieval castle that was now the family home . |
| 12 | The thought of getting hung up with the council care people was horrific . |
| 13 | Like getting wrapped up in the Masai , getting wrapped up in Indirect Rule was not inherently a passive occupation ; it seems in retrospect extraordinary that something to which so much energy was in fact devoted should ever have been perceived as a sign of imperial decrepitude . |
| 14 | Widely known for his anti-Maastricht politics , Fillon says that he wants to avoid ‘ getting bogged down at the EC level … whose cumbersome procedures put a damper on the research community ’ . |
| 15 | Yeah it 's no good getting bogged down in the detail . |
| 16 | Filth , dust , pollution , children getting run over on the roads , road traffic . |
| 17 | Our Jan 's getting fought over at the moment . |
| 18 | There is little point in getting worked up about the way different people use words ( although in my nonprofessional life I am quite prepared to get worked up about people who boil lobsters alive ) . |
| 19 | No , I think she was getting chatted up by the bloke who owned the place , really ! |
| 20 | OK , so you 'd probably end up getting gunned down by the SAS or something , but that 's got to be a better end for a bunch of real rock terrorists than ending up as a Levi 's advert . |
| 21 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |
| 22 | Mr Garel-Jones was at his home near Madrid last night , having flown out before the announcement from No 10 . |
| 23 | The chief inspector disliked his arrogant manner , his jocularity at her expense , particularly when the only weapon she had was bluff and she was vulnerable for having pressed on with the case against Spittals ' opposition . |
| 24 | This particular form of the game is not that old , having come in in the middle of the last century , when changes took place in the technology of pelota . |
| 25 | Indeed , having grown up with the privations of autarchy , they could see the potential benefits of inclusion in the international capitalist system . |
| 26 | Having grown up under the nose of the Israeli war machine , young Palestinians have come to the conclusion that , in the world they inhabit , might is right and the only way to survive and flourish is to be strong and violent . |
| 27 | Having grown up via the personality cult-littered path of doom rock , with Mission and Sisters Of Mercy fixations amongst the skeletons in their closet , the Messiah pair have no intention of accepting a fate as an anonymous disco duo , knocking out the odd hit . |
| 28 | Having missed out on the runners-up spot in the league by just one point , this cup final victory is a successful note on which to end the season . |
| 29 | Having walked back to the cottage , she put the ladder against the wall , then tested it to make sure it was firm . |
| 30 | The root of the East German church 's involvement lies in the agonising sense of guilt and self-accusation among many clergy during and after the Second World War for not having spoken out against the Nazis in time . |