Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A method for toning down after concentrating on the outside of the body , while at the same time exercising the internal organs , was invented by the old Chinese masters . |
| 2 | She leaned on the wide sill , looking out with longing at the part of Gullholm visible from the window . |
| 3 | She should also be at school , and Noreen threatened to send her back to Uncle Michael who would take her to school every day , if she did n't stop going on about coming to the theatre . |
| 4 | You may have only intended to have a small black coffee but given all the antecedent events ( that is , the things we have described leading up to walking into the café ) , the probability is high that you will break the diet . |
| 5 | Turning round by steering into the wind and stepping around the front of the mast . |
| 6 | Think of the prospect of John Major lining up at the London Marathon , or Neil Kinnnock limbering up before taking to the squash courts . |
| 7 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 8 | Getting up from rummaging in the wastepaper basket , she bumped her head , very lightly , on the sink . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been used to fares running off without paying in the past , ’ said one . |
| 10 | Just closing a little bit on the vehicle in front , waiting for these hatchings to finish then gently accelerating through after checking in the mirror again . |
| 11 | ‘ May we , Mr Connon ? ’ said Dalziel , setting off without waiting for an answer . |
| 12 | The taxi-driver had given a rude sign to Myeloski 's disappearing back before turning to a bemused Duncan for support . |
| 13 | It is worth shopping around before choosing as the scope of cover , sums insured and premium costs vary considerably . |