Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , in her mind , she had visions of the Brownings rattling along in high good humour with all manner of beautiful vistas to right and left as they trotted to Arezzo and she could hear the conversation and Pen 's excited laughter . |
| 2 | He watched them disappear from his view , his father still waddling along with that bloody basket . |
| 3 | I 've got the whole weight of the whole earth pressing in on this little box . |
| 4 | So I did and it 's very strange I remember toddling off with this little chap and er and Miss said , Who is this then ? or words to that effect . |
| 5 | MARKETS in the Far East and Middle East are opening up for hi-tech heat-beating textile produced by Performance Fabrics . |
| 6 | The worst of it was , she could n't even afford to apologise , could n't take the risk of opening up to this dangerous man . |
| 7 | Keeping up with that galloping pen of hers , Mrs Praga one day devised " a scheme based on deep orange-hued carnations " , the table-slip to be of deep sunset yellow satin edged with écru lace ( sunset yellow , she tells us elsewhere , was a Liberty colour — in fact most of her inspiration came from Liberty 's ) . |
| 8 | Most likely of all is that we partially trust one another , and each play some mixed sequence of COOPERATE and DEFECT , ending up with some intermediate sum of money . |
| 9 | For the best way to job-hunt in Europe is by going to the country of your choice for a few weeks and signing up with several private employment agencies . |
| 10 | And doubtless when unarmed Republicans were set upon by the same force in Derry in 1968 you , Mr. Tully , were at home swotting up on some useless pop facts . |
| 11 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 12 | The nursemaid felt a withdrawal of affection and was hurt , not noticing that the child was shrinking back from all emotional expression ; the hugs and kisses once lavished on Marie had not been transferred to Pamela . |
| 13 | We almost convince ourselves that the music is created not by the orchestra but by the tip of the baton itself , rich sounds oozing out like some exotic genie . |
| 14 | Because you 're always walking around with that bloody notebook writing everything down , and you 're not getting anywhere near the truth … |
| 15 | A gang walking around in public brandishing bicycle chains could have been convicted . |
| 16 | All of them , known and unknown , thrashing around in uncontrolled sexual activity like midnight at a Roman orgy . ’ |
| 17 | She was so busy with the Maxim , however , that she failed to notice the door opening fully behind her , and Richmann stepping through like some black-cloaked angel of death , his shortened Winchester being raised into position . |
| 18 | Ask permission before venturing on to any private land . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , Jack Kerouac never lived to see the success of it , ironically passing on to that great hippie gathering in the sky on 21 October 1969 . |
| 20 | That meant no dancing , just hordes of people staying long enough to see and be seen , then passing on to some other entertainment . |
| 21 | I was not at the bottom of a cliff but at the top , looking down across another dusty plain four hundred feet below . |
| 22 | Suddenly she came out through the last curtain of trees and found herself looking down over sunlit green meadowland to where a railway line wound like a serpent through a cutting at the foot . |
| 23 | Lurching along in this enclosed space , one loses all sense of direction . |
| 24 | Here is a pretty device to decorate a banner withal , and who knows but that the bunting may yet cast its shadow upon the representative body of shellbacks lurching along in some typical procession of industry . |
| 25 | They way he just took my hair in one hand , while we were standing looking up at that God-awful window in the great hall , and turned my head to him , and pulled me close ; tongue down my throat before I knew what was happening , and there was something adolescent and desperate beneath all that working-class directness , but Jesus , I felt wanted … |
| 26 | As I sat looking up at this magnificent bird , especially on a fine day , I used to feel a terrific urge to see a bird of prey flying to a lure , which I 'd read about in my falconry books . |
| 27 | Looking back to that nightmarish night in the wake of her conversion , Mary can suggest only one explanation . |
| 28 | It must be like looking back through primitive blown glass . |
| 29 | Looking back over this early venture , it is easy enough to see in it the seeds of what was to come . |
| 30 | Snapping out of this disagreeable mood will release tensions in everyone . |