Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Verity wiggled her bottom , plonked it back down , calmly braked and shifted up to fifth , dawdling along behind the green Parceline truck while she waited for it to overtake an Esso tanker . |
| 2 | Only the Russians and some German Social Democrats keep banging on about a neutral Germany . |
| 3 | The paper started by zeroing in on the inner London boroughs . |
| 4 | ARE HOTELIERS GEARING UP FOR THE NEW EC FIRE SAFETY DIRECTIVE ? |
| 5 | Normally to be seen driving around in a funereal Daimler — dwarfing the island 's other cars ( including the BMW of Premier Sir John Swan ) — the Governor also dons his uniform and takes to the streets in a horse-drawn landau several times a year . |
| 6 | Li Shai Tung turned , looking up into the young T'ang 's face , holding his arm briefly , gratefully . |
| 7 | Even so , he knows , Lehmann thought , looking up into the young T'ang 's eyes . |
| 8 | He turned his head , looking back at the six T'ang standing amongst the pillars , watching him . |
| 9 | That has opened new wounds in relationships between the two sides , barely on speaking terms after bad blood dating back to the infamous Shakoor Rana-Mike Gatting bust-up . |
| 10 | Layers of management have been stripped out and restrictive labour practices dating back to the Red Clyde era have disappeared . |
| 11 | Er , at the time , we had no response when this was announced by Jim erm , it does in fact clash with our council meeting but in view of the fact that erm our business meeting Se , in December is not until the second Monday , I would be happy to put the erm council meeting back to the following Monday if there was sufficient interest from the members . |
| 12 | In beautiful native gardens looking out over the magnificent Belle Mare Beach , this new hotel 's rooms all overlook the sea . |
| 13 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 14 | As a youngster , growing up in the declining Lanarkshire coalfields , he trained at a local Junior ground wearing his father 's pit boots , trying to add strength and shape to his diminutive body . |
| 15 | However , scrutiny of the events leading up to the 9 July announcement suggests that this decision was a result not so much of Soviet ‘ opportunism ’ as of the policies of the Eisenhower administration and the brinkmanship of Fidel Castro . |
| 16 | We 're going out on a early February to do whatsername Rodney from Only Fools and Horses . |
| 17 | But there was no going back for the impoverished Miss Theodosia Kyte . |
| 18 | Talk is of household refuse trains going back to the moth-balled Gobowen to Nanbrynmawr line — from Manchester . |
| 19 | KEVIN McGARRITY is going back to the British Vauxhall Lotus championship — and back to the team he quit midway through last season . |
| 20 | Moving on to a major NBC station WHO in Des Moines , Iowa , Reagan , during the next four years , acquired considerable broadcasting experience . |
| 21 | Also on the competition front one lucky reader will be flying off to the sunny Bahamas for her honeymoon — so hurry up and enter , it might just be you ! |
| 22 | A Goebbels article in Das Reich at the beginning of March , in which he had emphasized ‘ the great honour of the victims and of holding out for the new Europe ’ , for which it was worthwhile ‘ fighting to the last man in order to go down in history ’ , met with heavy criticism . |
| 23 | THIS WEEK 's attempt to divert the flow of lava gushing out of the erupting Mount Etna in Sicily could be an expensive failure — because a British team of vulcanologists taking essential measurements has had to return home after its money ran out . |
| 24 | I put my cameras away and took my leave , stepping out into the muggy London air on Carnaby Street . |
| 25 | " You 're so lucky , you 're so lucky , " I murmured , staring down at the rocky Rockies or the Smokies or the Ropies through cloud-cover made of snow and contour tracing … |
| 26 | They 're coming back on the first Wednesday of next month with a bus load of about forty Women 's Institute members — ’ She broke off as she realised he was staring at her in horror . |
| 27 | MARY SPENCER — Mary = marry , so I would see the lady as a bride coming out of a well-known High Street shop which has somehow been cut cleanly in half . |
| 28 | Doddy is dropping in to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital to open the refurbished Women 's Royal Voluntary Service tea bar . |
| 29 | ITV chiefs are cashing in on a sick US craze by inviting viewers to send in video film of real-life horrors . |
| 30 | BR issued a prospectus for the handing over of the entire Settle & Carlisle line to private enterprise . |