Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like hanging on to a wriggly eel . |
| 2 | ( 65 ) " I shall now select my Empress ! " he said , looking down on the cowering people . |
| 3 | Current models , launched in 1988 , are the third generation , slotting in between the sporty 3-Series and the luxurious 7-Series . |
| 4 | Supposed to be saving up to a hundred quid ! |
| 5 | They spurn any subjective dressing up of the naked data . |
| 6 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 7 | Cover : pulling up through a steady 4g loop in Harry Prew-Smith 's Fouga Magister . |
| 8 | We must make sure we do n't keep on disturbing the seed 's growth by constantly going back to the same people and badgering them . |
| 9 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 10 | And me turning about like a drowning fish in a mesh of shadows drawing round . |
| 11 | Although Wilson 's point is a good one , there is a considerable momentum building up within the digital multimedia industry and even if reluctance to reinvest in new kit slows the pace of change , it is unlikely to deflect the overwhelming trend . |
| 12 | However , how does that come about , I mean if supposing you were a , a member of a very large group like the Catholic Church getting on to a billion people say , well you ca n't possibly identify with a billion other people you ca n't meet them in one lifetime let alone ties with them , so how does , how does narcissistic libido unify the members of vast groups like the Catholic Church ? |
| 13 | When lava like this comes to rest or slows down , the ‘ skin ’ piles up against itself , buckling up into a closely-spaced series of pleats . |
| 14 | Getting back to the successful sales course day . |
| 15 | OS/2 will get 8.5% of the total workstation market by 1996 , it says , with Unix coming in at a hefty 47% and Windows NT possibly capturing 30–40% of the office desktop/workstation market . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a queer sort of crossing of Greenland … coming back with a sick sheep . ’ |
| 17 | Just the club cashing in with the sad sheep crawling out of the woodwork everywhere . |
| 18 | Taking off as a conventional aircraft the plane would take its passengers into space , reaching 18,0000 mph before gliding back to earth like the Space Shuttle . |
| 19 | The acceleration is sensational and very similar to taking off in a piston-engined aircraft with open cockpit . |
| 20 | And it is no bad idea to choose someone not too distant from oneself , especially if you hope to create a detective capable of standing up to a whole series of books . |
| 21 | What hope can they have , if they see you slumping about like a filleted herring , wallowing in self-pity ? |
| 22 | All these people I know will be trying out for the new series . |