Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |
| 2 | And I just said , I 'm not walking around with a hundred and fifty quids worth of money . |
| 3 | There are even times when I enjoy it in a masochistic kind of way — those are the times when you are really running free , bouncing along in a relaxed and easy manner , with the mind and the body in tune . |
| 4 | It was only when I was actually up there and the music had stopped , and I found myself looking down at a hundred or so expectant faces , that I remembered the magnitude of the task in front of me . |
| 5 | Searching around for a related but cooperative proposition that B might be intending to convey , we arrive at the opposite , or negation , of what B has stated namely that Britain does n't rule the seas , and thus by way of Relevance to the prior utterance , the suggestion that there is nothing that Britain could do . |
| 6 | They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean , and what the historian catches will depend , partly on chance , but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use — these two factors being , of course , determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch . |
| 7 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 8 | Rights and properties going back to a remote and undocumented past appeared to him to have a sanction which no later enactment — not even by the pope — could alter . |
| 9 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 10 | Author Alan , who was with the unit throughout its operational career , has collected and researched a series of fascinating contributions from unit members building up to a comprehensive and highly readable work . |
| 11 | Tonight she would far rather have been getting on with a hundred and one other things , but conscience had dictated that she must get the books finished first . |
| 12 | From her bedroom window she could see the mountain rising up in a steep and slippery slope above a deep quarry , which had once been worked for limestone but had long since fallen into disuse . |
| 13 | A third small group is encountered near the beginning , in a Florida town ( along with the alligator ) , moving about in a desultory but slightly menacing way . |
| 14 | New residents are coming in from a wider and wider catchment area . |
| 15 | The pilot heard a bang from the engines , followed by the sound of the engines running down in a rough and abnormal manner . |
| 16 | The EC dragged its feet before coming up with a reluctant and minimal proposal to reform farm trade . |
| 17 | Wetherall was up at one point and had two shots blocked before coming back for a third and putting the ball in the net . |
| 18 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 19 | Ruth said , piping up like a bright and confident pupil , ‘ I asked the man . |
| 20 | Cameron remembered his dream , remembered the thickly-populated nightmare life he had led , trailing off into a bland and dusty future . |
| 21 | Perhaps even now they were beginning to circle , to weave around the field , stretching out into a thin and malevolent line as they spiralled in to gorge … |