Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's probably only one of the local kids sneaking in for a look around , ’ Jessamy tried to reassure herself . |
| 3 | It is n't large , like his château in Brittany , rather it is a charming summer pavilion , with French windows opening on to a terrace all along the façade of the house . |
| 4 | Willie gazed at the gentle way he fingered the udders and at the warm white liquid spurting down into a bucket underneath . |
| 5 | Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 . |
| 6 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 7 | KNOCKING AROUND for a while now . |
| 8 | For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’ |
| 9 | The horses are walking round in a ring then . |
| 10 | With a twinge of conscience it occurred to her that it was not often Omi got out ; a rare trip to the theatre or a concert , Wannsee in summer , or Potsdam , but in the winter she was trapped in the flat , passing long , lonely hours looking on to a street where little happened . |
| 11 | No longer will you find yourself pushing on to a point where you say " that will do " and hastily include a few rounding off sentences . |
| 12 | Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above . |
| 13 | Living out of a suitcase away from home and family has become one of the main causes of stress among businessmen , concluded a survey by the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 14 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 15 | After a hundred yards or so , the drive divided , leading in one direction towards a classroom block , in the other fanning out into a courtyard where cars were parked either side of the main entrance . |
| 16 | There 's somebody looking out of a window up there , looking a bit worried . |
| 17 | Miss Huntley claimed to have spent the Saturday by herself in and around her flat , doing a bit of shopping and cleaning before meeting a few friends — only one of whom appeared to have an address — and going on to a party around ten o'clock at night . |
| 18 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 19 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 20 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 21 | We hardly need to ask where this faith and belief came from , pouring in from a source previously untapped . |
| 22 | The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me . |
| 23 | I think the army thought they were going in to a situation where they could they could help , they saw themselves if you like as the referees er as a neutral party in between two sides . |
| 24 | Portsmouth , needing only a draw , made certain of going through with a second just before the interval . |
| 25 | I think very good at going through with a toothcomb anyway and I 'm sure that she could quite adequately . |
| 26 | Yes , to be fair Jenny came in er , on Friday to talk to me about it , but I just did n't have time , I was rushing off to a meeting so I 've |
| 27 | And if we draw a line it 's the analogy of someone pedalling on a bicycle , if you reach thirty five and you 're going up on a bicycle like that it 's reasonably steep but not too steep , you can cope with that on a regular basis . |
| 28 | I worry about my daughter , she 's growing up in a world where things are inevitably going ’ Asked whether he may just possibly have got it all wrong , Hopkins pauses melodramatically . |
| 29 | I 'm going out for a minute anyway , . |
| 30 | How about going out for a meal instead ? ’ |