Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This switch was intended to enable Roshanara to retain her influence by stepping in as the child 's regent . |
| 2 | The home selectors have been shuffling their resources in recent matches and they take this opportunity to have a look at some members on the fringe of inclusion for Italy with one or two experienced players , such as flanker Martin Pepper stepping down to the replacements ' bench . |
| 3 | I 'm driving on to the train 's roar beat , |
| 4 | I climbed a wall to drink at the beck , sitting for a while on its banks in the sun before walking on up the legionaries ' highway crossing the Burtersett road under Green Scar Mire and heading up towards Fleet Moss and Kidhow Gate . |
| 5 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 6 | Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing . |
| 7 | After stripping off in a Levi 's ad and Thelma & Louise , Brad Pitt has been hailed as the new James Dean , a sex symbol for the Nineties . |
| 8 | SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale completed two key close season signings before jetting off for a week 's break in Greece yesterday . |
| 9 | And they were not ‘ luxuries ’ but , in the higher standard of living , had become essentials for anyone with the modest ambition of keeping up with the Jones 's — wireless sets , gramophones , motor bikes , motor cars , vacuum cleaners , geysers , Oxford Bags , artificial silk stockings , tennis racquets and steel-shafted mashie niblicks . |
| 10 | OK , so you 'd probably end up getting gunned down by the SAS or something , but that 's got to be a better end for a bunch of real rock terrorists than ending up as a Levi 's advert . |
| 11 | He 'd think nothing of checking up on a fellow 's credentials . |
| 12 | ‘ They can be a devil , ’ Guido told her , climbing back into the driver 's seat . |
| 13 | ‘ We are not playing kick and rush , ’ he insisted when driving out to a friend 's hotel in the Derwent Valley below Consett , pausing now and then to savour the uncluttered Durham landscape , his heart for ever in the North-east of England . |
| 14 | Magee raised an arm to stop it , walking round to the driver 's side . |
| 15 | premises ‘ over the shop ’ , looking on to the town 's main streets , can provide desirable offices for local professional firms , or indeed flats — residential use in particular keeps the streets alive in the evenings and at weekends when the shops are shut . |
| 16 | As he rushed onwards it lengthened and curved , until he stood at the edge of a cold volcanic cauldron , looking down at the mountain 's secret , a still , dark lake which gleamed green at the foot of the crags . |
| 17 | There is a comfy lounge , a bar and a stylish TV room and the traditional style dining-room boasts an amazing rococo fantasy of cherubs and angels looking down from the building 's original ceiling . |
| 18 | The dustbin men were picking up outside The Wife 's Legs . |
| 19 | These weeks provide a very enjoyable rounding up of the year 's work , a chance to sample some new outdoor pursuits and a valuable lesson in community living . |
| 20 | Others designed the sculpture for a specific viewpoint , which can sometimes be reconstructed by looking up into the figure 's eyes . |
| 21 | And then erm Cathy taking Dessy for and and her looking up at the Dessy 's head . |
| 22 | Both approaches are reflected in the report to annual parent meetings and both require a looking back at a school 's achievements in order that differences or improvements can be headlined . |
| 23 | In looking back at the department 's achievements , one has to accept that reorganisation which Judy and Simon have already referred to , has because of its sheer scale and impact on N C V O been something of an abiding preoccupation over the past twelve to eighteen months . |
| 24 | Looking back on the community 's experience of opposition , she reflected ‘ If we had got going earlier , and got support from all the locals , if we had n't waffled for ages , and demonstrated properly , and been more vocal — we had difficulty raising money , we just could n't raise money — we would have made an impact . |
| 25 | In his second feature looking back on the regiment 's finest hours , Richard Barnett talks to the men who were proud to have served with the Glorious Glosters : |
| 26 | It is an awful spectacle to see a ride galloping through the finish with reins flapping , bouncing around on the horse 's back . |
| 27 | Others were already wriggling around in the Alice 's undercarriage , zeroing in on the inlets . |
| 28 | Charles kept looking round for the room 's occupant . |
| 29 | Whipping off in the Doc 's DeLorean time machine to find 2015 in Hill Valley , California , a purgatorial version of its former self , with the old labouring under hormonal treatment that has fuddled their brains while rejuvenating their bodies and the young equipped with weapons of world-destruction , Marty McFly returns to discover the mid-Eighties in even worse disarray . |
| 30 | This experience is referred to many times in the Cantos : what its author most values in theory , the weighing of syllables in the line and the leading on of the reader 's breath from one syllable to the next . |