Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [subord] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passengers were still climbing off while the second load of passengers were scrambling on . |
| 2 | Walking out after the first act was becoming an addiction . |
| 3 | If the Minister for Sport was on the Treasury Bench , I would ask him — instead , I ask all hon. Members and the country — what is going on when the general secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation puts his name and that of his organisation to a positive argument in favour of tobacco sponsorship in sport ? |
| 4 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 5 | With neither the political crisis that Labour 's resignation from the Government would have caused , nor the industrial explosion , which — however much pacifists might fear it — would undoubtedly have created new possibilities for their politics , the momentum that had been building up since the Russian Revolution nearly a year earlier was sharply checked . |
| 6 | In education , since 1979 the percentage of pupils staying on until the fifth year has increased from 35 per cent . |
| 7 | Anne remembers sleeping seven to a bed but at ninety-six years of age was still puzzling out where the eighth member of the troupe ended up . |
| 8 | I felt a migraine coming on as the old girl began to wail and Zylpha screamed a torrent of abuse . |
| 9 | They moved together to the edge of fulfilment — and beyond , crying out as the climactic explosion burst upon them . |
| 10 | The political parties warmed up for a general election by bickering over whether the new health trusts remain part of the national health service . |
| 11 | The 1994 budget , submitted in March by the defence secretary , Les Aspin , was merely a holding exercise , designed to keep the system ticking over until the new plan emerges . |
| 12 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |