Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back . |
| 2 | This daily confronting of the ‘ primitive terror ’ as represented by the sea is held up for our admiration . |
| 3 | I had a successful 2 o'clock meeting with the organisers of a charity event to raise money for Guy 's Hospital cancer unit . |
| 4 | In the South-west , Exeter became a major centre of cloth exports from the 1490s , and by the early sixteenth century some of the smaller Devon towns were also active in the trade , this perhaps contributing to the later growth of West Country shipping activity . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , however , the book 's value as a work of reference is somewhat undermined by errors , some apparently hinting at a lack of background knowledge , while other statements are contradicted by the sources cited : e.g. John Graham , Lord Kilpont becomes John Stewart , Lord Kinpont — a gentleman otherwise unknown to history ; Balcarre 's and Barclay 's regiments of horse are confused ; Sir James Scott of Rossie becomes Sir James Scott of Rosyth ; and variant spellings of proper names abound . |
| 6 | It 's much easier just belonging to a club and not having |
| 7 | Authorities of all types and sizes commented on this problem , some just touching on it , others indicating that it is now paramount to them : |
| 8 | For a while , my route flirted with the border and after some easy going across the Severn Valley , I took to the hills again , following a roman road over Long Mountain . |
| 9 | When I was ten years old somehow choosing to be a boy seemed a good idea , a logical plan to follow . |
| 10 | The gregarious owls were juveniles less than a year old just coming into breeding condition , but unable to find a place to nest in the plantation . |
| 11 | ‘ I ‘ ear there 's a lot of barrows up for sale nowadays and some still goin' for bargain prices . ’ |
| 12 | One by one they had slipped out until now there were only a few still clinging to the broomstick . |
| 13 | I would propose to hold this further meeting at 11.30 am on Monday 14 September 1992 in the Finance Department meeting room , second floor , Chesser House . |
| 14 | Two minutes later Müncheberg claimed another over St. Paul 's Bay , the pilot of this also taking to his parachute . |
| 15 | And eel-fishing looked much harder this time , the silver-grey often returning to its den empty-handed . |
| 16 | ‘ It was better even than being in a novel — this being , this fairly wallowing in a libretto . ’ |
| 17 | However , Wainwright offered stubborn resistance , and responded with some hard hitting from the baseline to level the score at 6–6 . |
| 18 | this , this is obviously where the brightest area is and that is becoming a bit burned out because erm if it was an automatic camera that was used it 's exposed for this consequently over-exposing on the inside of the boat . |
| 19 | Muller represents the future of South African rugby , a powerful , aggressive and gifted three-quarter currently playing alongside boyhood hero Danie Gerber and , he admits , ‘ learning from Naas Botha , the best of captains ’ . |
| 20 | I 'm not doing any , I 'm , I 'm , all this bloody panicking about getting a flaming gas fire sorted out and getting a carpet done , I 'm not , not bothering , we 'll just have to rough it for a while . |
| 21 | Now , I would suggest you start that physically bringing in the Christmas tree . |
| 22 | Is that , is any news , is that just gon na continue at the moment , what 's happening there ? |
| 23 | I came back t vice but I was very depressed just looking at the outside of the house . |
| 24 | Rich and LuperFoy ( 1988 ) , observing that no individual theory of anaphor resolution is complete , present a blackboard-like architecture ( with a relatively simple control structure ) into which implementations of different partial theories , each normally corresponding to one knowledge source , can be plugged for the purposes of evaluation . |
| 25 | The odds are favourable enough according to Chelsea 's Mike Hazard , who said of his adversary : ‘ He could cope in Poland , not just because of his ability to close people down and use the ball well , but temperament — you saw that when he scored the goal that won Arsenal the League . ’ |
| 26 | And I feel really guilty , I think oh I better bring her in and then she wakes me up at six o'clock bouncing on the bed ! |
| 27 | The alternative , spending the time until her trial in gaol , made her feel queasy just thinking about it . |
| 28 | He made me nervous just looking at him , his two hands pressing each side of my doorframe . |
| 29 | Her father Alan ( 43 ) , a garage owner , said : ‘ She was due to start a new school today and it had upset her that much just thinking about it . ’ |
| 30 | After all , you 'd get bored just hearing about football ’ . |