Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe because tonight the warning had been a long time sounding , had started its tormented wailing just when everyone began to think the bombers were n't coming . |
| 2 | There 's no chance of this occurring here as the Doctors continue on their premeditated way to becoming this generation 's Wolfe Tones ( dreary Irish folk re-pub-licans from the '70s ) . |
| 3 | The clocks are very expensive — some costing more than ten thousand pounds , but even in the depths of a recession the firm thought it had enough work to keep it ticking over . |
| 4 | a couple of sessions purely on the actual , no public speaking that 's right , it was actually public speaking rather than |
| 5 | There was always a sort of universal coming together when an emergency was averted , when a human life was saved . |
| 6 | has become an increasingly dangerous on this right hand side I have said just now they must try and stop this coming in because he is getting some magnificent balls in to the penalty area and sooner or later they 're gon na concede a goal . |
| 7 | There 's a few renting now cos they ca n't sell them . |
| 8 | Similar intervention apparently occurred in RENFE in the 1985 bargaining round when an improved offer was made following a meeting between confederal leaders of the UGT and the minister of transport ( see ch. 7 ) . |
| 9 | For a long time Roe has harboured a desire to do some commentating so when he had the chance at the European he took it with both hands . |
| 10 | It 's a bit dangerous driving round if his eyes are like that . |
| 11 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 12 | but um I 'm a great believer that it 's rather nice to have that going on while the event is going on you know you sit and munch a corned beef butty as you dribble your coffee down the front of your shirt |
| 13 | So it looks as if er nature has kind of erm struck a bargain in this respect , that each parent can contribute exactly half , but I think it 's , we 're only just beginning to find out about what happens then and my guess is about internal conflict between genes because I strongly suspect that there must be a lot of that going on because , as I think you 've rightly seen , if we take this view of evolution as selecting for individual genes , then we would expect conflict even within the gender . |
| 14 | The recession is hitting young people hardest in the North-East with unemployment among under 25s growing faster than across the working population as a whole , said Steve Pickering , regional secretary of the General , Municipal and Boilermakers Union . |
| 15 | Well now you 've got ta generate it you got ta have electric going outside so you do n't you got ta put these in ai n't you ? |
| 16 | Is there any way that I can start these running automatically when I get into Windows ? |
| 17 | Under the Finance Act 1948 , section 39(1) , directors and employees of bodies corporate earning more than £2,000 per annum were taxed under Schedule E on certain benefits in kind . |
| 18 | The one that kept that getting out when the wall got knocked down or something ? |
| 19 | They said ‘ Do n't let it happen , ‘ Leave 'em all hanging out as they are . ’ |
| 20 | They were all laughing now as Charles said , ‘ You did n't ? ’ |
| 21 | Just try our ideas , all costing less than £1.50 per person — and wait for them to ask for more . |
| 22 | No good looking further than that . |
| 23 | They are all going on as you and I must , Emily . |
| 24 | ‘ But that said , if people feel the way they do , if you do n't think I have your best interests at heart , if we are n't all pulling together as one , then I have personally failed . |
| 25 | It 's better going up than down . |
| 26 | She pictured them all staring up as she came in and Michael Swinton giving rapid orders to Punch as he had done before , and saw herself putting her basket on the table and showing him what she had brought , the taste and spirit of Christmas from Bishopstow , from her house , her own establishment . |
| 27 | The ninety-one resident freeholders in Craven — about one man in twenty — were , as everywhere else , measurably better off than other people , almost half owning goods worth at least £2 , and only sixteen having less than £1 's worth . |
| 28 | They were all crossing together when they saw the skid , the boy on the motorbike , out of control and ploughing towards the sedate black Morris Minor . |
| 29 | The usual pattern of summer high , with June , July and August each having more than 300 readers , and winter low , with less than 200 per month , was observed . |
| 30 | There will be a one-third discount for those driving more than 2,500 miles a year on business and two-thirds off for those driving more than 18,000 miles . |