Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff Richer had choreographed the salacious routine , which began with me oozing down a cat-walk in a long black velvet evening coat and sliding it off my shoulders as I turn to camera revealing the lace gown . |
| 2 | Willie was in the town garage , giving good advice to someone stripping down a motor bike . |
| 3 | It is rather like someone switching on a cassette in one room and then walking into another . |
| 4 | The four Commandos on the 3″ mortar were still firing their bombs , each as it left the muzzle of the mortar making a distinctive musical sound like someone blowing down a length of drainpipe . |
| 5 | It is likely that someone taking up a post direct from library school will have far less practical or quasi-practical experience of book selection than of the two preceding activities , and this may mean that the manager needs to introduce his staff to the basic elements of book provision work in addition to the special features of a particular system . |
| 6 | The management problems encountered by someone taking up a first managerial appointment in a medium-sized branch . |
| 7 | someone tugging off a pair of tights … |
| 8 | Erm if we see you know , if we see somebody walking down a walkway , and he 's got a stereo in his arm , arms should I say , and he puts it into a car then obviously it a it arouses our suspicion , we 'll take a quick note of the car 's registration number , and we 'll pass the relevant information through to Police Station . |
| 9 | Thus , the decentralization of industry to the peripheral regions was a classic example of its seeking out a green and vulnerable labour force ( the women of these areas ) , a necessity forced on industry by competition . |
| 10 | Generally , however , anyone wishing to buy or sell listed shares will want to do so at the best price obtainable and for that purpose to use the facilities of The Stock Exchange instead of himself seeking out a willing counterparty . |
| 11 | Yeah good old laugh , I remember my scout motto , I promise that I 'll do my best and do my duties its going back a long , long way brother . |
| 12 | With financial support from the DES , the Language Teaching Centre is investigating the feasibility of recruiting trained foreign language teachers , particularly in the Federal Republic of Germany , which has a considerable surplus , and reschooling them in a custom-made , one term induction course prior to their taking up a teaching-post in a British school . |
| 13 | Soon , he found himself standing over a young Dragoon who was lying on the ground . |
| 14 | In seconds he found himself hovering over a group of them which swayed this way and that beneath him in the dark , not nice and firm like the dead branch set in his cage . |
| 15 | Twenty-five minutes later , as he climbed the steps of St Martin's-in-the-Field , he found himself offering up a little prayer , its sentiments not so very different from those of the carols this congregation would presently be singing . |
| 16 | To waste them cleaning out a drawer of plastic carrier bags instead of scrambling up lofty pinnacles is something you may regret . |
| 17 | Fifty yards off the fox ran into some hares and they went careering off in all directions , one of them dashing up a heather slope to cause an explosion of grouse . |
| 18 | While other shoe makers were suffering from the recession DMs Northampton shoe factory was hiring more staff — there are now 2,500 of them turning out a pair of shoes every 4 seconds . |
| 19 | Are you building up a small library of essential books ? |
| 20 | We do n't like you filling in a form because we ca n't read your writing . ’ |
| 21 | As soon as he sets foot on the elaborate stairway which rises three floors from the dark hall , itself leading off a gloomy cobbled courtyard , he has the feeling that he is leaving for a blessed hour or two his insubstantial world . |
| 22 | I could n't , I ca n't believe though you growing up a bit better now . |
| 23 | Erm two things now have cropped up number one of course is that there 's a fair chance within the next year we 're gon na lose Bill anyway through civilianisation , and secondly er the fact that er his boss er Rick has said to him , look I do n't want you going up a division any more to do erm A L O work , quite reasonably , he 's not being funny about it , it 's quite reasonable , cos its mileage . |
| 24 | ‘ Since Tweed appears to have scooted , are you sending out a general alert , setting the hounds after him ? ’ |
| 25 | I watch you freewheeling along a vine-wrapped colonnade , and pause under an archway wrought in stone and lovely with purple flowers ringing in the new light . |
| 26 | When she first stood in for Terry Wogan she insisted , ‘ I love standing in for Wogan but I 'm honestly not looking for The Sue Lawley Show with my name in lights and me swooping down a staircase . ’ |
| 27 | I once found an injured one walking along a beach near where I live , and when I picked it up to see what was wrong , I underestimated the length of its beak . |
| 28 | RAMSES WIBBLITT THE SECOND ( aka Ian Osborne ! ) tries to find something interesting down a sewer . |
| 29 | Were we marking out a soccer pitch ? |
| 30 | Are we going out a third time ? |