Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other characters were a sold-out leftie academic ( who drew much knowing laughter from the first-night audience ) , a right-wing academic , a military automaton , and an Amstrad word-processor which enigmatically took the floor in a central scene . |
| 2 | Within minutes a ten foot wall of water built up causing devastation in the centre of Cardigan and washing away everything in its path as the Mwldan tributary of the Teifi burst its banks . |
| 3 | First , we tried a direct approach and ground up polarizing region cells and put the mixture into agar blocks which we then grafted to the anterior margin . |
| 4 | The razorhead leapt up , but the troopers levelled their guns , so the youth sank back swearing vengeance . |
| 5 | THE market bounced back following publication of the Treasury report which painted a more optimistic picture of the state of the economy . |
| 6 | But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession , traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes . |
| 7 | Herd life extended beyond the office out to the organization man 's natural habitat , the suburban community , where he found even watching television was a group activity . |
| 8 | The writer well remembers the surge of power as the cars moved forward leaving motor vehicles well behind ; similar to that of an American PCC car , which the equipment was designed to emulate . |
| 9 | The problem which Jane and Nigel experienced over finding time to meet their tutors are fundamental to such projects . |
| 10 | and erm , we 'd got there and a young lady came along delivering milk you know with a big milk float and she put the , the twins Brenda and |
| 11 | The door burst open and two men came in wearing stocking masks . |
| 12 | She came back looking cross . |
| 13 | The windows had a sly , mean look , and Fenella had the sudden impression that the Workshops were not workshops at all , but a single crouching monster , black and hard-backed and scaly on the outside , but possessed of roaring , flaming innards , so that every breath it took belched out hissing steam and curls and wisps of flame . |
| 14 | We came here seeking refuge . ’ |
| 15 | Italy 's air force was told yesterday that unless it bombed fast moving lava flows pouring from Mount Etna to divert their course , the 6,500 people living at the foot of Europe 's highest volcano could face destruction . |
| 16 | Four wyverns from the Worlds Edge Mountains took to the air , swooping and marauding within the city while Goblin doom divers rained down causing panic and consternation . |
| 17 | The ban did not include Madeira , and an important trade opened up sending madeira wine to the Plantations ( the West Indies and the American colonies such as Virginia , New England , New York and the Carolinas ) . |
| 18 | He achieved little proselytizing success , but was more successful in his efforts to master the Persian , Arabic , and Turkish languages . |
| 19 | Annie McCafferty left the Bradley Dining Rooms and walked home feeling cross with herself . |
| 20 | As her fears bordered upon obsession , she began deliberately re-dialling telephone numbers Charles had called . |
| 21 | It started life as a flour mill , had a brief connection with the silk industry and finished up making iron piano frames . |
| 22 | THE first week of the general election campaign I spent carefully observing election coverage on television . |
| 23 | PRINCE Charles spent today meeting security forces in Northern Ireland , his movements kept secret after a week 's violence claimed six people 's lives . |
| 24 | This is exactly the system which many teacher-librarians and resource centre directors in Great Britain adopted for reprographic and audiovisual materials when they began consciously organizing resource collections ( rather than " libraries " ) in the late 19605 and early 19705 . |
| 25 | New York-born , he has based himself in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , an unfashionable choice by any standards , inspired by the years he spent there studying art and then drama . |
| 26 | The deterioration of relations between the two Korean states diminished any faint hopes of securing a compromise and Rhee ruled out using trade to improve contacts , UNCOK being left to reflect on the unstable internal situation and the combustible nature of the border along the 38th parallel . |
| 27 | He lumped together housing benefit , income support and unemployment benefit , arriving at an average benefit entitlement over the summer recess of £327 . |
| 28 | On May 14 a joint communiqué was issued outlining the guiding principles for settling the demarcation of their common border , which included not using force to resolve the issue . |
| 29 | So you started off doing kitchen maid work . |
| 30 | I started off playing mid-field er and I was switched to full-back by Billy Bremner at Doncaster half way through this season , and I been playing full-back since like . |