Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had heard loud banging from the boxcars , as if someone was trying to attract their attention . |
| 2 | Two of them are ‘ common ’ sails , in which slats could be adjusted manually according to the speed and direction of the wind . |
| 3 | Last night , the town hall 's planning department confirmed the letter has been received merely asking for advice . |
| 4 | These schemes and the benefits they provide , in general , are organised hierarchically according to employment status and occupational class ( James , 1984 ) . |
| 5 | Strange as the taste of defeat was , however , Kylie shrugged off the episode and instead carried on looking to the future . |
| 6 | He had gone up to Magdalen College , asked at the Porters ' Lodge , discovered the grounds were closed ; then just carried on walking over the bridge , around the Plain , and back again down the High . |
| 7 | Taylor refuses to say whether Lineker would still be in his team had he carried on playing in England . |
| 8 | The man had collapsed and the vessel had carried on running into the water . |
| 9 | The colour may be varied perhaps according to the type of tools put out with it ; ‘ natural ’ for pastry cutters and patty tins , for instance . |
| 10 | In nightclubs and pop promo videos , it 's as if the banshees have come down screaming from the catwalk , staggering in their stilettos under the weight of their Max Factor cosmetics and costume jewellery . |
| 11 | Maggie had never been to the big barn before , the one that had looked so imposing from the air . |
| 12 | Americans knew far too much about the reality of strikes to accept a film in which , in the words of James Shelley Hamilton , ‘ the trouble arises not from working conditions but from a professional trouble-maker and is solved not according to any principles but by an act of sheer moronic terrorism ’ . |
| 13 | The epidemiology of H. contortus is best considered separately depending on whether it occurs in tropical and subtropical or in temperate areas . |
| 14 | On the boring but practical side — do n't get too carried away wandering through the Dartmoor mist — it 's all too easy to get lost so do n't try it unless you 're competent with a map and compass . |
| 15 | Serious cinema 's attempts to portray sexual passion have generally succeeded best according to the extent they have ignored this temptation : think of Brando , obese , with straggling grey hair and face plastered with pan-stick , howling obscenities as he floors Maria Schneider ; or Dennis Hopper , jumping on Isabella Rossellini like a mad dog with velvet , scissors , and mask . |
| 16 | Caught still standing at the window , Meg 's scattered treasure , her , now lost forever , blown wits . |
| 17 | I 've played it fast and loose before , and on the rare occasions when I 've disobeyed orders ( in the Rhineland during the First Crusade , in a little whorehouse in the backstreets of Byzantium , and on a cargo ship bearing perfumes from Punt ) I have come up smelling of roses . |
| 18 | Aye there some as come up travelling for seeds and for manure . |
| 19 | LIVERPOOL super-featherweight Jimmy Owens , who in August was involved in an acrimonious split with his manager Carl Moorcroft , has come up fighting with the most important contest and biggest payday of his career . |
| 20 | The offer was backdated to April , and there were now arrears waiting to be picked up varying from £653 to £12,090 ; she hoped they would consider that it was a reasonable offer . |
| 21 | FRONT COVER : Jonathan Tomlinson 's home-built 250hp tractor has speeded up silaging on the family livestock farm at Holt , Wrexham , and for contract work . |
| 22 | It looks , it 's come back looking like a brand new mower ! |
| 23 | Must 've come back looking like a ghost |
| 24 | The answer is partly that the vote in Rhineland-Palatinate , which lies just below Bonn , is now out of the way ; partly that he may regain some of his lost esteem in eastern Germany , where voters are heavily for Berlin ; but not least that Mr Kohl has almost always come back fighting after getting a slap in the face . |
| 25 | San Diego , California-based Metrosoft claims to be developing the first commercial multitrack MIDI audio software for NeXT workstations : MetroTracks can accommodate up to 32 virtual tracks , eight of which can be mixed simultaneously depending on hardware configuration , is compatible with most third party audio products supported by NeXT , cost starts from $600 and ships in September . |
| 26 | And it explains to them why has come out screaming at them and screaming abuse at them . |
| 27 | We only feel emotionally comfortable when everything can be tidily sorted out according to categories . |
| 28 | There are various ways in which this can be carried out depending on the age of the child and level of control of the parents . |
| 29 | The differentiation within the examination is to be carried out according to strict criteria , laying down in detail what the candidate is expected to know , understand , and be able to do . |
| 30 | Suicide is carried out according to a culturally standardized formula : after two weeks of sulking , one finally withdraws into the deep forest away from all human habitation , and hangs oneself from a tree . |