Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four found Mary and Reggie in the kitchen , eating properly off plates . |
| 2 | Wear on leather soled shoes was saved by sticking on over soles made from pieces of old tyre inner tubes . |
| 3 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 4 | The growth of the liturgical movement , the lay apostolate , biblical scholarship , the need for Catholics to participate in democratic politics at least in order to protect Catholic rights , the urgency of collaborating locally with non-Catholics in opposition to Nazism : all this and much else had produced a profoundly altered consciousness within the more wide-awake parts of the Church by the later years of Pius XII 's reign . |
| 5 | Some of the common strategies deployed within lyrics , for instance creating the impression of the lyric 's reader as an intruder gazing voyeuristically into texts meant for private circulation , is one of the devices employed by poets to protect themselves . |
| 6 | Californians have a reputation for latching on to fads , and it 's true — yet a lot of what they preach is eminently sensible . |
| 7 | The importance of maintaining links and collaborating effectively with parents and children is also indicated in the literature ( Department of Health and Social Security , 1985 ; Aldgate et al . , |
| 8 | So , of course , I was n't recovering properly between sessions . |
| 9 | It is even harder to picture them leaving the defence of their border with Turkey to decisions taken in a distant European capital , and to a garrison in Thrace consisting mostly of soldiers from Germany , Italy , Spain or wherever . |
| 10 | THE nearest a nurse usually gets to clinical research is to act as the research team — consisting mostly of doctors . |
| 11 | The first army , consisting mostly of Kislevites and fast-moving mounted troops , marched to Praag in the hope of relieving the siege . |
| 12 | And that leads to the third , less obvious , reason : the market-place itself , to work efficiently , needs consumers who know how prices compare , and who act on that knowledge buying at the right price , not buying if the price is too high for this to have an influence on prices , through traders who set attractive prices competing successfully against traders who set inflated prices , it is by no means necessary for all consumers to be actively price-conscious . |
| 13 | A plant that may only flower once in a hundred years but grows at up to seven inches a day is catching on with gardeners . |
| 14 | And it 's catching on with arachnaphobics everywhere . |
| 15 | Set in Alaska , it stars the Canadian folk-singer k. d. lang as Kotz , an orphaned Eskimo of ambiguous sexual identity and brooding potential violence , who latches on to Roswitha ( Rosel Zech ) , a middle-aged German emigree librarian still hanging on to memories of lost happiness like the jars of preserved berries she keeps in her bedroom . |
| 16 | There is an urge to recapture the missing person in some way by hanging on to memories , and treasures . |
| 17 | Some more crag rats were further proving the delights of Yorkshire limestone , holding on to ledges with their eyelashes and hanging on to spars of rock by their nostrils , swarming in a team of a dozen or so all over the face of the scar like a plague of dayglo flies . |
| 18 | We may be hanging on to relationships which reinforce low levels of self-esteem . |
| 19 | But the left can not be equally self-serving by hanging on to absolutes . |
| 20 | It seemed fitting for Thatcherism to end , not with a bang , but with the protracted whimper of a ‘ hung ’ parliament ; with the Tories struggling on for days trying to patch up some squalid deal with the Ulster Unionists , before Neil Kinnock and Paddy Ashdown were driven to 10 Downing Street in their Daimlers . |
| 21 | One other Sunday paper died in the 1960s , after struggling on with subsidies from the Cooperative movement . |
| 22 | Thereafter , possibly because the magazine began to appear more irregularly , Minton produced one further design , showing pages of manuscript fluttering down between buildings , and which was used for the next seven issues . |
| 23 | Sherrin recalled the actor occasionally phoning in with ideas for the monologues , but Crawford 's desire to deliver a eulogy to Sir Winston Churchill after the wartime Prime Minister 's funeral met with a cold response from his producer . |
| 24 | Hard-edged , smelling distastefully of banknotes on snow , they sketched for her , faster than light , a helix of numbers . |
| 25 | Over the last three years , the Stattauto ( " car alternative " ) scheme has involved 1,800 German families , banding together in groups of up to 30 people each to buy a car , which is then rented out among the group at the rate of US$2 per hour — substantially cheaper than commercial rates . |
| 26 | The excitement of a group of horses galloping together with hounds at heel would be just as intense . |
| 27 | Finally , the system must provide for the coordination , integration and binding together of services so that they function as one |
| 28 | Watching these changes about him , and seeing the leaves of the trees behind the cages turn rusty brown and then come tumbling down on gusts of wind , Creggan grew restless and ill at ease . |
| 29 | One is a wall mural consisting entirely of fishes spiralling towards and outwards about a single pole ( Figure 7 ) . |
| 30 | It does seem fairly common for children to produce project work consisting entirely of reiterations of knowledge they already have , rather than advancements of that knowledge . |