Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMA a magical realist adventure story is set in London , drawing successfully on African traditions . |
| 2 | It was not until the following summer that Cadwallon surprised Osric 's forces and slew the Deiran leader , thereafter ravaging widely across Anglian territory and slaying Eanfrith when he came to sue for peace ( HE 111 , 1 ) . |
| 3 | Anthony 's regular enquiries of his colleagues around Italy had at last borne fruit and Annunziata 's son had been discovered in a Roman hospital recovering slowly from serious wounds to his head and spine . |
| 4 | Arizona , according to one columnist , E.J. Montini , ‘ is like the kid who stole his parents ' car and is out careering on to other people 's lawns , crashing into garbage cans and running red lights . ’ |
| 5 | Instead , by sticking inflexibly for instant PR , claiming all the credit for constitutional reform , and continuing to rubbish Labour , Paddy Ashdown did his own party , and the cause of constitutional reform , a disservice . |
| 6 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 7 | The hot water cylinder is , in fact , used as the ‘ heat sink ’ for many solid fuel boiler systems allowing somewhere for excess heat to be dissipated ( sometimes a bathroom towel rail is used for the same purpose ) . |
| 8 | The repertoire on the Erato set , consisting mostly of familiar Mravinsky favourites , may also give a misleading impression . |
| 9 | Both ants and termites live in large colonies consisting mostly of sterile , wingless workers , dedicated to the efficient production of winged reproductive castes which fly off to found new colonies . |
| 10 | A Radio Moscow report of Feb. 26 noted that the situation had been aggravated by the absence of any Kazakh officers in a unit consisting mostly of indigenous servicemen . |
| 11 | The slope running down to the quarry-cliff was not steep , but its surface was very treacherous , consisting mostly of loose stones and shale , which were apt to slip under any movement . |
| 12 | ‘ I intend hanging on to junior for a while longer yet , but I 'll let you know . ’ |
| 13 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 14 | Along the length of the coast the story was now everywhere the same : Allied troops hanging on to vulnerable footholds , saved from annihilation only by their dogged courage . |
| 15 | The face was grinning , cheekless , with an eye hanging on to bare bone , glistening raw meat where great tooth marks showed clearly it had been half eaten . |
| 16 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 17 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 18 | Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’ |
| 19 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 20 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 21 | Everyone who is ahead of me is hanging on like crazy to their rung of the ladder . |
| 22 | International : Cotton republic is hanging on by slim thread |
| 23 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , in her mind , she had visions of the Brownings rattling along in high good humour with all manner of beautiful vistas to right and left as they trotted to Arezzo and she could hear the conversation and Pen 's excited laughter . |
| 25 | Only in areas remote from this authority , as in isolated mining settlements , or where the state was itself weak , as in the United States , could bourgeois masters exercise that sort of direct rule , whether by command over the local forces of public authority , by private armies of Pinkerton men , or by banding together in armed groups of ‘ vigilantes ’ to maintain ‘ order ’ . |
| 26 | Peterborough are jogging along in midtable while United are slipping down … |
| 27 | It is very thin and often has deep infoldings and outpouchings so binding together with neighbouring cells . |
| 28 | One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child , tucking in to great slabs of meat . |
| 29 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 30 | Sensibly comparing two foods of a very similar nature , they monitored a group of people eating a ‘ meal ’ consisting entirely of wholemeal bread , which contains 8.5 per cent of dietary fibre , and compared them with a group eating a ‘ meal ’ of white bread , which contains only 2.7 per cent dietary fibre . |