Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC 's Children 's Department , Newman felt , was still catering for only a small proportion of the nation 's youngsters : the ordered few for whom parents bought Look & Learn , The Eagle or maybe even Hotspur . |
| 2 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 3 | After walking for approximately a quarter of a mile he stopped outside a small detached cottage on his left . |
| 4 | I carry on walking for quite a bit . |
| 5 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 6 | In both London and New York , the play has survived the departure of Pauline Collins , justifying for once the usually pretentious term of monodrama . |
| 7 | With his by now legendary disregard for anything current which was n't The Smiths or his personal protégé ( the superb Easterhouse fell in his favour at this time ) , Morrissey performed ceremonial destruction with Sade , Style Council , Ultravox , Carmel , Genesis , Marilyn and , ironically enough , Blue Rondo who by this time were probably bragging about how The Smiths once supported them ; poetic justice indeed . |
| 8 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 9 | There is a huge dining-room on the seventh floor , with seating for over a thousand , and the Galaxia Night Club on the ninth floor has panoramic views of the bay of Funchal . |
| 10 | At last he has players challenging for virtually every position . |
| 11 | Only by qualifying for either the English Tourist Board crown grading and quality scheme , or one of the other nationally recognised quality schemes , can establishments be singles out with the relevant symbol and this is the result of independent , objective assessment by trained inspectors , not as a result of decisions by council staff . |
| 12 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
| 13 | But since she 'd considered herself relatively fit , she was disconcerted when her muscles began aching after just a short time . |
| 14 | As he drew closer , walking with almost a swagger , George noted the way the sun glinted on a head of coppery curls . |
| 15 | It is not known whether the original breeding arose from mutation or selection , or , some say , by crossbreeding with perhaps a French breed or the Devon . |
| 16 | This spring , trousers are making a big comeback , walking into even the most formal occasions . |
| 17 | Only two appeared in more than one newspaper — each appearing in both the Sun and the Star . |
| 18 | You could , you could seat if you did , sort of classroom seating in there a , room this size in that , er , you could , you could probably seat six hundred people . |
| 19 | Ever since his time as a medical student , he had been drawn towards women who were higher up the career ladder , revelling in both the challenge and the reflected glory when he succeeded . |
| 20 | Tough love should be kind , gentle and understanding to both the family member and the primary sufferer , while nonetheless allowing each to be fully responsible for his or her own feelings and behaviour and for taking the full consequences of all choices of individual action . |
| 21 | This in turn has led to increasing Government interference in matters relating to both the organisation and professional functions of medical groups . |
| 22 | ‘ No , ’ she said carefully , marvelling at how the steam conducted the sound . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't understand why they pose for the tourists , ’ she said , marvelling at how the huge hoods were wired to flare out in soft folds around each tightly wrapped skull . |
| 24 | Others see it occurring at exactly the same time each day , but with no obvious connection with any other activity . |
| 25 | There the Reis-ul-Kuttab , or Reis Effendi as he was usually called by foreigners , the head of the grand vizier 's chancery , showed some signs of becoming at least an approximation to a foreign minister . |
| 26 | Besides having this example of baronial efficiency before his eyes , common sense might have suggested the importance of revealing at once the new conditions for ecclesiastical support which he had brought back from the Roman Council of 1099 . |
| 27 | The balls are normally spheroid and enclosed in a cage consisting of either a cross-shaped piece of sheet metal , often silver , or two metal bands . |
| 28 | However , only one in nine households is ‘ typical ’ , most consisting of just a man and a woman . |
| 29 | As they speed towards a moving insect , the pitch of their cries is constantly changing , continuously hunting for just the pitch needed to keep the returning echoes at a fixed pitch . |
| 30 | The defendant 's fourth sub-head of complaint was that the judge did this when the jury had been deliberating for only an hour , citing Reg. v. McKenna [ 1960 ] 1 Q.B . |