Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as defending her Redcar seat , Dr Mowlam is Labour spokesperson on city and corporate affairs necessitating much shuttling between Cleveland and London . |
| 2 | Mr Burrow said society was becoming more demanding in its expectation of the police , and the entire attitude of individuals could be based on a single experience of meeting an officer . |
| 3 | Captains , the public , and the media , in any order , all seem to be becoming more demanding in their requirements throughout all cricket . |
| 4 | These have proved to be such a success that there is now a virtual two month long waiting list at Tyseley with booking now stretching into April next year . |
| 5 | Your dramatic gestures will certainly mesmerize them , but they will be staring apprehensively at the glass , or laughing hysterically waiting for it to fall ! |
| 6 | And even in France , businesses , especially large ones , are becoming too demanding to be run by people without firsthand experience and a proven success record . |
| 7 | Coming out of the loo , she found Drew , looking equally ravishing in a blue striped shirt rolled up to show very brown arms . |
| 8 | Stay with that a minute , erm , erm , I mean I would n't have thought we were in a position to give an assurance that er erm , that that no other complaints which appear to be outside the local ombu ombudsman 's restriction will be dealt with by support staff , I mean I should think we 're continuing looking continually looking for ways of dealing with complaints at the most efficient and effective way , and if that |
| 9 | That is one point of view ; another is that these future Nobel laureates may in fact earn their prizes by bringing more supercomputing to science , and thus moving more of science into cyberspace . |
| 10 | The facts — that Chrissie has been caught taking food home , the higher than average food costs , etc. — show that things have n't been going entirely according to plan , but what are the causes ? |
| 11 | But when he thought he had reached the peak of his misery and was regretting ever coming to this place the rain started to slow and ease off . |
| 12 | So everything 's going really according to plan . |
| 13 | I found I was expected to make progress , entailing fast driving within the speed limits on all roads . |
| 14 | You were fucking lying there wrestling with your brother ! |
| 15 | We do n't want Americans to think we are n't hospitable , and besides , she 's bound to be lying there thinking of sex , poor little thing , and it 'll be all wet and hairy , and so deliciously — ’ |
| 16 | I was lying there thinking about fellatio at the time . |
| 17 | For a miracle , almost boiling hot water poured out of the taps into the bath and Julia let herself have a really deep bath for once , lying there dreaming about the day when her life might be whole again and weaving plans to make it so , until the skin of her fingers and toes crinkled and the water felt cold . |
| 18 | Perhaps I sneaked into your room in the middle of the night , while you were lying there dreaming in your cotton pyjamas . ’ |
| 19 | She was lying there worrying about that when she started to feel these twinges . ’ |
| 20 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 21 | And this method of actually going there living with them , learning their language and er so on s , really participating er would , finally there 's a way of actually in a sense , getting of the people , the nearer you can , anyway , of course , it 's relying on the people you stay with that you understand that something of the world comes over onto you so that imposing what 's essential in and So , here what Judith Oakley 's trying to do , is trying to understand how gypsies , themselves , differentiate , how do they define the boundaries between themselves and others . |
| 22 | On one sunny afternoon , when running and feeding a platen-machine ( by hand ) and sweating profusely owing to the heat , the rattle of the front-door bell told me to attend the counter . |
| 23 | Nayim now forward to Paul Stewart , sorry to Paul Allen , Allen lays it wide now to Fenwick , Fenwick to Gascoigne , Gascoigne cuts inside , this is where he 's his most dangerous , Gascoigne going forward looking for the one two to Walsh , to Gascoigne , Gascoigne 's on his way through , Gascoigne shoots — tremendous tackle — oh what a goal by Paul Gascoigne . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start — perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was because the heat was so intense . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start , perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was the heat . ’ |
| 26 | Therefore , by the mid-1970s , Cramlington was proceeding much according to plan , with a number of firms being attracted to the area and the consequent job creation being associated with extensive housing developments by both the private and , public sectors . |
| 27 | Having said that , the not-outrageous address file on my desktop machine was over 40K long — requiring much juggling between the Portfolio 's silicon drive and general memory . |
| 28 | So why are my neck hairs rising just writing about it ? |
| 29 | Control : Keep watering evenly according to growing conditions . |
| 30 | But now Blackburn moving forward looking for has gone , four minutes late |