Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 2 | This rather reserved child , this self-styled future utopian essayist , found herself rattling on about unhappiness and happiness , found herself possessed by a desire to comprehend and convey what had happened , was happening , to a handful of people near her . |
| 3 | If we make the ( unrealistic ) assumption that , in driving some variables to integer values , the other variable values do not change much , we can estimate the optimal objective function value of the integer down-problem created by branching on at node k to be where z k is the optimal objective function value of LPk . |
| 4 | I could 'ear 'er voice goin' on about somefink or the ovver . |
| 5 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 6 | His father was a German-Jewish refugee and his mother Welsh , but Wartberg was an aggressive anglophile , given to wearing tweed suits and blathering on about flower growing , law and order , the decline of British standards ( he had just obtained one for his best-selling valve ) , the prohibitive business rate and so on . |
| 7 | After lifting from a chair or helping on to pan , give resident maximum privacy . |
| 8 | It came as the parents of 12-year-old victim Timothy Parry — hanging on to life by a thread in a Liverpool hospital came to terms with the fact that he is unlikely to survive . |
| 9 | However , the parents of 12-year-old victim Tim Parry — hanging on to life by a thread in a Liverpool hospital yesterday came to terms with the fact that he is unlikely to survive . |
| 10 | A multi-tribal alliance of their own is their only chance of hanging on to power when white rule ends at last . |
| 11 | Today , we debate a legislative programme that could have been proposed only by a Government who have no purpose other than hanging on to office for a few more months . |
| 12 | He was only gone a minute , and when he returned , it was with a couple in their fifties who were holding hands as if they were desperately hanging on to reality . |
| 13 | The film tantalises us — and Evelyn , who is hanging on to Ninny 's every word — right to the end . |
| 14 | ‘ Being left hanging on without explanation of what 's happening ’ , that 's your frustration . |
| 15 | But he said : ‘ We are a clear second in the table — and not just hanging on by goal difference . |
| 16 | DRAWING IN on time and to budget , Bovis Construction have handed over Waterloo International , the UK 's first international rail terminus to serve channel tunnel passengers . |
| 17 | He tottered away across the bath to Jazz and Bean , leaving Hoomey clinging to the rail , gazing down in amazement at the distance he had swum . |
| 18 | The extraordinary stories of oddball training methods , holidays on the job , the wilful behaviour , the bringing down of star players . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought what we were worrying about was a roof over your head , ’ I said , feeling that Aunt Louise needed bringing down to earth . |
| 20 | England 's management turned white when scrum-half Garth Wright drove his pack on the offensive , crushing England on a five metre scrum with Richter picking up and plonking down without hindrance . |
| 21 | At school , aged fourteen , I was only just starting to trim the fur off my jaw while some of the Spanish or Arab boys would be tucking in with razor and foam . |
| 22 | He 's struggling along at present with fifty or so sheep , growing a bit of food for himself along with his winter feed for the beasts . |
| 23 | Her body lay at the rest in the chapel downstairs , the light filtering in through lancet windows on her oak coffin and the dark-stained , hand-carved pews . |
| 24 | It was only fair that Neil Kinnock should be allowed to relinquish his post quickly , although the possibility of Roy Hattersley stepping in as deputy for a few months was ruled out too early . |
| 25 | Swings often start by touching down with drift in a cross wind and it is worth remembering that , from the point of view of avoiding a bad swing into wind , it is better to overdo the drift correction . |
| 26 | ‘ And when I see him hobbling in at night , I am very proud of him . ’ |
| 27 | Songs like ‘ High As A Kite ’ , ‘ Drop The Bomb ’ and ‘ Highway 's Gate ’ scrape the sky and then bring it crashing down to earth . |
| 28 | Unlike Marlowe , he acknowledges time as an all powerful element which brings such fantasies crashing down to earth . |
| 29 | If she pulled they would come crashing down on top of her , said Mr Wakerley . |
| 30 | After his Mirror Group Newspapers is floated in April , Robert Maxwell is stepping down as chairman of Maxwell Communication Corporation , and making his son Kevin chief executive . |