Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NCR Corp has finally abandoned the traditional mainframe business , driven out of it by another company that is hanging on in there by its fingernails . |
| 2 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 3 | Under its headline ‘ Mercantile Tricycles Denounced ’ , the Graphic described how , in default of paying a 10 shillings fine plus costs , this cycling desperado was sentenced to seven days ' imprisonment — and what is more , poor Thomas Duff had been estimated by the police to have been rattling along at somewhere between 8 and 10 miles per hour . |
| 4 | As she began to choke she kicked and struggled for breath before tumbling down into nowhere . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 6 | To my knowledge I know that it 's happening in at least half a dozen mines . |
| 7 | This means , I am defined by not being my opposite : not a man , not walking in from outside . |
| 8 | I 've just heard about a very good antique shop opening over at Warmly . |
| 9 | The feeling of foreboding builds as soon as she wakes and remembers that in a few hours she will be jetting off to yet another exotic location . |
| 10 | A pisteur outdid them on his day off by skiing the top section of the mountain nonstop all day and notching up at least 130,000 vertical . |
| 11 | Behind the empty and desolate bar , stood the solitary figure of Tim , the barman , calmly tearing up at least half-a-dozen pages of unpaid drinks in the name of Denis O'Neil . |
| 12 | This , I suggest , is what has been happening up to now . ’ |
| 13 | er at the moment I was n't wanting to s s change any anything that , which is been happening up till now , I mean if people do want to come in here at weekends or late I do n't see any reason |
| 14 | We also got unanimous sympathy for pissing on Spurs , but ending up with just a point . |
| 15 | You should aim to avoid inducing them to break their contracts by walking out without either giving that notice or agreeing that the notice period be shortened . |
| 16 | He appeared regularly in the shop , invariably walking out with yet another purchase for which he had scant use . |
| 17 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 18 | ‘ I was walking back from here last night when I got lost … ’ |
| 19 | Sarre ( 1981 ) points to the quite marked fluctuations in numbers throughout the 1970s ( although he recognizes the data limitations ) which reached a peak in 1972 and a low in 1975 , climbing back to about 155,000 in 1979 ( table 5.4 ) . |
| 20 | There are plenty of surgical patients walking around with only one lung , and some of them are down to a third of normal lung area . |
| 21 | In utter darkness , breathing rank air and deafened by the breakers outside , he kept himself alive by groping around for newly hatched swiftlet nestlings and the grubs which thrive in the dung on the cave floor . |
| 22 | Perks were climbing into the utility bunkers of the parking bay , bobbing about in there . |
| 23 | So there 's a lot of people walking about with just taking bloody tablets who probably really should have a by bypass . |
| 24 | cos is southern Italy and it was nice and sunny during the daytime , so much so that we were walking about in just T-shirts er and all the Italians that came to us said , ye well language , what on earth are you doing without your er sweater |
| 25 | The immediate threat to the green form scheme was thus liked , with a question mark left hanging over at least aspects of it . |
| 26 | I suspect that Pound never went further into Aubeterre than this inn , and one needs to have walked in his footsteps from Chalais to Aubeterre to see how he could well have done this , skirting the hill , stopping for perhaps a mid-day meal in the inn , and then pushing on at once for La Tour Blanche . |
| 27 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |
| 28 | Obviously a writer who is happy with ‘ super-refined ’ ( elsewhere he says that Eliot 's ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ is ‘ extraordinarily sensitized ’ ) is not a critic worth pausing on for long ; and yet when Untermeyer cites all too patent imitations of Eliot 's ‘ Sweeney Among the Nightingales ’ in quatrains by Osbert Sitwell and Herbert Read and Robert Nichols , one can see good reason for him to think that Eliot s reputation , achieved so fast on such a slender body of work , was no more than modish . |
| 29 | Those products of reproduction — children — that are best adapted to the current circumstances will generally survive until they are of a suitable age to reproduce , passing on at least some of the characteristics favouring survival to their own children : those who are poorly adapted to the current circumstances will , in general , either die young or be unable to find a mate . |
| 30 | An eagle looking down from above implies a threat whereas a heron flying from A to B suggests a more peaceable purpose . |