Example sentences of "[prep] a [adv] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late one afternoon , after a particularly demanding day , she sat down at her desk and burst into tears . |
| 2 | Occasionally , after a particularly trying day , we would go out for a drink together — but no more Apricot Sunsets , thank you very much . |
| 3 | Instead , Nijinsky came to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe after a uniquely testing season — unique because it included the first Triple Crown since 1935 . |
| 4 | So Tommy the waiter carefully hung up his yellow waistcoat with its white lining and ordered some wine from room service and in a while after a long easing shower slept for eight solid hours and did n't dream about Filmer . |
| 5 | After a long running row with the locals , the diocese has decided enough is enough and plan legal action . |
| 6 | Seb was working with Christian on top of a steadily rising haystack , the last of many . |
| 7 | Stones dropped from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship fell to the deck at the foot of the mast and not some distance from the mast , as Aristotle 's theory predicted . |
| 8 | Galileo took the argument further and claimed that the correctness of his law of inertia could be demonstrated by dropping a stone from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship and noting that it strikes the deck at the foot of the mast , although Galileo did not claim to have performed the experiment . |
| 9 | Even in a ‘ sweep ’ movie [ see 5 ] like The Last Emperor , O'Toole 's Law deprived him of a Best Supporting nomination . |
| 10 | This is fast enough for our central vision to be fooled into the illusion of a continuously moving picture . |
| 11 | In fact , the noise and movement were outward expressions of a relentlessly ticking brain . |
| 12 | explained the discrepancy between their finding and Cohen 's estimate of a longer lasting icon in the left visual field by arguing that the masking paradigm employed by Cohen does not allow measurement of icon persistence independently from encoding rate . |
| 13 | As he raced around one sharp corner he almost ran into the back of a slow moving lorry . |
| 14 | The humming and buzzing sounds of summery woods faded away into a dreadful silence , like the sudden stopping of a heavily ticking clock in a room with shrinking walls . |
| 15 | The progression associated with ionization of a strongly bonding level may show a maximum ( the vertical ionization energy ) well down the band , and we may not detect the ( 0 → 0 ) level ( the adiabatic ionization energy ) . |
| 16 | The factors which lead to breakdown in such caring , and in particular to the emergence of a predominantly rejecting relationship , are still imperfectly understood . |
| 17 | It is relevant to note here the author 's inclusion of scenes of a physically titillating dimension . |
| 18 | As she finished the last morsel of a perfectly running Brie , she said , sighing : |
| 19 | It was all too much for Sir Patrick Mayhew , the Northern Ireland Secretary , who appeared to take more than 40 winks with the tell tale sign of a rhythmically nodding head giving him away . |
| 20 | To the frockcoated bankers at Coutts he was a welcome asset in the account of a perennially trying customer . |
| 21 | My mother told me it was six ; I could not feel the lateness in the day , other than the westward blare of a reluctantly falling sun . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that there have been many reports describing the central effects of neuropeptides on gastric and pancreatic secretion , there has been only one previous report of the effects of a centrally acting peptide on biliary secretion . |
| 23 | We have maintained a high level of marketing activity in the traditional areas of our work with the result that we brought in a greater value of tender enquiries in 1992 than we did in the previous year , and this we achieved against the backcloth of a continually reducing market . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , the coverage in England is not as widespread as we would like , leaving many areas without the benefit of a formally functioning Association . |
| 25 | In the case of modularity , there seems a natural explication if we take seriously Minsky 's idea of a highest organizing module . |
| 26 | What we can say , though , is that the picture which emerges from these is not of a monolithic bloc but of a constantly mutating organism made up of elements which are symbiotic and mutually contradictory at the same time ( see , for example , Sanjek 1988 ; Hirsch 1969 ; Peterson and Berger 1971 ; Hardy n.d. ; Frith 1978 ; 1983a ; 1988a ) . |
| 27 | Grouped by region , date and school , the casts were displayed in the palais du Trocadero built for the 1878 Exposition Universelle and expanded in the 1930s as part of a constantly evolving display . |
| 28 | This verdict may be the last attempt of this generation to keep intact the myth of a unanimously resisting France , for it is now under review by the Court of Cassation . |
| 29 | Any published note on the subject at the moment can only be a snapshot of a rapidly moving situation ; the applications can be classified but the individuality and absence of repetition of R&D projects would make detailed descriptions of specific applications of very narrow interest . |
| 30 | This was clear to Leibniz but not at all to Kant , although Leibniz , not surprisingly , found it difficult to provide a satisfactory clarification of the conditions of intelligibility of the idea of existential uniqueness , or explain why should there not be duplicate universes , and was finally reduced to appealing to the idea of a rationally acting God . |