Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that the board you buy has a large daggerboard ( longer than 50cm ) which fully retracts into the hull leaving nothing sticking out under the board . |
| 2 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 3 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 4 | You were n't supposed to turn the radio off , but I used to so they could n't hear me singing along with the tape . |
| 5 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 6 | No point in me hanging on to the stuff , cos the baby 's grown out of it , that 's it , is n't it ? |
| 7 | Once she kept me hanging around for an hour and a half , which might sound like a backward step , but you have to remember she was sitting in a place of her own choice , and was taking it all in . |
| 8 | COLWYN BAY 'S BJ Welsh Knockout Cup campaign ended in disaster when unfancied Pontblyddyn sent them crashing out with a seven-wicket blasting . |
| 9 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 10 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 11 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 12 | But when they saw me walking out of the sea , they welcomed me warmly with cries of astonishment and delight . |
| 13 | You could hear them squeaking off from a distance . |
| 14 | And then they heard me tearing out of the sound-web . |
| 15 | I mean you see them walking around particularly people who go for the big dogs , you see them walking around with a big thick necks , the tattoos , the er the boots and the jeans rolled up . |
| 16 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 17 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 18 | Like someone struggling out of a drugged sleep , Sarella flickered open her eyelids , blinking in confusion as if unsure as to where she was . |
| 19 | Why am I walking backwards into the house ? |
| 20 | Considered as an institutional bridge , Schloss Hartheim was part of my winding down from the experience of the KZ . |
| 21 | We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight . |
| 22 | ‘ It must 've been someone walking home from the pub . ’ |
| 23 | Poor Damien was kneeling at the entrance to the sanctuary screen , an easy target for someone lurking here with a crossbow . ’ |
| 24 | If you see someone acting suspiciously near a house — call the police immediately . |
| 25 | ‘ What was once a one mile journey into Garrison for someone living just on the other side of the border became a 26 mile round trip . |
| 26 | At the same time I could hear someone tapping frantically on the glass door of the kiosk , someone far too anxious to clamber in with me . |
| 27 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 28 | I going round for a collection too . |
| 29 | No way was I going out with a Famlio ship in my flight path . |
| 30 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |