Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember once going to Anfield , losing 2-0 , and the chairman coming into the dressing room to congratulate us warmly on only losing by two goals . |
| 2 | The counsellor can play an important part in monitoring the quality , effectiveness and possible iatrogenic effects of medical treatment , and can do so without necessarily bringing into question medical authority or competence . |
| 3 | So because many elderly people ca n't see or hear very well , they may be missing information which the rest of us see and take in without even thinking about it . |
| 4 | It seems that many people , perhaps without even thinking about it , would rather do down the other player than cooperate with the other player to do down the banker . |
| 5 | Erm but it comes down to basically believing in well |
| 6 | It seems yonks since leeds were last on TV , the pleasure of going down the pub and getting tanked whilst being generally rowdy and watching the footy is a joy to behold , second only to actually going to the game itself … not long to go now … |
| 7 | Hayek argues that ‘ an order of the complexity of modern society can be designed neither as a whole , nor by shaping each part separately without regard to the rest , but only by consistently adhering to certain principles throughout a process of evolution ’ . |
| 8 | He was cutting his journey fine and it was only by actually jogging from Friedrichstrasse , and feeling a fool for doing so , apart from almost breaking his neck by slipping on the icy pavement , that he arrived at his office before the ominous red line was drawn . |
| 9 | It 's a constant challenge that I 'm centuries away from even thinking about mastering , but it 's definitely presented me with a universe of what 's out there left to do . |
| 10 | still talking to the referee there 's a lot of chirping going on out there , and the referee can clamp down on that very easily by just reaching for his hip pocket . |
| 11 | But Curbishley had few worries about beating Sunderland once they had had Kay sent off for foolishly retaliating against Walsh . |
| 12 | I was arrested twice , once for trying to get out of the place , and once for just walking around the course , both times without wearing a badge . |
| 13 | On winter days , usually after unsuccessfully battling against the spiteful thrusts of nature , a bacon sandwich and a mug of Bovril laced with sherry is guaranteed to soothe the injured spirit . |
| 14 | Would have difficulty pro possibly in actually getting to their flat . |
| 15 | This we must do , we 've got ta help our unemployed members because some of those who are unemployed have been some of our best fighters and they 're still in there fighting despite the fact they have n't their jobs . |
| 16 | I said that phone bill 's still in there waiting to be paid . |
| 17 | Animals with much simpler ears and brains than us can reduce the problem further by only responding to very narrow frequency bands . |
| 18 | While there was no point in antagonising Luke further by deliberately going against his wishes , was there really any good reason why she should n't accept Rob 's invitation ? |
| 19 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , I thought about it but I decided that the family had enough to put up with without learning about me . |
| 21 | The Spanish Socialist Party and its trade union organization , the UGT ( General Workers ' Union ) , had gained strength both from initially co-operating with the dictatorship and from subsequently opposing it . |
| 22 | Cover the cake with the appropriate pieces of fondant — for the front side with the holes , gently press on before neatly cutting around the holes and removing the pieces of surplus fondant . |
| 23 | It seems the collectors get a kick out of just looking at them . |
| 24 | She still goes into Stockton Library every day when she finishes work and says : ‘ I come out of there staggering with books . ’ |
| 25 | The wind died and we lay out in midstream drifting with the current . |
| 26 | But his duties extend far beyond just presiding over debates in the House of Commons , as Simon Mares reports from Westminster . |
| 27 | But his duties extend far beyond just presiding over debates in the House of Commons , as Simon Mares reports from Westminster . |
| 28 | With Black Fury Warner Bros had just gone a little too far by even referring to strikes and labour problems at a time of mounting industrial tension but the popular and critical reception to the movie showed that the company were not wrong to believe that they had the technical ability and the actors to make films whose reality would be appreciated . |
| 29 | He wished she was n't for ever tapping on the door of the room that was meant to be his , calling out to him when he did n't answer . |
| 30 | ‘ These women just ca n't stand the pace , can they ? ’ he appealed to Luke cheerfully before inevitably focusing on his own concerns . |