Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [conj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The merchant rubbed his hands together as if trying to wash them . |
| 2 | Individuals and small parties join together in the open water outside the kelp beds , where they swim up and down as if trying to get the courage to attempt the last lap . |
| 3 | ‘ I often suggested to [ the defendant ] to leave Paulette and find another woman whom he could get along with and stop mistreating her . |
| 4 | Here , a vast decaying tree whose roots were eaten away from the inside had begun to lean backwards as if longing to sit down , and a massive , arthritic branch had elbowed out several stones from the top of the wall against which it now gratefully rested . |
| 5 | As they walked , Blake heard the Doctor talking to himself , counting numbers quickly as if trying to catch himself out . |
| 6 | Nearby , several rocks have been piled up as if intended to make a rudimentary windbreak or wall . |
| 7 | This then was the paradox Neela grew up with and had to learn to grow out of . |
| 8 | These people had been driven from their homes with nothing but the clothes they stood up in and had struggled through a war-torn countryside , sometimes in sub-zero temperatures , to reach a refuge where food , shelter and warm clothing were in very short supply . |
| 9 | There are three attributes that you should look out for and try to develop in your paragraphs . |
| 10 | It 's too big to take out with you but the drawings and descriptions of over 300 common British birds are great for teaching beginners what to look out for when trying to identify a new bird . |
| 11 | Then he rolled back his chair and stood up sharply as if needing to give vent to a violent sense of frustration . |
| 12 | If , if our mid-field players and our back four players , whoever you like to , if our front players have to come back in and get involved , if that 's what they have to do , and everybody get behind the ball , that 's what you have to do . |
| 13 | And then you know , when you check up on it , the following day , you probably find the council 's been back in and forgot to secure it , so we 've got s a nail and some nails and a hammer , and we 'll er just re-secure it and let the the council know in the morning . |
| 14 | Mr Hale then ran back in and started to crawl on his stomach under the intense heat , climbing over debris which included dead bodies . |
| 15 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 16 | These are the years I look back on as having consisted entirely of long hot summers . |
| 17 | Surgeons at nearby Stoke Mandeville Hospital were able to put it back on and have restored some movement . |
| 18 | Charlie put his cap back on and turned to go , the box under one arm , a brown paper parcel under the other and a ticket to London in his top pocket . |
| 19 | The problem is to come up with an analysis and structure which is not only reasonably clear and self-consistent in terms of concepts of knowledge , but which maps on to and helps to explain the curricular structures that are already in place . |
| 20 | They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay , and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes . |
| 21 | It is almost as if having failed , the surgical staff can not bear to see the patient . |
| 22 | Creggan immediately turned round as if expecting to see some mighty enemy near by . |
| 23 | It seemed to Joan that the wedding-ring was burning her finger ; it caught the light , glistering brightly as if wishing to draw attention to the fact that it was embellishing an alien hand . |