Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large chunk of his early career was spent trying to tame a series of fearsome Cadillac-powered Allards , and his own sports car idea basically revolved around putting chap but ample US V8 power into a light and well-mannered European chassis . |
| 2 | But just lay off bullying Bradley . " |
| 3 | She did n't look up when I said I was sorry I had been unkind , just went on opening drawers and dropping things and muttering ; I had begun to wonder if she had heard me , when she said , ‘ All right , all right , I 'm going just as soon as I can get my things together , I 'm not one to stay where I 'm not wanted . ’ |
| 4 | Unlike my old man I did n't go much on pubs , the dogs or cribbage but I still went on supporting West Ham most Saturday afternoons . |
| 5 | I asked him to bring me a sandwich and a glass of wine , and still went on reading Jane Eyre . |
| 6 | Now you surprise me cos I would have thought cos you always went round holding hands and looked so happy . |
| 7 | I always ended up making compromises . |
| 8 | While O'Neill would have shared some of those views , he was more concerned with the future than with the past and he deliberately set about ending Ulster 's ‘ petty apartheid ’ by visiting Catholic schools ( no previous Ulster premier had ever set foot in one ) , being photographed talking to priests and nuns , and meeting a cardinal . |
| 9 | Russian-Teleut clashes also occurred over trapping rights as well as over yasak payment from subject peoples . |
| 10 | You also grew up watching Grandfather 's clients literally get away with murder . ’ |
| 11 | They really dragged just watching telly , and everyone wanted to watch the soap operas and sit coms . |
| 12 | Where once dockers and carmen had gone in for breakfast or a midday meal they now sat around drinking mugs of tea and eating slices of toast and dripping . |
| 13 | Carpenters since the sixteenth century , the Tyne males now sat benignly sawing wood while the women and children did intricate carvings and played with sawdust . |
| 14 | Although the team had been instructed by the Scottish team doctor to avoid taking any medicinal substances which might be banned by the laws of the game , Johnson frequently took either smelling salts or the mild psycho-motor drug Reactivin at club level to make him more alert when he went out to play . |
| 15 | He immediately set about making contacts , with Baron Grimm and other German expatriates ; but , as before , he quickly ran up against snobbery , xenophobia and intrigue . |
| 16 | He even ended up inventing women — he is a very good story teller — to distract his mother 's jealousy from Veza , the amazing woman under whose spell he fell ( and who , in part three of the autobiography , he marries ) . |
| 17 | He squeaked out brief remarks then walked round shaking hands and wearing badges reading : ‘ Sorry I ca n't talk ’ and ‘ You did a good job . ’ |
| 18 | Electric installations were smashed with sledgehammers and then switched on melting connexions in complete destruction . |
| 19 | But yesterday Premier John Major again ruled out sending troops or air power to end the atrocities . |
| 20 | You quite happily went around killing parasites because they had no way to defend themselves against you . |