Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 2 | Jack was very much in the groove , rarely deviating from the fairways and the centre of the green , but was a mere one shot under par , while Miguel was one shot better . |
| 3 | He carried on walking through the bodies , looking at the nurses . |
| 4 | They carried on walking round the side-shows . |
| 5 | Jack and Richard Hannon keep on banging in the winners while others are rushing about like headless chickens in the belief that the sky is falling down . |
| 6 | He was most understanding about the needs of our party . |
| 7 | He now receded from the City , rarely appearing at the exchanges , even the Baltic , the scene of his most memorable deals in Russian tallow . |
| 8 | And perhaps in the minds of many , the memories of their tragic stay in Oxford were slowly softening at the edges . |
| 9 | The new knowledge is acquired through changes in the prices of resources and of products , brought about by the bids and offers of the entrepreneur-producers who are eagerly competing for the profits to be won by discovering where resource owners and consumers have ( in effect ) underestimated each other 's eagerness to buy or to sell . |
| 10 | Certainly much touching of the penises , penile erection , and display occur between young male geladas and the behaviour is commonly used in greeting behaviour . |
| 11 | They also vary greatly depending upon the attitudes adopted by individual ministers . |
| 12 | Winter colds with much sneezing , coryza and headache as if it would burst which is worse ( < ) motion , in a person who is chilly and wants to be warmly wrapped and has much aching in the bones . |
| 13 | If nothing else , the Christmas editions of NME , Sounds , and Melody Maker are a barometer of hip opinion , although not so revealing as the readers ' polls which follow a couple of months later . |
| 14 | They had heard loud banging from the boxcars , as if someone was trying to attract their attention . |
| 15 | He leans over and begins gently tonguing around the edges of Zeke 's nipple . |
| 16 | We can not tell which it was by merely looking at the facts ; we have to ask what his purpose actually was . |
| 17 | I had a successful 2 o'clock meeting with the organisers of a charity event to raise money for Guy 's Hospital cancer unit . |
| 18 | So , while McDonald 's is powerfully committed to its core values , it is constantly looking beyond the practices that made it successful in order to explore new opportunities . |
| 19 | He 's only looking at the pictures , he ca n't read really Eh what did you think of the dancing concert ? |
| 20 | On an acquisition level , it means only looking at the assets , market valuation and cash-flow rather than at the nature of the business . |
| 21 | Erm right so looking at the details of those , right what we 've , what we 're actually saying then is that if erm you , you would want to provide that income or want to make sure that that , that income was available should you die tomorrow ? |
| 22 | His analysis of French literature ( e.g. Goldmann 1964 ) , both the studies of classic writers ( such as Racine and Pascal ) and of more recent literature , is constantly searching for the world-views of the epoch in which the literature emerged : |
| 23 | The lighter the line the less stiff it is , and the more supple the line the more the bait will behave naturally according to the nuances of the current . |
| 24 | A national economic policy designed to reduce public expenditure , to liberate enterprise and to eradicate inflation , combined with a determination to limit local-government spending and intervention , was extremely damaging for the cities and their economies in the early 1980s . |
| 25 | Anstey 's approach to this edition was initially intended to be thematic but she has reverted to the chronological format of the first edition , thus not only dispensing with the problems of placing the themes but also giving the reader a parallel in comment on Thomas 's development both in poetry and prose . |
| 26 | Now , she lay panting by the fire , warming her flanks and apparently listening to the humans ' conversation . |
| 27 | As a matter of principle , if a deed has been executed by a donee of a power of attorney apparently acting within the terms of the power , a purchaser does not , in my judgment , have to inquire further into the substance of the transaction . |
| 28 | The qualities required of interviewers will vary greatly according to the complexities of interview schedules used and also the degree of informality permitted in the interviews . |
| 29 | ‘ In some gaols you see ’ , wrote Howard , ‘ boys of twelve or fourteen eagerly listening to the stories told by practised and experienced criminals , of their adventures , successes , stratagems and escapes . ’ |
| 30 | Ever since Vogue homed in on it last December , the Wonderbra has been literally bouncing off the shelves . |