Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few youngsters may go on sniffing for a while — perhaps regularly with their friends . |
| 2 | And every day of those five weeks has been a knife slowly twisting in a wound . |
| 3 | Mr Tarrant — kindly portrayed in The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans as Mr Stodham — later introduced Edward to Mr Noble ( the father of his future wife ) who was slowly dying of a malignant , tubercular throat disease but was still actively engaged as ‘ Paul Pelican ’ , an influential journalist and critic . |
| 4 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 5 | In successfully pressing for a referendum on the Common Market , he obliged Wilson to suspend the doctrine of collective Cabinet responsibility , an event without precedent since the National Government had done the same on the free-trade issue in the early thirties . |
| 6 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
| 7 | The University was fortunate in successfully bidding for a capital grant from the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) towards the cost of a £1.5 million extension of the Pathfoot Building , now completed and being used to re-locate the Department of History with the rest of the School of Arts in Pathfoot . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , however , the book 's value as a work of reference is somewhat undermined by errors , some apparently hinting at a lack of background knowledge , while other statements are contradicted by the sources cited : e.g. John Graham , Lord Kilpont becomes John Stewart , Lord Kinpont — a gentleman otherwise unknown to history ; Balcarre 's and Barclay 's regiments of horse are confused ; Sir James Scott of Rossie becomes Sir James Scott of Rosyth ; and variant spellings of proper names abound . |
| 9 | There are over 600 multinationals in a ‘ billion-dollar-club ’ and a host of smaller fry all competing for a share of the market . |
| 10 | so it is so easy when you 're only helping on a side line because you 're not doing any of the thought processing |
| 11 | It 's never going to rumble through the floor in the way that a similarly priced 4x10 would , but they 're obviously catering for a gap in the market which is n't being filled very successfully . |
| 12 | But , if it 's only hanging by a thread , let it fall apart and build something new from the components . |
| 13 | As the weeks passed she became accustomed to seeing Luke already at his desk when she arrived , immaculately suited , his dark head , with that one dramatic streak of white hair , perfectly groomed , his long , square-tipped fingers idly toying with a gold fountain-pen as he frowned over his mail . |
| 14 | However , recent research indicates that the slim person is not necessarily eating in a way to promote maximum health . |
| 15 | We 're grateful to those who provided them , not least the Cleveland chap who wrote on the back of a particularly unamused picture postcard of Queen Victoria , apparently eating from a box of Huntley and Palmer 's biscuits . |
| 16 | The nature of this will vary greatly depending on a rose 's ancestry , while its appreciation is a very personal matter . |
| 17 | That should stop Pat Eddery or Peter Scudamore suddenly appearing on a horse instead of an obscure rider . |
| 18 | Despite much monstering as a sort of Thatcher Terror man , Eric Pickles is essentially rather decent , and very stuffy about racial prejudice . |
| 19 | The prospect of a soldier ‘ literally dying with a redundancy notice in his hand is not a prospect that any decent MP should contemplate ’ . |
| 20 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 21 | One may think that Tolkien was rightly pushing towards a clarification of his ‘ mythology ’ . |
| 22 | Merely looking for a person is not an assault : Arobieke [ 1988 ] Crim LR 314 ( CA ) . |
| 23 | The Russian swore , feverishly searching for a grenade . |
| 24 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 25 | that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale |
| 26 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
| 27 | As we shall see , this may well have been politically motivated to the extent that the relics of the archbishop so recently and brutally murdered by Cnut 's countrymen were perhaps serving as a rallying point for discontent in the city . |
| 28 | So acting for a buyer , if no protective entries appear on the Register you need have no qualms ; if they do , you will of course question them by requisition or otherwise . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm only looking for a taxi . ’ |
| 30 | Another 17.93 per cent he found to be living in ‘ secondary ’ poverty , i.e. their income was above the minimum but Rowntree 's investigators described them as ‘ obviously living in a state of poverty , i.e. in obvious want and squalor ’ . |