Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Acrylix brushes helped me to make broad , glazing strokes , slowly building up a depth of colour . |
| 2 | Van Dijk has analysed the language of racism , thereby building up a picture of modern ideology which pays particular attention to the way that elite messages can be transformed into ordinary discourse ( van Dijk , 1985b , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | I remember the disgraceful way she allowed you to be neglected when you had flu , only bringing up a water biscuit or two when she deigned to climb the stairs ! |
| 4 | Either of these could match the new borders or blinds or undercurtains , perhaps bringing out a colour that had not been emphasized before . |
| 5 | Although the rules only allow the purchase of one new free-standing AVC policy a year , it is possible to purchase a different policy every year , so building up a spread of investments . |
| 6 | They were just two friends , enjoying the cool evening air , perhaps walking up a thirst before repairing to a beer hall . |
| 7 | You spend so long explaining why a sound check has to be done in situ that you miss the sound check . |
| 8 | After dinner we would gossip , play cards or perhaps walk along the Dee , idly picking up a piece of driftwood here and there along the way . |
| 9 | Richardson was extraordinarly charismatic , dressed in very tight trousers and thigh-length boots — which may have had something to do with my infatuation — and he characterised Richard as a man of great vanity , constantly picking up a mirror and checking himself in it . |
| 10 | At the same time , the Cobham Fellowship itself formed five smaller congregations from the one large group , only meeting twice a month as one church . |
| 11 | And , perhaps going back a bit and looking at the history of the last ten years , it is important to realize that we have developed small centres as well as large ones . |
| 12 | At first , I was only going out a coupla days a week . |
| 13 | It is not very easy to judge when you are two-thirds of the way through a turn , so turning round a buoy provides a good reference point . |
| 14 | Claiming that it is merely cleaning up a technicality , the government , in clause 50 of the current finance bill , is cheerily trying to rewrite the law , retroactively , five years after the event . |
| 15 | Well it 's only coming out a yard is n't it ? |
| 16 | ‘ But you are kinda running up a backlog in my favour account . ’ |
| 17 | They should be constantly asking why a bottle is the shape it is and whether the ingredients come from a whale or from a natural substance of which there is great abundance . |
| 18 | So crawling along a girder that was swaying gently under the dome of a gigantic space station induced a level of fear that Ace thought she could handle . |
| 19 | More orthodox critics feared that he was only stoking up a consumer boom which would reap the whirlwind in a vast price inflation . |
| 20 | Michael would 'ave bin twenty-four an' John twenty-five , ’ Sadie told her , suddenly taking out a handkerchief from her apron pocket and dabbing at her eyes . |
| 21 | no , there 's more schools than that , cos er the lady said that er , she goes I 'm , cos there is when you he went what schools are these ? , and so reading out a couple of schools , about four of 'em |
| 22 | Mr Lang was accused of merely carrying out a public relations exercise , however . |
| 23 | Show some ability to organise and present complex subject matter , eg putting forward a number of conflicting points of view , or weaving two strands into a story . |
| 24 | This has two properties together making up a property complex ; each property is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence . |
| 25 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 26 | And of course your parents not wanting you to do something is merely putting out a fire with gasoline . |
| 27 | Some areas of policy may be the subject only of unspecific recommendations , perhaps setting out a range of loosely worded options . |
| 28 | Each truck has to carry 26 of them , together weighing over a ton . |
| 29 | In the cases that followed ( ie the disposal of the whole of the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 3 ) ; a conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 4 ) ; and the conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to a third party ( Chapter 5 ) ) , once the husband had disposed of his interest no further tax considerations applied so far as the husband was concerned ( unless there was an element of gift involved in the conveyance not at arm 's length and the husband died within seven years , thus bringing in a charge to inheritance tax ) . |
| 30 | In addition , exercise does help to control the appetite so it may help you to reduce your intake — thus bringing about a weight loss in an indirect way . |