Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denmark and Holland usually back Britain when it champions free-market causes ; yet , like Britain , they want the common agricultural policy to go on subsidising their large farms . |
| 2 | The LDP 's share of the vote fell by more than 3 per cent compared with the 1986 lower house elections , and the party won 20 seats fewer than it had possessed at the dissolution ( although 11 independents were later reported to have joined , thereby bringing its total strength to 286 ) . |
| 3 | Like a grow-bag , however , they can not go on producing their rich harvests of vegetable crops such as celery and carrots for ever , since once the peat has all wasted away , poor acid subsoils , especially clays , are often all that remain beneath . |
| 4 | Taff carried on eating his large piece of lamb . |
| 5 | ‘ I must say I 'm rather enjoying our little outing . ’ |
| 6 | BT had higher profits than either , presumably reflecting its still de facto monopoly situation . |
| 7 | They stayed there for a quarter of an hour , the only movement being the driver slowly inching his little finger up so that he could lock the door . |
| 8 | Keep your foot flexed and start slowly circling your right leg , at the same time bringing it up in the air . |
| 9 | George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions . |
| 10 | For several minutes they drove in silence , then Tom began to speak his thoughts aloud , glancing briefly at Belinda every now and then but mostly keeping his narrowed eyes firmly fixed on the road . |
| 11 | After 1918 Gosse worked as a medical referee for the Ministry of Pensions , and later at the Radium Institute , eventually becoming its medical superintendent . |
| 12 | She wrote a highly perceptive appreciation of Burns 's character in the Dumfries Journal ( August 1796 ) and collaborated energetically with Burns 's biographer , James Currie — thereby also effectively protecting her own interests and reputation . |
| 13 | In France , out own man , Bernard Violet , has been successfully co-ordinating our appointed distributors Heuga SARL . |
| 14 | The British Property Federation ( BPF ) has gone as far as not only producing its own system for dealing with projects but , in liaison with the ACA ( Association of Consultant Architects ) , producing its own standard building contract to suit its system . |
| 15 | She was suffering as he must have suffered ; and if he knew her pain might he not come to her , as she had so often come to him , gently reminding her that despair was an unavoidable but essential ordeal , of the quest ? |
| 16 | Egoistic traits may be expected to survive if they benefit also the descendants which inherit them , to be weeded out if they benefit the individual at the expense of its offspring ( for example , cannibalizing its brood , or long outlasting its reproductive powers ) ; altruistic traits will tend to survive if they benefit kin which are also transmitting them ( in particular , the mother 's protection of her young ) , to die out if they give the advantage to strangers which are not . |
| 17 | I mean , you 're only using it one day a week . |
| 18 | One boy had to ‘ solve ’ the problem straight away by suddenly producing his own gun , even though intellectually he recognised that the ‘ rule of the game ’ was that the passengers were unarmed . |
| 19 | Fed up constantly repairing his sole pair of shoes specially built 6 years ago , John despaired of finding someone to make him another pair . |
| 20 | I do welcome those who have travelled from York and Hull , perhaps seeing their new Cathedral for the first time . |
| 21 | John Lawton was master for this voyage , fresh from another ship but prudently bringing his own cook with him : it fell to Robert Titford to be first mate . |
| 22 | Still he said no more , merely eating his own rations then packing up ready to leave . |
| 23 | The criminals now embraced and encouraged their women , many of whom were patiently weeping their daily tearfall . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Lawler will be upset that I 'm only bringing him eight brace , but I did my best , ’ Maggie said as they pulled away . |
| 25 | Another little book , Krek Waiter 's speak Bristle , is written in sounds as they are heard — not as they are spelt ( easily understood when said aloud using your aural memory combined with the sensation and the appearance of speech ) . |
| 26 | She wound her arms around his neck , eagerly accepting his heated kisses until he lifted her on to the bed and came down on top of her , covering her and dominating her . |
| 27 | Fishes ' ’ songs ' , one should note , do not seem to be nearly so complex as those of birds , perhaps reflecting their lower position on the scale of consciousness and intelligence . |
| 28 | Many of his paintings are portraits of young women , perhaps reflecting his own position as an only son with seven sisters . |
| 29 | And , while not necessarily eclipsing their own songs , the rash of covers — chosen for maximum heartbreak potential — offer pointers into their mindset . |
| 30 | He flung off his shirt in delight — obviously enjoying his first goal of the season . |