Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With her heart thudding so loudly that she felt sure he must feel it through her ribcage , she took another gulp of tea and waited , knowing he must speak , explain somehow what it was that had suddenly flared between them again . |
| 2 | Garbage was piled high in corners , and Maggie watched Sarah stepping carefully so as not to tread in the filth . |
| 3 | She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field . |
| 4 | I mean the front room 's a a long , you ca n't put your furniture how you really want it you see cos you 've got a bit sticking out there and then you 've got this big sticking out here . |
| 5 | Izzie left them deep in animated conversation — the monk laughing out loud as he realized he was being lured into an acting profession — and went inside the house to find Gabriel . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , as Table 4.6 shows there were no strong differences , and certainly none showing action sample clients faring significantly better than control samples . |
| 7 | A Section was camped in a knoll at the end of a spur near Nasuta and they built an observation point which was approached by a crawl through thickets before climbing a tree to a branch chair — the comfort of its armrests had more to do with the watcher keeping absolutely still than with his ease . |
| 8 | If you keep your eyes looking straight ahead and turn your body , is your left arm still perpendicular to your line of sight ? |
| 9 | Mr Gore stood in the dock looking straight ahead as the charges were read to him . |
| 10 | In addition there are a number of banned opposition parties operating either underground or in exile . |
| 11 | We saw on Monday , factory gate prices going up less than people expected , today , prices in the shops going up less than people expected . |
| 12 | The officer said Alison had not mentioned a car pulling up alongside or near them in her statement to the police . |
| 13 | FitzAlan 's gaze immediately flashed to her mouth , his eyes darkening so abruptly that Isabel 's knees went weak . |
| 14 | ‘ This is intrusive , see , there 's the fault going up there and squirts of lava coming down . ’ |
| 15 | Facing him , she wasted no time , the words pouring forth just as he drew a reluctant breath before speech . |
| 16 | Police blamed the crash on drivers going too fast and too close in freezing fog . |
| 17 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 18 | There are steps leading down so that you can stand up to about chest-level in water , and there are radiators at the sides of the bath to heat the water to a pleasant temperature . |
| 19 | The Abyssinians could claim an uninterrupted succession going back more than two thousand years ; in Africa , only Egypt had a more ancient civilization . |
| 20 | No , it was n't this that got on his nerves , but the monotony of his surrounding , the long , long road through the camp , the huts going off here and there , the airfield dotted with little planes , looking like toys , the new hall that was used for entertainments , pictures and the church services , standing out like a sore thumb . |
| 21 | Wiwaxia looks like a small Belgian chocolate covered in scales , with some bigger spikes pointing out here and there . |
| 22 | Conversely , the statutes may provide that a government agency or a financial institution holding not less than 30 per cent of the registered capital may exercise voting rights of 51 per cent of the shareholders . |
| 23 | For example , one of their star turns , David Swift , whose appearance in the first programme of the series staring out at the world through bright blue eyes beneath a battered trilby marked him out as a natural , recalls going to dance halls in the 1950s in search of girls : ‘ I mean there were plenty of songs coming out then where they say , Look at the way she walks . |
| 24 | At the Queen Street entrance she caught a glimpse of a red-clad figure running as fast as her legs would carry her to keep up with the woman who was taking her away . |
| 25 | Well if there is the south coast along here and Devo C Cornwall is there and Devon is here and you get the w the Bristol Channel going up here and then you c the coast coming down here and there 's Wales is here right ? |
| 26 | Practice yelling as loud as you can in a big , deep voice by taking a deep breath and letting the yell come from your stomach , not from your throat . |
| 27 | Er Good er concludes that er stock lending is er no different from other aspects of er the market in general er as I understand it , stock lending as far as pension funds concerned , usually works with pension fund has this collection of stocks and shares . |
| 28 | ‘ We are talking about a minority of drivers behaving very foolishly and we have hardly made any impact on those people . ’ |
| 29 | Some vegetables , like cucumber , radishes and lettuce , are mainly water with the occasional vitamin floating around here and there . |
| 30 | Just hens laying here there and everywhere . |