Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN : The new Commons stage will be graced by the actress , Miss Glenda Jackson , 55 , who produced sufficiently convincing a performance in her debut as an active Labour politician to stir Hampstead and Highgate . |
| 2 | If anything , he was a little nervous about his ability to sustain so demanding a role for fifty-two weeks . |
| 3 | The experiment involved secretly filming a group of children , ranged in age groups of ten to thirteen , watching a never-before-seen episode of a science fiction serial . |
| 4 | In 1962 he was driving home following a drinking session to ease the tensions of recording a TV play , Hedda Gabler , when he crashed into some roadworks . |
| 5 | If each firm believes the other 's threat to minimax forever following a defection , its best response is not to defect . |
| 6 | The procedure seems to work well providing a balance between finality of decision making and the interests of justice in allowing the re-opening of certain decisions . |
| 7 | Gastric secretions were then aspirated continuously using a suction pump , with suction applied for 50 out of each 60 seconds and secretions collected in 15 minute aliquots . |
| 8 | These included the famous Rob Lowe video ( ‘ When the light 's poor , you ca n't see the million dollar dick ! ’ ) and a film of the Go-Gos drunkenly deriding a groupie jerking off backstage ( ‘ Microphone placement is very important . |
| 9 | It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody . |
| 10 | These points are similar to points 2 and 3 ante but vary slightly in the content of the call , e.g. for point 4 examples would include falsely telling a woman her husband was dead or that he is having an affair . |
| 11 | Although it hardly seemed fair racing a man at least 15 years our senior , who could resist going just a little faster every time we saw his face contorted with exertion , glaring up at us like Charles Laughton in Mutiny On The Bounty ? |
| 12 | Until now the work has had to be done manually using a form of surgical cement . |
| 13 | Erm , and in the faith and life department of URC we 'd better preparing a pack on the children rights . |
| 14 | Within the Garden , most machines will soon be connected together using a Local Area Network ( LAN ) , to share software , data , and resources such as printers and plotters . |
| 15 | We 'd almost do better cadging a lift off a couple of tortoises . ’ |
| 16 | Popov came away waving a cheque from Mr Maxwell for £50,000 to buy medicines for sick Bulgarian children . |
| 17 | This can be done easily using a scalpel blade , an old fashioned razor blade or a small sharp knife which is used solely for this purpose . |
| 18 | He recalled once buying a foal and taking it home on the bus ! |
| 19 | Though he recalled once scoring a hat-trick for Toronto Blizzard , Nicholl 's two goals against Dunfermline marked the first time in his senior career that the Irishman had notched a double in top-class football . |
| 20 | She was telling them a story , and they were sitting on either side of her on the sofa with their mouths hanging slightly open , Gawain meditatively fingering a lock of her long , dark hair , Damian staring at her and absently scratching his balls . |
| 21 | Like most other immigrants , Rita came here following a dream and it 's a dream she does n't want to give up . |
| 22 | Like a camera my restless mind followed the rabid mongrels of Puno as they roamed down the narrow streets , through the tight patchwork of market stalls , over the rubble-lined railway track , to fight at last over a pair of cow 's horns I had seen earlier topping a pile of refuse . |
| 23 | Then she rode home feeling a bit ashamed that she had n't been as brave as she felt sure a proper Brownie ought to have been in face of danger . |
| 24 | On the proximal arm segment the arm spines almost meet midventrally forming a fan . |
| 25 | The arms : ( a ) the form of the tentacle pore ; ( b ) the number and shape of the arm spines , the degree of rugosity ; ( c ) the number and shape of the tentacle scales ; ( d ) whether the arm spines of the proximal joints meet midradially forming a fan when viewed transversely ; ( e ) often in outline the arms amy appear to be constricted between the rows of arm spines usually because the articulation areas are elevated . |
| 26 | The spines on proximal segments nearly meet midradially forming a fan . |
| 27 | The latter 's daughter , Lady Joan , is certainly interested in ‘ the Condition of England Question ’ , and his guests include the principled , High-Church , and well-born clergyman , St Lys , who retorts to Lord Mamey that war on the cottage does not at first seem so startling a cry as war on the castle . |
| 28 | I 'm sitting pretty in a nice house with a successful businessman and you 're left slaving away teaching a lot of nasty little children the ABC . ’ |
| 29 | He recalls once telling a group of students to clear their minds and observe what was going on in the room . |
| 30 | I ca n't remember ever bolting a weasel from a rabbit warren . |