Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The North will not get that investment if certain influential people keeping banging on about how wonderful things are . |
| 2 | And , before your mind starts wandering off into even more lurid byways , she 's extremely happily married , with three grown-up children . |
| 3 | the task is complex and needs breaking down into more manageable parts that use a wide range of skills |
| 4 | The normal daily routine involved getting up at around 6am and stopping for a long lunch at midday in order to avoid the most intense heat . |
| 5 | So when this oil starts dripping out of here |
| 6 | He 'd be expecting her to come dragging in at least ten minutes late , with a scowl on her face , unwilling and reluctant . |
| 7 | By further concentration , and by various methods of isolating the cooled , concentrated cell sap from contact with nucleators , some plants can withstand supercooling in at least some of their tissues to temperatures as low as -55°C . |
| 8 | Grey breath in the air , snowmen on the heath , pub bores droning on about how typical it is that a few inches of snow throws the whole country into chaos when the Swiss handle metres of the stuff without missing a beat . |
| 9 | " And stop going on about how wonderful you are . |
| 10 | Then one day Mark was lumbering up Parliament Hill , and Babur came running up from behind . |
| 11 | They knew I was catching the plane ; they came running in from all over the place with their big zoom lenses and what they want is : the butterfly 's wings are broken , so let's get a picture of her face . |
| 12 | Well the , the first ones that we made going down from here , the car 's making a racket , the stereo 's like on full blast you ca n't hear anything we 're saying at all . |
| 13 | but I do n't think Telecom 's up to dating things , Telecom keeps rabbitting on about how clever they are at doing this |
| 14 | We started walking off , Cal saying , ‘ Your folks are beside themselves , they ca n't stop going on about how desperate they are , your mum 's sure your dad 's going to have a … ’ |
| 15 | He feels he has done his share of slogging through atrocious weather and will not miss getting up at 4.30am . |
| 16 | ‘ I like staying up until 3am or 4am in the morning but I also get up early . |
| 17 | Well it have to pop out but it keeps popping back in again that 's all that is |
| 18 | And er so times were still hard , it was n't until they , let's say until thirty ei thirty eight , that the depression finished in the coal field , when they started building up from then . |
| 19 | They still use the horse and dray , which he remembers going out on when he was a boy . |
| 20 | ‘ I had no idea what the response would be , but all of a sudden all this equipment started coming in from all over the world . |
| 21 | But first there was time when reading a soccer report in a Sunday newspaper meant catching up on how many people were stabbed and how many pitches were invaded . |
| 22 | Bez got all upset and started muttering and picking at his scabs and Shaun Ryder kept going on about how it was Bez did n't like to see men cows doing it and he was n't going to apologies for it . |
| 23 | But then he kept going on about how brilliant your party was gon na be and everything and I 'm sat there thinking let's face it , if I come on between you know , because like , it would have been alright cos I 'd be finished like , today or tomorrow and then it would have been like nice and ready for the party ! |
| 24 | Small inanimate objects ready to take the brunt of your tensions and frustrations , and still keep coming back for more ! |
| 25 | But the thing I keep coming back to when I look at the figures is that Northallerton is only a third bigger than Selby . |
| 26 | " Do n't go running off for long . |
| 27 | Intel told it that running a current SCO binary on Pentium would win it only twice the performance of SCO Unix on the 80486 , compared with a fourfold increase it could expect with code recompiled for Pentium , although it would mean giving up on backwards compatibility . |
| 28 | It is easy to sympathise with his parents as these whirlpools of feeling kept arising out of nowhere . |
| 29 | My grandma kept saying horrible things about my mother and my father kept rambling on about how much he missed her . |
| 30 | Nick was feeling cramped and claustrophobic , and kept peeking out from below the blanket until dragged back down by Linda . |