Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the months preceding the launching I had paid numerous visits to Brooke Marine yard , either calling there in Venturous with the training crews , or latterly driving down from my home in Felixstowe , conveniently situated a mere forty miles up the coast . |
| 2 | Consider for a moment the bustle of the scene a hundred years ago , with horse-drawn barges and occasional steam tugs nearing the end of their journeys or perhaps setting out on the return trip towards the sea . |
| 3 | Leith felt sick to her stomach when Mr Ardis , either not believing that his son had just pounced unencouraged on her , or perhaps covering up for his son 's weaknesses , told her that a month 's severance pay would be sent to her , and dismissed her on the spot . |
| 4 | Erm , I 'm slightly more concerned though about security in this building and in some of our other main buildings and it brought it home very starkly to me and I 'm sure to all members of the board when we arrived at our meeting a few weeks ago and spent er over two hours standing , we did n't stay out , more or less standing out in the street and . |
| 5 | Whether they 're the citizens ' charter , whether they are response to people from the press or from the public or constantly ringing in to the switchboard , or whether it 's by all the other ways in which we disseminate information . |
| 6 | Guilt , or constantly thinking back to past errors , only has any value if you are able to learn from it and to make a firm decision to avoid those errors in the future . |
| 7 | Going for a walk , arranging to meet a friend , or just getting on with some DIY , hobby , or relaxation exercises are all likely to occupy the mind more effectively . |
| 8 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |
| 9 | So you would feel equally at home there with a group of friends on a night out or just popping in for a quiet drink and a chat . |
| 10 | Just sitting and looking into space , or just carrying about on their own . |
| 11 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 12 | What do you hope you can do in terms of providing or possibly squeezing out at the eleventh hour , the cash that you need from the Oxfordshire Regional Health Authority , to try and stop er routine patients not being treated from Monday ? |
| 13 | He had been on board the Santa Maria some two hours or more working out with the Argentine naval lieutenant and the tug 's engineers just what was required to get the tow safely down the short cut into the Beagle Channel and thence to Ushuaia . |
| 14 | Many of those trainees go to smaller firms , perhaps taking over positions of responsibility or even taking over from the owners when they die and thus continuing the industry 's good work . |
| 15 | Last night , Platt said : ‘ It could go at any time , walking across the training ground or even sitting down to lunch . |
| 16 | So many of us are accustomed to eating in front of the television , or at a desk or even rushing about in the morning clutching a briefcase in one hand and a piece of toast in the other . |
| 17 | Her the narrow lanes are most pleasant for cycling , horseriding or even driving out in a pony trap for there is so little traffic and so much nature to be observed . |
| 18 | Breach of contract includes : non-supplying of goods ( maybe due to supplier liquidation/bankruptcy or simply running off with your money ) ; supplying faulty goods ; or supplying goods different from those requested or ordered . |
| 19 | Whether you 're working , travelling or simply rushing around at home you 'll find Farley 's Rusks are versatile , easy to use and light to carry . |
| 20 | Erm er , my name 's , an ordinary shareholder for long-standing erm , it would be very interesting , I do n't know whether this is possible now or maybe following on from what the speaker has said , if we had some idea of the American system which is er , I only know very little about it er I , just how that works because we have presidents and vice presidents and , er I think it work rather differently . |
| 21 | No comment is worth making on this bizarre suggestion , except perhaps pointing out to Professor Drife that a beard is n't precisely the right analogy . |
| 22 | Did you stop to think that there is more than enough going on in Cambodia to make people reflect pretty carefully about participating in the election at all — and that the fact that 4.7m of them registered ( for which they received nothing whatsoever in material terms ) might just suggest that they really would like to exercise the vote ? |
| 23 | ‘ They 're too busy analysing things here , rather than just getting on with it , ’ says drummer Craig Gill , considering America . |
| 24 | There is a lot more to being a national team member , however , than just sliding around on skis . |
| 25 | The costs they came up with included satisfaction ( other than simply getting by without trouble ) ; real communication with colleagues ; idealism ; and self-respect ( can you really like yourself ? ) . |
| 26 | Given the general distrust of authority amongst the user population and the problems encountered in obtaining treatment and successfully coming off in the community , there is obviously a need for a service which is seen by users to be impartial . |
| 27 | The shot we require is of an American Trident missile being launched from a submarine and eventually going out of control . |
| 28 | Andy is filling the single champagne glass at the apex of the pyramid with champagne ; it is overflowing , filling the three glasses beneath it ; they in turn are overflowing , filling the glasses on the level beneath them , which are also full and so spilling over to the level underneath , and so on and so on down almost to the bottom ; Andy is on his eighth magnum . |
| 29 | there and perhaps coming on to the Residents ' Association point that made in their proof , that our forecasts actually show that on balance , er er there would be an increase in flow in fact on the on that route as it approaches the A sixty one . |
| 30 | There was still enough money and enough going on for a ‘ hot ’ property like Nicholson to walk in and begin making fortunes immediately . |