Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 2 | Countless au pairs fled sobbing back to Bilbao after he swooped on their smalls yelling , ‘ Just as I thought ! |
| 3 | Ranulf and Maltote following suit just as the two crossbow quarrels came whirring out of the darkness , skimming the tops of their heads . |
| 4 | The words came mumbling up from beneath the bent head . |
| 5 | Heads began popping out of windows . |
| 6 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 7 | Music began with the beating of a tabor and the whistle of pipes , and then the servers began trooping in in their dozens with great platters of heaped food and jugs of ale . |
| 8 | Already however , the Luftwaffe had been reduced in strength in Sicily as units began moving over to Libya to support the new German Afrika Korps , which was being assembled in the Tripoli area . |
| 9 | First , the boards and the Committee for Science and Technology had the problem of deciding ‘ how far a subject was ‘ degree worthy ’ , because new subjects started springing up like grass in a corn field ’ : |
| 10 | When the disappointed Cov fans started sneaking out before the end , the stand we were in seemed to have just as many Leeds as Cov fans in it . |
| 11 | I sat in an armchair with a copy of Punch and pretended to read it , but my eyes kept going back to those lips and that tiny corner of pink tongue and I was in a turmoil . |
| 12 | Poppy 's words keep coming back to me : " I saw your little friend as I came here … |
| 13 | In any case , the guards kept popping in around news time . |
| 14 | Saettler traces programmed learning back to Montessori , but for ordinary purposes it is to B. F. Skinner that we must turn for the initiation of the programmed learning movement as such . |
| 15 | Coaches and four and post chaises went thundering by in a lather of horses , their occupants cheering and whooping as each milestone was passed . |
| 16 | Blue magnesium flares went spiralling up into the chilly night . |
| 17 | Chris said , she said well she didnae mind going down for it . |
| 18 | The BFI has long been overdue a public trial and major clear-out with several pretentious posteriors needing kicking out of its West End headquarters . |
| 19 | Before the little vole could answer , four mallard ducks came sliding in across the water . |
| 20 | Visitors caught lighting up in the space age reception area at ITN 's spanking new London HQ are told in no uncertain terms that smoking is NOT allowed . |
| 21 | All media , apart from government-controlled radio and television , have been totally silenced , and Haïtians caught tuning in to Voice of America broadcasts are arrested and beaten . |
| 22 | In contrast , at times Durie looked ready to scream , especially when the errors started creeping in during the second set of her 6-2 , 7-6 win over the promising Yayuk Basuki . |
| 23 | The trite , emotive phrases kept going round in her head like a music-hall ditty . |
| 24 | The administration therefore got involved with Iran again not out of conviction , but with a strong prod from Israel , whose emissaries kept turning up in London and Washington with their slightly unnerving proposals for rapprochement . |
| 25 | What , what we will prove to ourselves if we want to is it does n't matter where you work , the amount of time that a salesmen spends driving about in his car is almost exactly the same regardless of where he works . |
| 26 | Many headhunters see setting up on their own as an ultimate ambition , despite the risks of flying from the safe nest of a large firm with many clients and a high level of repeat business . |
| 27 | one , as soon as you get , well you 've got ta work out what your speed is then , break , break your speed down to your stopping distance , say it 's thirty , you wannae stop slowing down at forty five feet right , that 's what you have to know erm |
| 28 | And the horsemen came riding down with their horned helmets and their lances and William was running , screaming , towards the village , but it was always too far away . |
| 29 | Without a specific perpetuity period of at least the length of the term ( if the term exceeds 21 years ) plus a few additional years to cover holding over under the 1954 Act , there would be no right to use pipes placed under the premises during the 23rd year of the term . |
| 30 | And he takes this to show that it is impossible for good empiricists to avoid going along with him . |