Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a series of colours that took my fancy were thinned down with water and sprayed , or rather spattered using a mouth diffuser , over the colours I have previously applied . |
| 2 | After the first eight days of action — during which 19 of his 31 officers were killed and seven wounded , and the battalion was reduced to 40 per cent of its original strength — he himself was badly wounded leading a counter-attack . |
| 3 | LC were enriched from BALB/c TE-EC ( ref. 22 ) , stained with M5/114.15.12 ( anti-I-A d and anti-I-E d , ATCC ) and FITC-goat ( Fab' ) 2 anti-rat IgG ( TAGO ) and additionally purified using a BDIS Facstar Plus flow cytometer . |
| 4 | I did n't personally think having a piano on the back of a truck was much use either , but it looked good and gave the band somewhere to balance their beer cans . |
| 5 | Now obviously nobody would be daft enough to try running a car without oil , although some of the garages doing their P D I 's , pre-delivery inspections , can cause that sort of problem . |
| 6 | We would expect handling a horse when it is young to affect its friendliness towards people , but we would not necessarily expect handling a horse when it is young to affect its intelligence . |
| 7 | The grant explicitly excluded the royal forest of Inglewood , but this was probably only to avoid setting a precedent for future sheriffs . |
| 8 | The grant explicitly excluded the royal forest of Inglewood , but this was probably only to avoid setting a precedent for future sheriffs . |
| 9 | AN ULSTER teenager was in a spin last week after prematurely celebrating winning a brand new car in a prize draw at a local disco . |
| 10 | The provision relates , however , only to the beginning of development and this apparently includes digging a trench or putting a peg in the ground . |
| 11 | They obviously enjoyed playing a game with each other . |
| 12 | She glanced at Sophie maliciously , ‘ I do n't suppose you are busy enough to justify employing a nurse , are you ? ’ |
| 13 | This is the only occasion when I personally remember seeing a wicketkeeper coming on to bowl and it may be the earliest such occasion in a first-class game . |
| 14 | By now you will have a good picture of the basic background , and armed with this knowledge you should feel confident enough to contemplate buying a rug . |
| 15 | He 'd be six now , old enough to start hitting a ball around . |
| 16 | And he said , I suddenly felt so ill , you know , and I was shaking , and , and , and , and , and obviously started running a temperature and , and my , my , er and , and shivering and whatever . |
| 17 | The disk is round , up to 8 mm in diameter , covered with glassy spinelets , which are basically elongated trifids often elaborated with secondary points , sometimes one of the points may be greatly enlarged resembling a rod . |
| 18 | On the facts the accused was not guilty if he intended merely to delay paying a hotel bill of £1,286 . |
| 19 | He dozed but woke with a start , dreaming that the Hell-hounds he had just visited were snuffling at the door , but it was only Ranulf dragging a stool across the dusty rushes . |
| 20 | Afterwards Leconte , who only resumed training a week ago after injuring himself in the Paris Open , admitted he was surprised at the way Ferreira had fallen to pieces . |
| 21 | Not only does seeing a chair as a three-dimensional object have this character , but so does seeing one line as longer in the Mulier-Lyer illusion ( in which two lines of equal length look unequal when differently slanting lines are drawn at the tips ) despite our knowing that the two lines are really the same length . |
| 22 | So avoid taking a vacation soon after you have acquired a puppy , especially if it means that you will need to place it in kennels . |
| 23 | " I suppose we 'd better start having a look along the banks soon , although I must say I 'm in no particular hurry . |
| 24 | The subsequent ‘ sale ’ was apparently transacted using a transparency , which was not provided by Feigen 's gallery , and Hildenbrand 's ability actually to get hold of the painting later was , according to Feigen , ‘ something of a fluke . ’ |
| 25 | In the right circumstances , horses can also learn affection for a person — which not only makes training a horse so much easier , but makes riding and working the horse such a pleasure . |
| 26 | The logs in the basket were rarely burned ; he was suspicious of comfort , and was never in the Palace long enough to make lighting a fire worthwhile . |
| 27 | Or if someone says What are you doing ? we can just answer Eating a mango instead of I am eating a mango because we know that I am is understood and does not have to be said . |
| 28 | It was learnt yesterday county councillors have already considered ending a schools cleaning contract awarded to a private firm hired to look after Middlesbrough schools after the it notched up 22 default notices between last August and May 1 . |
| 29 | He was pleased with this image and momentarily considered making a poem out of it . |
| 30 | Just imagine having a mummy who 'd been a Brownie Guider but who would n't let you be a Brownie ! |