Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good working relationship also enhances an officer 's intelligence system , more effectively bringing to his attention knowledge of pollutions for which the discharger or his neighbours may be responsible . |
| 2 | That was where Luch silently led Marion Maclean , slowly recovering from her shock during the four-mile walk . |
| 3 | And she went forward as if some irresistible force , slowly gathering behind her back , had suddenly erupted and hurled her against him . |
| 4 | In response to the austerity measures introduced after the OPEC ban , including a three-day working week , they struck against the Conservative government of Edward Heath in 1975 , eventually contributing to its defeat . |
| 5 | The tall , lanky merchant was nervous and ill at ease , his hand constantly fluttering to his mouth or patting his greasy hair . |
| 6 | The work of different mosaicists might be visible here , so hinting at their number and therefore the probable diversity of subsequent developments . |
| 7 | She was quite uncritical of the sad , grand dress ; she understood only the pale , still doubtful , beauty , so wrong for its present period , so touching in its failure to be recognized or to please . |
| 8 | It 's not all going according to plan , however , and most days they wind up literally singing for their supper . |
| 9 | Rather than fall , she clung to my arm — a gesture so trusting in its way as to melt the remains of my anger . |
| 10 | He was in a curiously elegiac mood , moving soft on silken feet in deference to the sadness in the place , now and then touching a tree or a still-surviving piece of stone in a placating greeting , apparently apologising for his presence . |
| 11 | During employment the employee may damage his employer 's business in the following ways : ( a ) working for a competitor during his hours of employment ; ( b ) working for a competitor in his spare time ; ( c ) making preparations in order to compete with his employer after he has left ; ( d ) disclosing or using the employer 's business secrets ; or ( e ) failing to disclose information which may be of use to his employer and in some instances personally profiting from its use . |
| 12 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |
| 13 | The match was a hard-fought contest and after much cheating on their part , the prisoners ran out 3–0 victors with a doubtful hat-trick by Rudolph Hess . |
| 14 | " Regarde , Joseph , " said the French boy suddenly reining in his pony beside him and pointing to the far edge of the plain that they were crossing . |
| 15 | She was awoken , what seemed only minutes later , by a heavy weight suddenly landing on her chest . |
| 16 | He was constantly interfering in her life , lecturing her , ordering her about . |
| 17 | If you trust somebody okay you 're quite open to them , they 're quite open to you if you co-operate you 're flexible , you 're being flexible and you like to work together and what happens is is if you 've got low trust and low co-operation with somebody well what you 've got is really everybody both people or everybody involved being defensive constantly being def defensive , if you do n't trust somebody and you know you 're not co-operative you 're constantly looking over your back , what are they doing are they doing that 's gon na mess something up you know what are they trying to do now . |
| 18 | If you 've got a question , shout , shout out to start you on and that start up encourages cos it so often happens yeah bop bop bop bop bop and somebody is still basically looking for their rucksack while all the rest are up the , half way up the mountain . |
| 19 | He was gloomily looking at his registration book on Tuesday morning . |
| 20 | ‘ Forgive us , Mistress Tolonen , ’ one of them said , recognising her , ‘ but we are only acting on our master 's orders . ’ |
| 21 | You 're only looking at her body ! |
| 22 | I 'm really only looking for my place on the bandwagon . ’ |
| 23 | stoutly denied by Herr Nordern , strange gluts of — equally stoutly defended by him , memorable meals of the past , the coming party , and , although Omi barely spoke a word , sitting silently , merely picking at her meal , Karl kept up a lively alert manner which belied his years . |
| 24 | Choose your type of moisturiser , not only according to your skin type , but also in relation to the climate . |
| 25 | Anyway , I 'm only passing on her message . |
| 26 | That we may work together according to your will so that you may work for good in us . |
| 27 | This is an imposing structure , somewhat resembling in its frontage on two streets the keep of a Norman castle . |
| 28 | She 's gently pulling on my prick . |
| 29 | And then he 's got he 's got a beard , except it 's not very long going behind his jawline like Captain Ahab . |
| 30 | they were only going on their reputation |