Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the locals did not always tolerate government by monks — perhaps suspecting what in this century has been established as a fact , that the abbey 's legal title to the authority it claimed was a tenth-century forgery . |
| 2 | She walked on and on , imagining herself utterly alone wearing nothing at all . |
| 3 | Suddenly finding herself in this strange dark place she naturally tried to retreat from it and all the farmer did was guide her . |
| 4 | Another popular cheat is to quote last year 's rates , only raising them to this year 's the day after the form is posted to us . |
| 5 | Britain was soon devoting something like half its national product to the war , a massive shift of resources , unthinkable in peacetime . |
| 6 | ‘ Michelet has strong emotions , and he smears what he feels on to paper without caring in the least how he does it , and without giving the slightest thought to technique or conventional forms — just shaping it into any form that can be understood by those who want to understand it . ’ |
| 7 | I hope that Marjorie is not just amusing herself with these children . |
| 8 | It was as if he were touching her , physically caressing her with that dark , gold-flecked gaze . |
| 9 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 10 | Giant trees were soon surrounding him on all sides and their branches made an almost solid roof high above his head , blotting out the sky . |
| 11 | Months later he was to admit : ‘ Do n't you realize , Jim , I was just egging you on all the time ? |
| 12 | This ‘ sane insanity ’ through which one enters into someone 's personality — intentionally splitting oneself into both searching , inventing subject and the object of the search — is posed as the very condition of narration . |
| 13 | The third characteristic envisaged for the polytechnics , namely that they should have an ‘ applied philosophy ’ , means that their courses should have a vocational orientation and be designed with specific career outlets in mind , thus distinguishing them from many university courses which are sometimes described as ‘ pure ’ . |
| 14 | He was normally shown , holding a double axe and thunderbolt , standing on a bull , thus linking him with this important fertility image . |
| 15 | It goes without saying that in order to use a device for improvising ( such as scales , arpeggios , licks etc. ) one has to develop the particular device to such a level of fluency that physically playing it in any key or position has become almost instinctive , or second nature . |
| 16 | It is so I 'm just putting it in half now . |
| 17 | ‘ I was just telling you about this girl and what her mother said on the night before she got married to the sailor . ’ |
| 18 | We are aware that serial killers and the like are merely expressing themselves , working out their various hang-ups and generally freeing themselves from those inhibitions which might , if suppressed , make them less complete human beings . |
| 19 | Virtually the whole process has been controlled by Personnel staff thus freeing us from many of the conventional DP constraints . |
| 20 | By 1960 , the American space programme had launched a number of ‘ Mercury ’ spacecraft , and the first of their manned spacecrafts was launched in the early part of 1961 , once again with the Russians just beating them to that objective . |
| 21 | Now more people have a stake , with some owning far more than others and most owning none at all . |
| 22 | Gee Armytage was yesterday bracing herself for another spell on the sidelines as she recovers from a back injury sustained in the Coral Welsh National . |
| 23 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 24 | Or perchance ending it with that old adage , ‘ Keep up the good work ’ ? |
| 25 | Flares are n't news in Dublin they 're still wearing them from that first time round . |
| 26 | cost you far more getting it like that than saying we 'll support you |
| 27 | Kraal could hardly believe his eyes as the Keeper carried Minch into the cage , and just stared in amazement , for once saying nothing at all . |
| 28 | 4 ) ‘ My daughter met any other child at playgroup with a resounding thump if they touched ‘ her toy ’ ( because I think her older brother was still treating her to this type of jealousy at home ) . |
| 29 | Well I think it 's only if you want to do er you know like doing it for some , something or other is n't it ? |
| 30 | At breakfast she would be persistently bright and chirpy , deliberately steeling herself against all the things that Marie did that irritated her . |