Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Like to come wiv me next week ? ’ offered Rose , the bus slowly bringing them nearer home with each plodding step . |
| 2 | The UK Environment Secretary , Michael Howard , announced on April 30 that the target for stabilizing carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels had been brought forward from 2005 to 2000 , thereby bringing it into line with the EC position . |
| 3 | Ken Mentle , who often made up club rules as he went along , declared that his was the casting vote and promptly blocked the appointment , incredibly naming himself as manager . |
| 4 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 6 | Mike Benton 's ideas are reminiscent of those of Tony Swain and Gillian Cooper-Driver who proposed that dinosaurs became extinct through their dietary requirements They suggested that the development of alkaloidal synthesis of cyanogenic glycoside precursors in the early angiosperms made them unpalatable to the dinosaurs , effectively starving them into extinction . |
| 7 | Rose shut herself into her office , grimly applying herself to routine . |
| 8 | Finally Ayatollah Khomeini had reclaimed his mantle as the most radical of the Imams by proclaiming a fatwa against Rushdie in February 1989 , effectively condemning him to death . |
| 9 | Although all sets and costumes were designed in colour , a lot of ingenuity needed to be applied to make the sets visually more interesting to the viewers ; compensating them for only seeing everything in monochrome and through a slightly muzzy 405 line picture . |
| 10 | After conferring , the two signalmen decided to try and apprehend the person concerned , and after making sure that the control had been told of the situation and the boxes were safe to leave they walked towards each other , approaching the trespasser from opposite directions , so keeping him in view all the time and affording him little chance of escape . |
| 11 | It is hard to know now whether Eden was really being serious , or merely protecting himself for posterity . |
| 12 | The traffic queue into London stretched back miles , for a sewer had collapsed in the centre of Wandsworth and gangs of workmen were tearing up the shattered road , apparently rebuilding it from scratch . |
| 13 | Well I think , I think that the difference is that if you 're , they were obviously establishing themselves from seed and they picked the right spot and they got themselves anchored . |
| 14 | ‘ Ah , but that was when I was only pumping you for information , not giving it to you . |
| 15 | The elder was behaving as if parties of white women were constantly presenting him with gunpowder . |
| 16 | Er basically stuffing yourself to excess for two weeks . |
| 17 | Another suggestion one tends to hear is that animals should live on our farms but not be killed , only providing us with milk , wool and manure . |
| 18 | In the aquarium it will thrive on a gravel or sand medium alone containing plenty of plant detritus . |
| 19 | There was a cousin Dilwyn from whom he became inseparable ( they even shared a pair of roller skates ) and to whom he gave the greatest tribute of affection by constantly getting him into trouble . |
| 20 | The marking response can play a vital part in promoting this linguistic growth through establishing a dialogue , and not merely concerning itself with surface features of the writing , or the routine correction of technical errors . |
| 21 | For instance , a canned food processor would not normally consider selling through mail order unless the company was providing a very specialist type of food or perhaps providing it as part of a hamper pack . |
| 22 | Fire horror : A woman has died from burns after apparently dousing herself with petrol and setting it alight at an address in Bell Street , Hindley , near Wigan . |
| 23 | Another technique involves placing an elastic band on your wrist and gently twanging it in response to worrying irrational thoughts . |
| 24 | But taking our morality from the Bible does not necessarily mean merely taking it on trust and authority , and abandoning all thought of moral knowledge . |
| 25 | The mortgage company had acted with forbearance , only taking them to court as a last resort . |
| 26 | Sort out your material once you have amassed a reasonable collection , perhaps grading everything by size and colour , and separating the leaves from the flowers . |
| 27 | So putting them in balance , I still want to hope that the light will overcome the darkness . " |
| 28 | Claudia battled with the urge to crown him with the coffee , only restraining herself by thinking of her plans . |
| 29 | He wanted it to be a surprise for you , and I 'm only telling you in advance in case — in case you should think it might have been me . " |
| 30 | ‘ Our policy has always been to look after our customers , not alone supplying them with greeting cards , but also providing them with the back-up services , such as merchandising , advertising material and general advice on how to lay out an effective display , ’ he added . |