Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , she overcame her fear — with other schoolchildren she had sometimes ganged up to cry ‘ witch ’ at Kitty , delighted when she ran after them , gleefully scudding away like infant demons scattered by Beelzebub . |
| 2 | The effect of a single cell 's suddenly stepping out of tandem could parallel that of HIV within the human body — an aggressively private agenda that compromises and ultimately destroys the entire host system . |
| 3 | On Thursday we drew the whole thing together ending up with team practice and looking at the videos in the evening . |
| 4 | As we entered the Sound of Islay the gale renewed its fury , whipping the strong tides of the Sound into white water and the picturesque shoreline disappeared into low cloud scud and rain , only appearing intermittently as shadow all the way to Oban . |
| 5 | Everything 's seized up while the ground 's frozen — there wo n't be much happening there till spring now . |
| 6 | We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One . |
| 7 | Beforehand they were tense and quiet , and no doubt very frightened if the truth were known , but on their return , if we saw them at all , they would be relaxed and only looking forward to bacon and eggs in the Mess — and then bed . |
| 8 | VINTAGE car enthusiast Gordon Smith , a commissionaire at Barlaston , is eagerly looking forward to running is 1920 Humber Tourer out on the roads again this spring . |
| 9 | Cos our Lianne said to me on Thursday mother I 'm only going away for week . |
| 10 | He would have to be very careful , only going out after dusk when he could do some jobs for other people in exchange for a little food . |
| 11 | Quickly they finished , and left , severally going back to No. 43 . |
| 12 | Nails slept at the stables almost every night , apparently going home for breakfast . |
| 13 | But if the Franks were the dominant partner it is difficult to explain why so much material should have been channelled towards England with little apparently going back in return . |
| 14 | ‘ I realised if I wanted to get back to where I had been , it was perhaps better going back to North and starting off there again . ’ |
| 15 | It was all getting out of hand . |
| 16 | Where are these men when , as you say , there are men literally getting away with murder ? |
| 17 | Will the Minister take time in the next week , as a matter of urgency , to meet the Israeli ambassador and tell him about the feeling in the country generally that the Israeli Government are literally getting away with murder ? |
| 18 | ‘ I was not only speaking out on behalf of Manchester United but their thousands of fans as well . ’ |
| 19 | We turn up to funerals in everyday clothes , we refuse to let people send flowers so there is no opportunity for a communal expression of feeling , we are reluctant to take more than one day off work on the grounds that we 're better getting on with life as if weeping and mourning had no part in real life . |
| 20 | Of course the Korg A2 is the heart of the system and the real subject of this review , so getting back on track I 'll get into what Korg have managed to put together . |
| 21 | Because Boo is locked away , it makes his character very mysterious and at first it 's hard to know if the rumours spread around about Boo only coming out at night to hunt for his dinner , eating squirrels and peering in through people 's windows are true , but gradually as we read more into the book , we are given clues to suggest that he is not the monster , people make him out to be . |
| 22 | And er , er , an an and as I say I had , like , this was only coming home from school like , you know . |
| 23 | True , Scottish nobles happily accepted bribes from the kings of England and France , as well as the two regents , Arran and Mary of Guise , without necessarily doing much in return . |
| 24 | In Kahlo 's painting , the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street , literally coming down to earth . |
| 25 | President Kaunda and Prime Minister Vorster , suddenly arriving there in person , did all they could to push Smith and the ANC together . |
| 26 | ‘ Pay no attention , ’ Dickinson told the replacements , ‘ he 's only showing off in front of the visitors . ’ |
| 27 | Yet , as much as reversion to primitivism , so settling back into childhood enjoyment and innocence was undesirable to Eliot . |
| 28 | When the spirit flags , the body follows , and Jack Stone was literally draining away with despair and fear . |
| 29 | Swiftly following on from coal there came trouble in the steel industry . |
| 30 | He was only gone a minute , and when he returned , it was with a couple in their fifties who were holding hands as if they were desperately hanging on to reality . |