Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked on and on , imagining herself utterly alone wearing nothing at all . |
| 2 | Arrau Philips is indomitable , searching , eloquent , if perhaps lacking something in sheer abandonment . |
| 3 | Britain was soon devoting something like half its national product to the war , a massive shift of resources , unthinkable in peacetime . |
| 4 | Now more people have a stake , with some owning far more than others and most owning none at all . |
| 5 | That 's about a busful , but the chances of ever getting everyone in one bus to a Leeds game are virtually nil — unless the Travel Club starts all-in deals via New Zealand , Australia , Canada , the USA , Israel , Sweden , Norway , Denmark , Germany , Dublin , Liverpool , Congleton , York and Bradford . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She was not a greatly intelligent woman , being one of those persons who always seem busy without ever achieving anything in particular , and it never failed to amaze her that her son could remember what he read when she had difficulty remembering the day of the week . |
| 8 | Sort of a second home to The Sawdoctors , who have just completed a Christmas single there and are also demoing lots of new songs . |
| 9 | Ehlen also claiming one at this time , while Fw.Kestel had opened the scoring with one at 1305 . |
| 10 | so I 'll be getting that phone bill within the next fortnight , right , but bear in mind June June and December we were n't really doing anything for three weeks |
| 11 | Gordon eats a pub lunch , meticulously coating everything in brown sauce , salt , pepper , vinegar and lemon juice to the amusement of all . |
| 12 | Without doing anything at all he could make things happen for which he must be punished with slaps , missed meals or verbal assaults that left him trembling and incoherent . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ One day I was standing here doing nothing in particular and I thought I could write a book about all that happens . |
| 14 | I was never aware of consciously emulating anyone in particular at any point in my career . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I was rather hoping something like this would happen , actually . |
| 16 | Infact it is alot easier doing something like this than going into the ring because you see all their fresh faces and all they care about is having their quetions answered . |
| 17 | But the Burgermeister , usually so jovial and noisy , had proved to be exceedingly sound , never saying anything at all at the rehearsal other than to praise the faint-hearted at the very end . |
| 18 | These understandable human reactions have to be channelled against the waffler , and the apple polisher : the man or woman who by verbal skills seeks to evade taking a position , or even in some cases actually saying anything at all . |
| 19 | So they 're actually doing something about this looks almost as if they 're putting steps in there . |
| 20 | In ( 145 ) and ( 146 ) , the subject of cause is clearly a condition , and the to infinitive evokes its consequence : the causal agent is not conceived as actually doing anything in either of these sentences but merely as having been the condition giving rise to a new state of affairs . |
| 21 | To make matters worse , the Czech-Slovak clearing system has also all but ground to a halt and simple financial transactions between companies in the two the states are currently taking one to two months to complete , according to local businessmen . |