Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently ruling out any form of legislative veto for minority groups ( a point on which the government side had long insisted ) , the document was nevertheless seen as containing a notable concession in its acceptance of a bicameral parliamentary system . |
| 2 | And the book is pushing back and the pen pushing on each other , so pushing out that way . |
| 3 | She took the kitten in its little cardboard box to the bedroom and was constantly getting up all night , peering at the tiny bundle of black fur . |
| 4 | In the event , however , the project occurred in neither of these areas : not in Barnet because the psychogeriatric service was still in the process of development ; nor in Southwark because , although there was an enormous amount of goodwill and enthusiasm for the project , the social services unions ( particularly the joint Home Helps Shop Stewards Committee ) decided that they could not endorse cooperation with the project , the main reason being that they felt — mistakenly in our view — that a project which employed its own carers might be a threat to the employment of local authority home helps , and that ‘ to endorse such a service is not helping the elderly in the long term , it is only carrying out this Government 's stratagem in closing Homes and hospitals ’ . |
| 5 | you 're just paying out that amount of money and suddenly in one goes ' a big , bi , like quite a shock . |
| 6 | Not easy getting up that rope with angry snake behind . |
| 7 | ‘ Hello , Dave , ’ he said , ‘ 1 was just boiling up some water for a shave . ’ |
| 8 | The IB is already hastening down this path . |
| 9 | Bail arm over , wind down , strike and Rick was soon playing out another cat towards the waiting net . |
| 10 | that the reason he did n't sleep was because the fact that he was just sitting around all day . |
| 11 | Aptly summing up this situation , Green ( 1972 : 96 ) said that ‘ while some court imposed fines achieve compensation and others create deterrence , anti-trust fines have the distinction of doing neither ’ . |
| 12 | just striking up that balance int it ? |
| 13 | Attempts to have the libel damages overturned have failed , but he 's still holding out some hope of keeping the family home . |
| 14 | 'In other words , ’ said Codron , ‘ we were responsible for totally mucking up this woman 's entry into womanhood by letting her see Loot . ’ |
| 15 | But in the opinion of one analytical chemist connected with racing , designer drugs have become big business in America and side-by-side with their development have come masking agents — innocent in themselves but if administered at the same time capable of totally wiping out any trace of them . |
| 16 | They were forever breaking up each other 's fish-weirs and quarrelling over competing interests in pasture and peat cutting . |
| 17 | Seb still contrived to spend a couple of hours with Carrie every Sunday evening to work on the farm 's ledgers , carefully noting down each item of expenditure and the profit made . |
| 18 | After voting to close eight more old people 's homes Durham County Council is now cutting back many home help visits to just once a fortnight . |
| 19 | In fact , she 's over at the Yard now chattin' up some foreman or other she 's got eatin' out of her hand . |
| 20 | Not to be denied , Sunderland were ahead again five minutes later , Goodman clinically finishing off another move inspired by Byrne . |
| 21 | It is a place of confluence , quite noisily so I imagine in winter or during the melting season , for rivers splash down into Arreau from east , west and south , at least four of them , with the Neste d'Aure here taking on more water for the journey north . |
| 22 | The 1981 Act itself may be read as implicitly setting out this principle , and Galloway and Goodwin ( 1987 ) have demonstrated its operation in practice . |
| 23 | Among the innovations is a medical mass spectrometer , which will analyse the gases breathed and exhaled by patients , virtually ruling out any risk of brain damage under anaesthetic due to equipment failure or human error . |
| 24 | When Tuesday and Debbie were arguing with their Moms whether they should wear a strapless dress to the dance , she had been carving up gang-girls in warehouse arenas , then picking out some cock-for-the-night from the stud line . |
| 25 | and then turning back this way . |
| 26 | going bankrupt and then starting up another company in another name |
| 27 | Likely to meet the Scottish club are Yorkshire 's Ilkley , who re-confirmed their serious intention to succeed in 1992 by beating lowly-placed Barnard Castle School , and then following up this home victory a few days later with a 3–0 away success in a delayed fixture against Topspin Darlington . |
| 28 | After completely flushing out all hydrocarbon , the plugs were saturated with a brine of 100 000 ppm NaCl . |
| 29 | I think a lot of people have died actually breathing in that shop . |