Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He travelled widely after graduating with a second-class BA ( ordinary degree ) in 1878 and spent a year as a stockman in Queensland , Australia . |
| 2 | ‘ Little talk with Jesus ? ’ he said , and , halfway through reaching for a tube of tomato purée , he closed his eyes and froze solid as if overtaken by a large quantity of molten lava . |
| 3 | A jet lad , Robert Middleton , was fined 2s 6d ( 12p ) for assaulting a woman neighbour , merely for sitting on a seat he had made . |
| 4 | Only worth growing as a substitute for waterlilies in shaded or running water . |
| 5 | Under British pressure , the French eventually departed in humiliation , but only after presiding over a covenant that gave the Lebanese republic the system of power-sharing which is now disintegrating . |
| 6 | Mildred had bought a mask which featured hair made from uncarded sheep 's wool , and which had produced moths only after hanging for a year on the landing of her staircase . |
| 7 | There was no question that he could have gone into some major productions and worked with some of the more notable directors ; he refused point blank , especially after seeing On a Clear Day . |
| 8 | Their career opportunities consist of moving from second bassoon to first bassoon and perhaps of moving from a second-rank orchestra to a better , more prestigious one . |
| 9 | Only before embarking on a major expedition have I seen the tension surface in Andy . |
| 10 | Confirmation that importing ice was not then regular practice comes from the fact that customs officers in London were unclear what import duties to levy , and delayed so long in coming to a conclusion that Leftwich feared his cargo might melt . |
| 11 | The additional band migrating between N-Oct 3 and 5 was also observed in brain extracts after longer exposure , perhaps from binding of a cofactor to the N-Oct 5 complex rather than a dimer of N-Oct 5 which is expected to migrate slower . |
| 12 | The army has profited nicely from acting as a conduit for arms supplies to the resistance armies fighting in Cambodia and from its control of the timber and gem trades with Cambodia , Laos and Burma . |
| 13 | When he returned they lived together before marrying in a quiet register office ceremony in December 1986 . |
| 14 | Erm with chimney sweeper was waiting down in the high street he was waiting there whoa said Mr to the donkey , the donkey was wondering probably whether he was so without listening to a word of warning he jumped on him |
| 15 | When you looked up too long without blinking on a day when the sun was high and the blue saturated the sky evenly and deeply from the horizon to the zenith , and closed your eyes , what you saw then was fire , crisscrossed with rivulets of blood . |
| 16 | Get to know Steffi , or Stefan , Gabriela , or Boris , Andre , or Arantxa a little better by subscribing to a Tennis World fan club service for one year — you know it makes sense … |
| 17 | This is just next door to his old address at No 76 , where he managed to evade a High Court Deputy Tipstaff last week after a tip-off from the landlord , apparently by climbing through a back window and shinning down a drainpipe . |
| 18 | This stronger sense of learning also carries with it the idea that ultimately the student is able to evaluate it for him or herself , and form a personal view about its validity ( by reading the relevant articles , by listening to the different views of the authorities on the topic , and perhaps by assisting in a clinical trial ) . |
| 19 | Many areas that appear to be hazard-free on current maps may merely by passing through a temporary period of quiescence . |
| 20 | He did so by insisting on a crucial distinction between the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith . |
| 21 | It does so by going to a series of intermediate goals , for example the junction of the branch it is on with the main stem . |
| 22 | All natural behaviour has , therefore , become so by going through a stage of being unnatural . |
| 23 | Is it not then possible that Satan , in his opposition to Christ and man , and wishing to destroy all that God has given , could do so by appearing in a godly angelic light ? |
| 24 | And even those modern fictional texts , such as the novels of Samuel Beckett , that seem dedicated to demonstrating the impossibility of communicating anything to anybody about anything , do so by alluding to a paradigmatic act of storytelling , a paradise lost of communication : |
| 25 | Indeed , only by holding to a very diffuse and very general understanding of social theory is it possible to see many of these views and their exponents as representatives of the same general theoretical approach . |
| 26 | The result was that one Michał Drzymała , who purchased land in Wolsztyn , circumvented the rules only by living in a caravan for nearly ten years . |
| 27 | I escaped only by jumping on a bus to Warminster . |
| 28 | At the end of his first week back , Baldwin went to stay at Cumberland Lodge , in Windsor Great Park , only a few miles front Fort Belvedere , a bijou residence which justified its martial name only by looking like a toy castle , but which was nonetheless the King 's main base throughout his brief reign . |
| 29 | The river was in flood and tradition maintains that Coilus was able to cross only by leaping onto a large rock in mid-stream and from it to the farther bank . |
| 30 | He died 18 March 1963 at West London Hospital , Hammersmith , shortly after returning from a trip to the Cameroons . |