Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What frightened him most was the still figure of William Tanner lying prone beside the office wall , blood already beginning to turn dark on his battered face . |
| 2 | We came across many cases of schools using minimal resourcing to maximum effect ; and of schools with a substantial PNP staff enhancement manifestly failing to take advantage of what that enhancement could offer . |
| 3 | Officers and firemen found the blazing vehicle finally at a halt , with the crew desperately trying to rescue equipment . |
| 4 | A straw poll covering 40 London restaurants and two large liquor-store chains unearthed only one outlet not intending to re-order Perrier when it becomes available again . |
| 5 | By this time the aircraft was at a height of approximately 300 feet with the landing gear still down , the crew not having had time to select it up because of their preoccupation with avoiding the bird flocks . |
| 6 | ( Film sequence of riot police following horses in pursuit of miners ; policeman repeatedly striking crouching picket about the head ; miner taking flying kick at same policeman ; officer hitting different picket on head with baton as he is leading him behind police lines . ) |
| 7 | Similarly , Congress played no role of consequence in the Cuban Missile crisis and Lyndon Johnson , by the end of his presidency , had more than half a million troops in Vietnam without Congress ever having declared war against the North Vietnamese . |
| 8 | He had been moved from the Royal Alexandria Hospital , Paisley , to the private Alexandra Nursing Home almost a year earlier having suffered brain damage after a stabbing incident . |
| 9 | In an attempt to out-Flynn Errol Flynn , he was seen at a party drunkenly trying to make love to one young girl after another . |