Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ten minutes before he followed her , finding her in the kitchen apparently listening to a mid-Saturday morning news flash on the radio there with blank-eyed concentration . |
| 2 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
| 3 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
| 4 | Er right I 've got this contraption upside down leading into a a trough of water . |
| 5 | If a threat in the dark not amounting to a threat to kill within s.16 , OAPA , is not an assault the result in relation to unlawful act or constructive manslaughter is this . |
| 6 | Additional gravity data indicate that the overall excess mass of the Huntly 7 basic intrusion is small , the intrusion possibly extending to a depth of no more than 2 kilometres . |
| 7 | The day when the search guards were given orders to act roughly , and the little R.A.S.C. captain who came running out of the block with his mouth still bleeding from a blow with a rifle butt . |
| 8 | In the United States in the 1960s the political will to get to the trough of federal aid resulted in the Model Cities programme rapidly expanding from a focus on 66 metropolitan centres to a total of almost 140 cities spread across the nation ( Levine , 1989 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The money people will have learned their lesson after the Arne Glimcher flop ’ , said a journalist now working on a script about another art world story . |
| 10 | We can hypothesise that if there is a change in visual perception then pointing with a non-preferred hand should show the same adaptive shift as for the normal hand , while pointing to an auditory target should show no adaptive shift . |
| 11 | But his enthusiasm for system led him too easily to assume that a native administration duly gazetted was a native administration actually functioning as a responsible organ of local government , and this set a limit to his achievements in reform . |
| 12 | First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance . |
| 13 | Does no one nowadays keep up the old precaution of when in a strange pub always starting with a half ? — KEN REED , Sutton , Surrey . |
| 14 | Mike Bettsworth , a freelance writer and Press consultant now living in a converted chapel in the small village of Bere Alston , on the banks of the Tamar Valley at the edge of Dartmoor , says it is the slowness of life in the West and the wide open spaces which appeal to him . |
| 15 | Throughout his career he has captured the magic and the frustration of Scottish football , darting arrogantly down the wing in a surge of skill then retreating into a shell of indifference . |
| 16 | Lot number seventeen Lot seventeen , the glass snuff-bottle snuff-bottle there showing at a hundred pounds for this , at one hundred pounds at a hundred pounds , any more at one hundred only , at one hundred all done ? |
| 17 | We have an uncompromising attitude sadly lacking in a lot of what 's coming out at the moment , which is partly to do with not being 18 or 19-year-olds who were really into something that happened fairly recently , whose major motivation is to try and copy that somehow . |
| 18 | Two winters ago , as Taylor tried desperately to revive his career , he spent a winter in the Aussie outback playing for a little-known team called North Kalgoorlie . |
| 19 | ANDREW EDIE 'S BEAUTIFULLY RESTORED AND MAINTAINED T-6G IS THE ONLY MACHINE OF ITS TYPE CURRENTLY OPERATING WITH A CERTIFICATE OF AIRWORTHINESS IN THE PUBLIC TRANSPORT CATEGORY ( MORE DETAILS IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE ) . |
| 20 | In August it was revealed that Karen Smith , the Birmingham girl currently languishing in a Thailand prison after being convicted of drug smuggling , had been signed up by agents IMG . |
| 21 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 22 | I felt my eyelids begin to droop and the warmth of the room slowly turning into a soft buzz in my head , the sort of sound which so often precedes the sudden slip into sleep itself . |
| 23 | For a long moment silence hung in the air between them , Candy obviously searching for a solution to a problem she had never encountered before . |
| 24 | December 8 , 1924 : I am at the moment just recovering from a heavy bout of drinking . |
| 25 | Second , there are larger particles about 2 microns diameter largely confined to the main cloud each particle probably consisting of a liquid droplet of rather impure H 2 SO 4 with up to 20% of other substances . |
| 26 | At the ‘ top end ’ in the open space between the design studio and the pattern room , the car park has been upgraded and extended , covering the sunken stream now passing underneath a bright shiny new tarmac surface . |
| 27 | He slowed down to pick his way among the ! patches of white water quite close inshore , at one point even vanishing between a towering sea-stack and the main cliff , then , once past the headland , he throttled right back and motored tamely into Otters ' Bay , making for the jetty there . |
| 28 | Well I know I know is the only one that realised I would 've been more shocked if had yeah I would have been out on the pavement here whistling with a banjo whistling Dixie there you are that one no not yet no . |
| 29 | As a result of that demoralising experience Biggs was inactive for more than a year , a cut eye then leading to a stoppage against Francesco Damiani , the Italian he defeated in the Olympic final . |
| 30 | Here were a team either playing to a manager 's orders and failing woefully , or simply not playing for him . |