Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It clanged urgently , like a fire-engine dashing towards a disaster , like the ambulance thundering along behind to retrieve the bodies . |
| 2 | Of course we hope that Dounreay will diversify and look for work outside nuclear tasks , especially in the area of alternative and renewable energies ; but we all know that the fast reactor programme will cease in 1994 and I do not think it right that , as a matter of policy , the hon. Lady should seek to shut off the work going on there to reprocess nuclear fuel . |
| 3 | He paused , reminding McLeish irresistibly of a Labrador wondering how best to approach an acquaintance . |
| 4 | I have seen beheading done too early and too suddenly — with the result that the still not perfectly united bud is literally pushed out by the sudden flood having nowhere else to go . |
| 5 | In Britain a lifetime administrative career can still be crowned after retirement by a company directorship or a job advising how best to influence one 's erstwhile colleagues . |
| 6 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |
| 7 | They were not kept waiting , the train coming in exactly to schedule . |
| 8 | For a moment they struggled with each other 's clothing , tearing at the lacing , freeing themselves , and then he had lifted her on to him and was thrusting deep into her , her legs wrapped about his back , her pelvis pushing down urgently to meet his movements . |
| 9 | The art therefore is to get the tyre spinning just enough to execute the turn , and then maintain forward drive as the tyre struggles to hook up . |
| 10 | The circulation depends on having enough blood in the system to fill the vessels , on the small arteries acting as taps which can be adjusted to send the blood where it is needed , and on the heart beating hard enough to push the blood through the resistance given by the taps . |
| 11 | But how could I get a fire going fast enough to catch them ? |
| 12 | Lydia lay for some time wondering how best to upset him . |
| 13 | I 'd say what we can see is some of that heat surviving long enough to escape through a cave mouth , ’ she said to Ace . |