Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a common reaction to the effect of the remedy and you should wait and expect to see an improvement over the next few minutes or an hour or so depending on how severe the illness is . |
| 2 | They spend the next hour or so chatting before going in for lunch . |
| 3 | What we 're gon na do now , it 's just coming up to twenty past three , so we 'll take a tea break and then after tea we 'll come back and we 'll spend about an hour or so looking at identifying trainees . |
| 4 | She spent most of the next half hour or so talking about the extended holiday to Patagonia she was planning , in an extremely loud voice and with an enthusiasm that would probably have embarrassed the Argentinian Tourist Board . |
| 5 | An hour or so working at 150 feet is hard work . |
| 6 | But I think it 's important to make the distinction , learning about religion or actually teaching for belief . |
| 7 | This apparently involves sending patients an eyesight test card and then running through the test itself over the telephone . |
| 8 | In his book , On the Trail of Terror , David Leppard wrote later that , privately , Hayes believed the Lockerbie bomb had been a dual device , triggered by a barometric switch and then running on a timer , but that not enough of it had been recovered to be sure . |
| 9 | But the French referendum on closer European ties left a huge headache for Premier John Major , currently EC president and still reeling from last week 's pound crisis . |
| 10 | In the end , Reagan came very close to defeating Ford , obtaining more popular votes in the primaries than the president and only losing on the ballot for the nomination in the Convention by 111 votes out of a total cast of 2,257 . |
| 11 | The vilification of a young man — with convictions for car theft and now working with young boys making prize-winning community videos — edged on violence . |
| 12 | For example I have learnt to lay-up a table consisting of : — side plate , butter knife , glasses , cups and saucers , other cutlery and also putting on tablecloths and flowers . |
| 13 | I remember standing at the back of the club and just leaning against the wall and watching him . |
| 14 | Afterwards we braved the blizzards and all met for tea and home baking in the parish hall . |
| 15 | Harry 's gaze was fixed on the stranger and still looking at him he nodded . |
| 16 | We went farther up the wasted beach , still finding interesting pieces of flotsam and finally coming to the rusted remnant I thought was a water-tank or a half-buried canoe , from a distance . |
| 17 | A major purveyor of Tory gossip and still looking for a job . |
| 18 | No but as erm Mrs has mentioned to me , when it comes to er converting an existing garage into a den or a study and then asking for another garage to be built . |
| 19 | Hopefully , your loved one is still in one piece and jubilantly striding across Westminster Bridge at the 26.2 mile stage — the finish . |
| 20 | Four months ago Alan Govier was looking forward to early retirement , buying a new car and perhaps going on holiday . |
| 21 | If it is indeed to be a land battle , that inevitably bloody affair will with luck be fast-moving , and people will see it as a struggle fought with a clear aim against an obdurate enemy and plainly moving towards an allied victory . |
| 22 | ( c ) master equipment for recording and reproducing , e.g. recording a programme off air on to tape and then transferring to cassettes for use at the satellites . |
| 23 | Naturally , there are many TNCs that run specific production lines to serve specific markets ( see Hill and Still , 1984a , b ) , but it is usually the case that a TNC will prefer to enter a new market with a standard product rather than incur the costs of retooling , redesign and perhaps restructuring of distribution . |
| 24 | It was a splendid , memorable day , walking , fishing and simply lazing in warm June sunlight , lulled by the song of lark and meadow pipit . |
| 25 | I believe that her fear of losing control of her eating and thus developing into an adult woman , which makes her fight against her ever-present hunger , is understandable . |
| 26 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 27 | ‘ We had a nest of white sticks in a tree and I can remember others of our kind soaring high on the wind and then stooping from out of that same hot sky , down towards the surface of the lake , their stoop so fast that you could hear the winds riffling and racing in their outstretched wings . |
| 28 | UI president Peter Cunningham believes the new ABI could mean up to 75% commonality between the systems for the software programmer , initially on the client side and then moving to the server . |
| 29 | But ‘ Shakespeare 's Sister ’ ( which took its title from a Virginia Woolf essay on what would have happened if the bard had been female , a different way of looking at women although one has to search hard to find any reference to this in the actual song ) was hardly the band 's most shining masterwork , merely a jumble or rock and rockabilly plummeting through 129 seconds which fail to motivate the memory cells . |
| 30 | First they send you all round the town and then you get processed into a system with thousands of other people and it does n't feel at all like driving to a town on the coast and just getting on a boat . |