Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ Nothing worth sticking around for here . |
| 2 | He suggests a minimum earnings level for contracting out of around £8,500 to £10,000 , while LAS similarly recommends £9,000 . |
| 3 | Kidsgrove Athletic 2 Skelmersdale United 2 : Luckless Skem were denied a deserved victory in the last two minutes after coming back from behind . |
| 4 | Jonesy was still struggling to get out of the grave , and this he managed only with his father 's help , after falling back in once . |
| 5 | Obviously a writer who is happy with ‘ super-refined ’ ( elsewhere he says that Eliot 's ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ is ‘ extraordinarily sensitized ’ ) is not a critic worth pausing on for long ; and yet when Untermeyer cites all too patent imitations of Eliot 's ‘ Sweeney Among the Nightingales ’ in quatrains by Osbert Sitwell and Herbert Read and Robert Nichols , one can see good reason for him to think that Eliot s reputation , achieved so fast on such a slender body of work , was no more than modish . |
| 6 | I wanted to go to sleep , but was terrified of waking up in there , mummified , and going berserk . |
| 7 | As the previous chapter showed , many aspects of growing up in today 's world encourage such a dismissive attitude to religion . |
| 8 | Pupils ' experience of growing up in today 's society : |
| 9 | Yet others may be thinking of going on to more formal education , and treat a year with the OCA as an introduction to their particular interest . |
| 10 | It did n't usually matter because there was always the alternative of going back to where we started and tighten the game up ’ . |
| 11 | And the TARDIS is our best hope of getting out of here . ’ |
| 12 | While you 're here do n't say it , and we might all stand a chance of getting out of here alive . |
| 13 | For one thing , she was almost entirely at his mercy , even to the point of getting out of here and back to Paris and her plane home . |
| 14 | I 've probably finished what little chance I had of getting out of here in one piece . |
| 15 | And if a strange person is walking up the driveway with intention of breaking in at least somebody may notice it . |
| 16 | So I think I 'm gon na change my nights this , of staying in to either Mo , Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Wednesday something like that . |
| 17 | Frigging around instead of facing up to where the bloody wife had gone and putting a stop to it at once . |
| 18 | It 's a period of facing up to radically new cost levels . |
| 19 | However , there are ways of coming up to here we 've got a lot of co-operation a lot of trust and here you get what 's called synergies , new names , have you heard that name before synergy , synergy ? |
| 20 | He has a habit of playing in at least the inaugural event held on one of his lay-outs and in December 1988 fully intended to play in the Austrian Open of 1989 . |
| 21 | There was loads of washing up in here still to do last night you just had to leave it . |
| 22 | He was for going on at once , but I would stay ; so he said he would return to Mullinavat and wait for me in a bar there . |
| 23 | No he was just saying it 's not worth going back on now . |
| 24 | Have you ever thought about getting out of here , you know , if it 's all on the door ? |
| 25 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for sorting out at least the hon. Gentleman 's mathematics with obvious skill and knowledge . |
| 26 | As she began to choke she kicked and struggled for breath before tumbling down into nowhere . |
| 27 | The smell hit them as they slithered to the bottom of the slope and McLeish resolutely took a breath before walking over to where the swollen body lay . |
| 28 | Another American , Malivai Washington , overcame Keil 's resistance in the third round and the stubborn efforts of Fitzgerald in the quarters before bowing out in just 73 minutes in the semi-final to Edberg . |
| 29 | But there was no point in mooning around until then . |
| 30 | Algorithms such as reversing sequences of ie to ei following a letter c are effective first attempts before going on to more complicated techniques , or even instead of such techniques which may turn out to be counter-productive in terms of time taken and the number of candidates produced . |