Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can adapt the menus for eating away from home , i.e. at work or even in a restaurant . |
| 2 | perceiving through reflecting all as will . |
| 3 | This lovely Victorian house is quite blissfully situated amongst a cluster of houses , in the village of Alnmouth , right on the banks of the river estuary , with only a small garden and a ‘ no through ’ road between it and the beach — it is brilliant for tumbling out of bed and enjoying a long walk on almost deserted sands . |
| 4 | Their long mobile noses are used for rooting around in search of small animals . |
| 5 | With commercial considerations about patenting strongly in mind , they pursued unfamiliar compounds , not related to the barbiturates or other sedatives or tranquillizers then known . |
| 6 | In the case of Owen and Huxley there was a complex relationship , for Owen had been almost his father-in-science ; but Owen had other serious reasons for seeing little in Darwinism . |
| 7 | We will pay you 2,000 for seeing through to completion the data files from the submitted ASCII files for the first four titles of Reading for English , 50% of this on signature of this letter and 50% on delivery . |
| 8 | MICHAEL BORLINGHAUS INDICTED FOR TRADING ON INSIDE INFORMATION FROM IBM EXECUTIVE |
| 9 | What is our mechanism for keeping up to date ? |
| 10 | FERGIE may have found it difficult to learn Her Royal Lessons , but you do n't have to be a fitness connoisseur to see that she has learned a thing or two about keeping in Of course her title of the Disappearing Duchess takes on a different meaning now a year ago it referred to her ability to lose five stones of regal flab . |
| 11 | By contrast , general purposive browsing describes the academic researcher who indulges in a similar activity of looking over books but with a serious purpose in mind , such as keeping up to date in his field or looking for new ideas . |
| 12 | At the turn of the year , clients dithered about signing up for consultancy projects . |
| 13 | Between keeping up with opera , theatre , art exhibitions and all the other things that the upper middle classes go in for , my playtime was severely limited . |
| 14 | You get the odd burglary , but you do n't worry about walking around at night . |
| 15 | People interested in agricultural improvement in the nineteenth century — in improving farming methods , in increasing the potential yield of land and in methods of improving the manner of storage of its produce — saw the formal lease as a mechanism for spelling out in advance precisely who was responsible for what , and for enshrining in legal terms how the land was to be utilised . |
| 16 | Good buys : Any duty free goods are worth purchasing either on board or in port . |
| 17 | Mika Hakkinen did a superb job for the under-financed Lotus team , the young Finn impressing everyone with his mature and confident approach after stepping up from Formula 3 . |
| 18 | After appearing close to agreement they diverged on 8 April when the Americans proposed further change to permit more flexibility in consultation . |
| 19 | The critically-ill youngster had been staying with various people after walking out of home following rows with her stepfather John . |
| 20 | His blue Vauxhall Astra car was on the drive where Mr Miles had parked it after driving home for lunch yesterday . |
| 21 | After nibbling away at piece after piece of mahala and making a large hole in the harees dish , I said my Alhamdulillah — Thanks be to God . |
| 22 | Every year on the Wednesday evening , after going up to bed , I used to stand at my window and gaze towards the fair some five hundred yards away , watching the flickering lights and hearing the screams and music , feeling quite sad that the show was over for another year . |
| 23 | On reaching the last train they found a colleague talking to a middle-aged man dressed in a light-coloured rain coat and flat cap who was assumed to have been overcarried on the last train after going out of service at Capland Road Station . |
| 24 | How do they fare at the hands of those who provide the services both in these later years and in the years after going out of care ? |
| 25 | John Phipps , 26 , and his 29-year-old girlfriend Joanne Johnson were in an MG Metro which hit a Toyota estate head-on after going out of control in Westcliff-on-Sea , Essex . |
| 26 | The car transporter ended up blocking the A40 northbound after going out of control on a sliproad . |
| 27 | Offiah , back in action against Widnes last Friday after missing two matches with hamstring trouble , was carried off early in the second half after pulling up in agony . |
| 28 | Loss of A73–40 was the result of the aircraft hitting trees on high ground after cleaning up on take-off . |
| 29 | According to this morning 's Irish Times , Dave O'Leary did n't get to play in the reserves and may have to undergo surgery on this achilles after breaking down in training yesterday . |
| 30 | Christmas Day 1988 has been delightful if unremarkable and we snuggle down after pigging out on room service and a floor picnic of the remaining Marks and Spencer goodies . |