Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were sheep who had decided that this was no time to waste energy panicking when it could be used for galloping away as fast as possible . |
| 2 | Lenagan built a three-mile lead , but he , too , was forced to retire after notching up just over 60 miles in 8 hours 35 mins . |
| 3 | Clive Brittain 's triple Classic heroine was sent off favourite , but , after pulling hard early on , faded in the closing stages behind the locally-trained winner Tokai Teio . |
| 4 | The resistance was broken when a tiring Ratnayeke was superbly caught by the wicketkeeper Ian Healy , one-handed down the leg side , for 75 after flicking once too often at Greg Campbell . |
| 5 | Soon she declared that the sauna was suffocating ; after repeating once more how she hated modesty , she got up and left . |
| 6 | for looking upwards too early |
| 7 | Never was the enormous authority of this machine for living in ever so well expressed as in this scene of picturesque desolation . |
| 8 | Whenever she said to him , ‘ But , Norman — do n't you want to sit in it , like other people ? ’ he would reply , rather grandly , ‘ A garden , my dear , is a place for passing through as quickly as possible on the way to the pub . ’ |
| 9 | One woman traced her like of cooking not only back to her mother but to her grandmother . |
| 10 | Community policing was once the normal form of policing in the United Kingdom , but the increasingly bureaucratic and professional nature of policing unintentionally yet progressively separated the police from the community , leading to more anonymous and impersonal contacts between them ( see Ericson 1982 : 24 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ If you ask me , it comes of hanging around too long with Glastonbury , who regards his every word as wise or witty . |
| 12 | Although you may get ridiculously low because of pressing on too hard , when , a few minutes later , you are back in the good conditions several thousand feet up , you must forget the wasted time and concentrate on flying normally . |
| 13 | He married a model-turned-actress , then , instead of living happily ever after , divorced after a very public affair with his backing singer . |
| 14 | ‘ The footprints were about twenty metres from the body , and nobody thought of looking so far away , ’ Mortimer replied . |
| 15 | It took nearly a year of searching as far afield as Slough to find suitable premises for the nursery . |
| 16 | She felt as if she 'd uncovered a dark pit of long-buried feelings , and she was terrified of peering too far inside in case she could n't cope with the contents … |
| 17 | Transatlantic tourists and suburban groupies may be willing to fork out the £1 cover charge for sporadic glimpses of Michael Caine and Jason Donovan , but grown-ups are kept loyal by cooking that is honest and robust and hardly ever hiccups in spite of turning over almost as many portions as Ramsden 's . |
| 18 | A third type of comfort to be drawn from an apparently stable system like Denmark 's lies in the reminder of how many of the current fears of British ‘ curriculum managers ’ are , precisely , ‘ current ’ : the transitory outcome of attempting too much too fast , rather than an intrinsic feature of centrally-defined curricula . |
| 19 | ‘ I should 've thought of invoking that long since . |
| 20 | We are yeah we had video at number three about three or four years back , and we thought that was great and we never dreamed of going any further up the charts you know so it 's great that this one 's gone to number one . |
| 21 | Er I was toying with the idea of getting out altogether out of the , I 'll be honest with double glazing . |
| 22 | I think some stations might do that , but they only do it if , if it 's , if it 's not going to be detrimental to the turn out , in other words they , they have a system , erm for instance they have a duty crew over the weekend , so that at least some can take their families to the seaside if they wanted to , so six will remain around the house er er but they do have some system , but I think the majority of fire stations , there are twenty seven in Suffolk like that , who work on the system of getting there as quickly as they can , and that is the best competition to get there , to get the ride . |
| 23 | But they do n't make the mistake of breaking in right away . |
| 24 | The fact that some deaf people appear to use a completely different form of coding just as effectively , makes it essential that some re-assessment of the models be made . |
| 25 | ‘ And you need n't worry ; I 've no intention of staying here long enough for you to continue insulting me . |
| 26 | sort of staying that long anyway . |
| 27 | And these are just sort of piling up together well they they can all be if we choose it right we can make it usually make it one . |
| 28 | The last Minister for the Arts but one , Tim Renton , made a remark to me about the difficulty of speaking up too energetically for the arts sector in the House of Commons , for fear that the other MPs would say , ‘ Ah , poor chap , he 's gone native ’ . |
| 29 | In some kinds of violent volcanic eruptions pyroclasts combine with large quantities of hot gases to form a fluid-like flow which is capable of moving very rapidly even over very low gradients . |
| 30 | It 's important for the foreign traveller to accumulate lots of useless gadgetry and ephemera that they 'd never dream of buying normally , and which makes the whole process of travelling so much more cumbersome and awkward for others . |