Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latest incidents , an antiques dealer was attacked at Keele services on the M Six shortly after midnight and yesterday a woman driving along a quite country road in Chepstow had her car rammed by a gang wielding baseball bats . |
| 2 | Those condemned to lose soon became irritated by the game ; and to the extent that the winners enjoyed the game , they ceased acting in a comradely spirit . |
| 3 | He was replying to a TODAY story on Saturday headlined The Man Most Likely To . |
| 4 | Replying to a TODAY story on Saturday headlined The Man Most Likely To , he said he was still friendly with the princess but would do nothing to embarrass her . |
| 5 | Milton Keynes Borough Council say they will save £400,000 a year by switching to a fortnightly collection of rubbish . |
| 6 | Georg , walking along beside her , his hand resting in a comradely way on her shoulder , had laughed . |
| 7 | Would she grow up into a street urchin , plimsolls , no socks , grimy tee shirt , with a London accent grating on a nicely-brought-up ear ? |
| 8 | His particular desire had been to widen pupils ' science learning from a mainly laboratory and experimental base towards other methods of enquiry . |
| 9 | However they said they would continue insisting on an 8pm bedtime and they would keep up the bedtime stories . |
| 10 | Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings . |