Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 2 | After walking for approximately a quarter of a mile he stopped outside a small detached cottage on his left . |
| 3 | I carry on walking for quite a bit . |
| 4 | As he drew closer , walking with almost a swagger , George noted the way the sun glinted on a head of coppery curls . |
| 5 | There the Reis-ul-Kuttab , or Reis Effendi as he was usually called by foreigners , the head of the grand vizier 's chancery , showed some signs of becoming at least an approximation to a foreign minister . |
| 6 | However , only one in nine households is ‘ typical ’ , most consisting of just a man and a woman . |
| 7 | The defendant 's fourth sub-head of complaint was that the judge did this when the jury had been deliberating for only an hour , citing Reg. v. McKenna [ 1960 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 8 | Joking apart Kevin has been training for nearly a year . |
| 9 | Obviously , tables can be a visible part of a storage wall , acting as either a desk or for dining , and some of them have an extendable top so that they can be pulled right out when you have company . |
| 10 | Ireland now face defending champions Scotland this morning with the Scots looking for just a draw to retain their title . |
| 11 | The situation forced the company to downsize from 35 to six people and start looking for either a buyer or non-exclusive licensees . |
| 12 | Detective Chief Superintendent Alan Shannon , who is heading the investigation , said : ‘ We are looking for either a youth or a young man . |
| 13 | The head and individual staff members meeting for about an hour to discuss the staff member 's responsibilities and the way that the school has progressed over the year ; particular stress being placed on the successes of the staff member and in finding areas of development and growth . |
| 14 | WRECS , which has been operating for almost a decade , now boasts a membership of more than 40 who attended the evening of festive fun at the Pavilion Club , Barlaston , complete with refreshments and cabaret . |
| 15 | The narrow gauge line 's diesel locomotive and two former man-rider carriages have been operating for almost a year at a small extra charge to visitors . |
| 16 | Sixteen children ( 18% ) had faecal soiling with soiling frequency ranging from once a week to daily , mean 3 ( 2 ) soilings per week , despite some treatment in four patients . |
| 17 | A local income tax would work according to where a person lives . |
| 18 | Design as a complex , multi-dimensional activity achieves through forming at once a mode of knowing the world which is at the same time also a mode of acting in the world . |
| 19 | He repudiated his first wife and married a recognised Judaic princess , thereby seeking at least a form of legal sanction . |
| 20 | As they uncovered it , they found they were looking at not a human , but an animal . |
| 21 | In any case , a shotgun fired into the undertaker 's neck at close range would have made a real mess ; we would n't be looking at just a cupful of blood . |
| 22 | ‘ We have a standard spending assessment of £6.155m. which is in no way related to our spending needs , ’ he said , ‘ We are looking at about a £1.4m. reduction in spending . |
| 23 | In this experiment we would be making measurements of the entire world ocean looking at essentially a snapshot view of the behaviour of the ocean during a five year period . |
| 24 | Balleny 's voyage was a commercial failure , the sealskins he unloaded paying for only a fraction of the expedition . |
| 25 | The fuel would have been sufficient to keep the boat going for only a couple of hours , he added . |
| 26 | ‘ But I think I could keep it going for quite a while . |
| 27 | Doubt it cos it was convalescing for quite a while . |
| 28 | First , Mr Delors — who had earlier sent a furious letter to Mr Major , complaining of Britain 's lack of faith over the TV pact — had kept him waiting for over an hour at Heathrow while his flight from Brussels was delayed by fog . |
| 29 | The rest of the queen-dowager 's words were drowned by the prince 's whoops of joy — and the cardinal , kept waiting for over an hour , hearing the hullabaloo , exchanged relieved glances with his fellows . |
| 30 | I had kept him waiting for over an hour , though he was n't too annoyed as he had been able to retrieve three brand new titanium ice screws and a rope , left , we presumed , after an incident the night before when we had a helicopter hovering above the face . |