Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv prt] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And will she be bringing them down here to stay do you think ? ’ |
| 2 | I saw now she was softening me up just to ask me a favour . |
| 3 | The students who have been writing everything down now look up and smile wryly at Robyn Penrose , like victims of a successful hoax . |
| 4 | This classification sorts out Johnson 's compound class by splitting it on visually dominating features into his emergent and submergent classes . |
| 5 | They 're doing it on there look ! |
| 6 | I 'm not taking you up there to vomit in the Land Rover . ’ |
| 7 | In the Sonnet just quoted , Britten breaks off the rhythm only near the end , with a few sustained chords , before taking it up again to come to a strong conclusion . |
| 8 | It had already invested £33 million in drilling projects to assess the feasibility of pumping cold water four miles below the surface into fractured hot rock and drawing it up sufficiently heated to generate power . |
| 9 | Tie in the new shoots on climbing roses , bending them over horizontally to encourage flowering side shoots . |
| 10 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 11 | Whatever was affecting the rate time passed at seemed to obey the inverse square law , the phenomenon apparently radiating from each clock face , while at the same time there was a more generalised sort of effect emanating from the huge central mechanism buried somewhere in the castle 's many lower levels , making everything down there happen more quickly . |
| 12 | He 'd shaken up Evans , first bawling him out then ending up with a show of confidence in him with the Havana . |
| 13 | Even with the help of a dockside crane , putting it up again proved even more problematic . |
| 14 | Without tampering with the deviant sentence itself , we can investigate the effects of placing it in variously elaborated discourse contexts . |
| 15 | It makes me mad to think Big Business is slowly polishing me off so's to increase its profit margins on pesticide . ’ |
| 16 | You make one by going through all your data to find all the different phonetic sounds you have written , and arranging them on phonetically ordered charts , one for consonants and one for vowels , including modifications ( for details see Introduction to Phonemic Analysis ) . |