Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They challenged a man who was seen acting suspiciously at a horses ' rest home near their RAF base . |
| 2 | One woman writing anonymously to a women 's magazine told of her distress at a particularly dehumanizing gynaecological examination . |
| 3 | Actually going along with a careers officer |
| 4 | ‘ What will you have ? ’ he enquired , going over to a drinks table while she tested out the couch and discovered that its appearance of comfort was no lie . |
| 5 | Getting on to a YTS course had changed many young people 's lives . |
| 6 | He certainly keeps busy , editing a cricket magazine and running around as a sports manager for Pakistan International Airlines . |
| 7 | No one in the shop seems surprised at two men slipping away from a police raid . |
| 8 | The coverboy faced a civil suit from the parents of a sixteen-year-old girl he 'd foolishly videoed making out with a women in his hotel bedroom . |
| 9 | each cluster is careering forward like a bolas . |
| 10 | He 's done all the work at the scene — all anyone can do — and then he has to cool his heels with the rest of us , waiting for God 's gift to forensic pathology to come screaming up with a police escort and break the news to us that what we all thought was a corpse is — surprise , surprise indeed a corpse , and that we can safely move the body . " |
| 11 | In Herefordshire , education , health , social services and voluntary groups are working together on a Lifestyles Project which enables students leaving college to have a life of their own within the community . |
| 12 | When we see sin unmasked now and again , and reigning even for a minutes unrestrained , we get a faint idea of its extreme hatefulness and loathsomeness . |