Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His blue Vauxhall Astra car was on the drive where Mr Miles had parked it after driving home for lunch yesterday . |
| 2 | If you have another part-time job , or domestic commitments , then bank nursing can be a very flexible way of keeping up to date professionally . |
| 3 | But the training of surgeons and operating teams for keyhole surgery is n't keeping up with demand so Trent Health Authority is spending a hundred and fifty thousand pounds on a training centre at Leicester General . |
| 4 | Being with a prostitute is different from meeting a girl at a party and ending up in bed together , although there 's no difference in the mechanics of the sex . |
| 5 | It 's funny to be driving up to town again . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm far too tired to start driving back across town now . |
| 7 | People interested in agricultural improvement in the nineteenth century — in improving farming methods , in increasing the potential yield of land and in methods of improving the manner of storage of its produce — saw the formal lease as a mechanism for spelling out in advance precisely who was responsible for what , and for enshrining in legal terms how the land was to be utilised . |
| 8 | Everything 's seized up while the ground 's frozen — there wo n't be much happening there till spring now . |
| 9 | When Yorkshire Television 's documentary on asbestos showed a 10-year-old boy dying horribly of mesothelioma probably ( or even possibly ) caused by the asbestos he breathed while watching his father change asbestos-lined brake shoes , it does the asbestos industry no good at all to point out that the risk of contracting mesothelioma is quite low . |
| 10 | Another way of looking at the process is to regard the member of the pair of particles that falls into the black hole — ; the antiparticle , say — as being really a particle that is traveling backward in time Thus , the antiparticle falling into the black hole can be regarded as a particle coming out of the black hole but traveling backward in time . |
| 11 | She was looking directly at Coffin now , but was not seeing him . |
| 12 | Looking more like rugger forwards , the local Girls line up for ‘ On the Road ’ at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool , 1 112– |
| 13 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 14 | They 're probably really looking forward to winter now they know that . |
| 15 | We were really looking forward to Christmas together as a family but now everything is ruined . |
| 16 | By the end of the evening I certainly wished the Kings Head was my local hotel restaurant , and I 'm looking forward to dining again at the Kings Head next time I have cause to visit Richmond . |
| 17 | If it is crystal clear and I am convicted of being in my dotage or of going on at half-cock then I shall ask British Telecom to accept my apologies wince at the thought of my next bill , and keep my nose clean . |
| 18 | I talk to a lot of people about ‘ the train option ’ , i.e. the option of going somewhere by train rather than car . |
| 19 | used to be er , you know as you 're going down to infirmary down from you turn right on the road do n't you ? |
| 20 | Aksum had outlasted Jerusalem and Rome , going down in ruin only eighty years before the Norman conquest of Britain . |
| 21 | It was pouring down with rain though . |
| 22 | I said I could n't stop the night because I was going away on holiday early the next morning . |
| 23 | If you are going away on holiday like I go away on holiday and probably some your colleagues and you 're going abroad for two three weeks , it makes commonsense to try and protect your home as soon as you possibly , as much as you can by isolating the risk . |
| 24 | ‘ I am going over to Stone later on to change our Mother 's accumulator . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're going home at midnight tomorrow . ’ |
| 26 | But free or not , no one should stop her going off with Midnight anywhere . |
| 27 | Yet they wriggled away , heading directly for water even though a rise in the ground had to be climbed in order to reach it . |
| 28 | Moreover , children attending school and adults turning up for work inevitably have their liberty restricted : simply because the engagement in one activity necessarily restricts their opportunity to participate in other activities , that is , restriction by effect . |
| 29 | If you want to study the most refined version of clothes-talk , just look at all the elegant women who have been turning up in court recently . |
| 30 | Somebody 's going up to bed shortly . |