Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now , in these last few days , he had watched its golden leaves fluttering down to form a glowing carpet at its foot , as the autumn winds tossed the great boughs this way and that . |
| 2 | Which is all very well , but nobody 's phoning in to accept a silly offer . |
| 3 | Until well into the 1970s , the almost universal conventional wisdom — except perhaps in the United States — was that the government should stand ready to act as a deus ex machina , stepping in to save the capitalist system from its inherent defects of inequality in the distribution of the wealth it created , of unbalanced investment that created private affluence and public squalor , and or vulnerability to cyclical downturn , slump and unemployment ( for example , Shonfield , 1965 ; Galbraith , 1956 ) . |
| 4 | I am grateful to our member Vic Smith for stepping in to fill a vacant gap in April . |
| 5 | In eight or nine rounds the referee should be stepping in to rescue the younger man , unless he is knocked out . |
| 6 | Instead of ignoring the Alamo and its small garrison , and pressing on to fight the main Texan army , Santa Anna decided to take the Alamo by storm . |
| 7 | Three visitors from Frankfurt , Germany , recently visited ACET 's offices before returning home to begin a similar service , Christian AIDS Help ( CAH ) . |
| 8 | With natural neatness a new career is opening up to replace the old . |
| 9 | With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing . |
| 10 | Beat the egg and add to the potato mixture , blending well to make a smooth dough . |
| 11 | The professor takes you into the world of portable computing explaining how to make the most of your walk-about P.C. The program is basically a collection of text files with an easy to use reader . |
| 12 | He has made himself so by resolving never to make the same mistake twice . |
| 13 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 14 | We were not far below the hanging glacier bivouac , where we stopped for two hours before pushing on to make the most of the night . |
| 15 | She tore her eyes away from his and pushed through the crowd , wanting only to put a great distance between herself and Lucenzo . |
| 16 | At this point we are seeking only to explain the social frameworks which render certain actions intelligible , and we do not wish to imply causal links between social frames and social action . |
| 17 | This restriction , however , merely limits Mr Nesbitt , who is chairman of the casino company Crockford 's , and Mr Isaacs from conspiring together to start a rival record chain . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll send me husband , then , ’ she said , huffily , and went out vanquished , pausing only to give a good hard scratch to her left calf . |
| 19 | Read The Satanic Verses , A Brief History Of Time , and The Name Of The Rose ( pausing only to translate the Latin sections into Esperanto ) . |
| 20 | And remember that most of the candidates in most of the constituencies believe throughout , in their secret hearts , that they can not win — while most of the remainder are looking only to resume the dismal MP 's job they had before , once this is over and out of the way . |
| 21 | BUDGENS , Londis and a host of smaller supermarket chains are ganging together to beat the big boys at their own game . |
| 22 | They are simple to install , for all that is required is that they be level from side to side , and with the lip protruding sufficiently to enable the full body of water to be emptied into the pool rather than on to the surrounding ground ( Fig. 9 ) . |
| 23 | As she advanced into this room full of teenagers , pretending not to smell the rich aroma of Acapulco Gold , gracefully rippling the caftan of pink flowered silk which she considered appropriately hip casual wear , the kids all stopped what they were doing and collected admiringly around her . |
| 24 | With Matt Greenwood and Martin Pepper in tremendous form on the flank and with Stuart Potter scything through to score the decisive try of the game , Nottingham put a considerable dent in Northampton 's hopes of winning League One . |
| 25 | When you have picked up stitches , for example to knit on a neckband , or when picking up to make a sideways knitted front band , if the edge is a bit rough it is a very good idea to bring the needles holding the picked up edges or stitches out to E position before knitting across with the side levers at 0 . |
| 26 | Real wages were rising for those in , work , and living standards improved markedly in the Midlands and the South-East , serving both to diminish the political impact of unemployment and to increase the differentiation of the country . |
| 27 | Fancy teaming up to shoot a few goals in a dynamic , fast growing team sport ? |
| 28 | The voice startled him and he spun round , looking up to see a young woman standing there . |
| 29 | Similarly the many Mexicans looking simply to cast an anti-government vote supported the left , which stood a greater chance of winning and emerged in second place amid evidence of substantial fraud by the government . |
| 30 | Socialists should now be addressing how to build a new organisation rooted in the offices , factories and communities as Labour once was . |