Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The festival is good for the economy , bringing in a million pounds to the area . |
| 2 | Bravd , galloping along a few feet away , nodded . |
| 3 | But one day he made the mistake , at least from his point of view , of bringing along a few tapes of his favourite soul and reggae music . |
| 4 | Jess said , climbing down a few rungs . |
| 5 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 6 | I WAS IN the office checking over a few invoices and trying to locate the squeak on my swivel chair when the phone rang . |
| 7 | It has suffered in recent years from heavy traffic which the new by — pass will alleviate , but the old market town which I remember from forty-odd years ago is fast becoming yet a multiple retailers ' outlet . |
| 8 | We 're seeing just a few cases and I do n't deny the fact that occasionally there are bullies in the Army . |
| 9 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
| 10 | Standard size is 16 x 25 x 39in , which is 40 x 63 x100cm , quite enough for a largish kite , and costing only a few pennies . |
| 11 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 12 | There had to be more to it than simply filling in a few spaces with a ballpoint ; greater symbolic weight was required . |
| 13 | So again , erm a way of picking up a few marks , quite a few . |
| 14 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 15 | ‘ Being used as cheap labour to break Alejandro 's ponies , ’ said Luke , taking Perdita 's suitcases from her , ‘ in return for picking up a few tips from the master . ’ |
| 16 | All three of the participants in that clandestine meeting , looking back a few months later , were to recall the weather on that day as an omen — a mirror of the tempestuous events which followed . |
| 17 | Some are heaps of stones in a number of characteristic shapes , dating back a thousand years or more . |
| 18 | Starting from the logic of sustainability , we end up with a very similar size for a new community to the one that Howard was writing about a hundred years ago . |
| 19 | This bright red bus is large and suitable for serving quite a few children . |
| 20 | It baffled her as to why she should feel a tingle in her veins just because Piers Morrison was lying only a few inches away from her . |
| 21 | Channichthyid fish of antarctic waters , for example the icefish Champsocephalus aceratus , are unusual in possessing only a few erythrocytes ( red blood corpuscles ) as larvae and none as adults ; related species have much reduced erythrocyte counts throughout life . |
| 22 | The smallholder , growing only a few rows , will probably ‘ dibble ’ the tubers into the original ridges by hand , thereby saving the subsequent ridging operation . |
| 23 | Turning over a few leaves . |
| 24 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
| 25 | Peering out a few seconds later , Manville saw him turn and begin to stroll down the street . |
| 26 | The latest results mark a milestone for Sherwood , which now claims to be Britain 's biggest sock-maker , pumping out a million pairs a week , and is a supplier to that favourite of underwear retailers , Marks & Spencer . |
| 27 | It was like going back a hundred years . |
| 28 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
| 29 | Going back a few years , Treasure Hunting , January 1983 issue , contains an article concerning a button that had been found , and requested information on the unit mentioned . |
| 30 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |