Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other behavioural strategies included eating slowly in a room away from the kitchen , preparing all food thoroughly before starting to eat , rather than eating standing up during cooking . |
| 2 | She sensed that the barometer of their fraught relationship had plummeted to an all-time freeze and , at last , tormented beyond endurance , she stopped typing halfway through a schedule and went into his office . |
| 3 | Resting only for a second |
| 4 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 5 | Functionally it was an interlocking web of economic and social purpose of great imagination : a masterly bringing together of a number of town planning themes . |
| 6 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
| 7 | Air and earth , she told herself again , her brows drawing together in a grimace . |
| 8 | The perspective of the poem follows its language , tumbling suddenly into a burst of passion and emotion as the poet struggles to observe the forces that buffet him in the heart of his mind . |
| 9 | He saw Maud once in the Kurfûrstendamm , eating alone in a cafe and looking a little desolate , with a stack of coins already piled beside her plate although her meal had only just come . |
| 10 | There are occasions when the relationship between Voight 's big , blond , likeable dimwit , ludicrously decked out in cowboy gear , and Dustin 's small , greasy-haired , pallid , crippled down-and-outer is touchingly and humorously portrayed , particularly the moment when Buck 's face lights up on seeing an unshaven Ratso eating alone in a diner . |
| 11 | This is a formidable task even for a human navigator , but as we have found out in the past few years , the bees ' trigonometric adjustments are perfectly mindless , depending only on a memory of the Sun 's azimuth relative to the bee 's goal on the previous trip ( or day ) and an extrapolation of the Sun 's current rate of azimuth movement . |
| 12 | In the face of a petition such as this , backed by the signatures of 105 of Stockport 's most eminent and respected citizens , the Goldsmiths were in an awkward position , which they decided to resolve by re-reading Sir Edmond 's will , to see what the Founder himself had intended : a classical school ( teaching Greek and Latin ) , without fees or social distinctions , but depending only on a willingness to learn . |
| 13 | In commissioning St Paul 's , Covent Garden , the Earl of Bedford is reputed to have told his architect , Inigo Jones , that he wished the building to resemble a barn , and the interior of the church was indeed extremely simple , consisting only of a chancel and a nave without arcades . |
| 14 | It is to set up an ancillary file with the records in sequential key order and each record consisting only of a count field . |
| 15 | ‘ Fancy me working in a library again , ’ he said , one hand resting idly on a card index . |
| 16 | One sequence , filmed in Maidenhead , showed Crawford , dressed up in a fireman 's uniform , peddling furiously on a bike in an attempt to catch up with the engine . |
| 17 | Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly . |
| 18 | – I dare say that when I strip the tank down in the future I 'll find a mixed colony lurking somewhere in a corner ! |
| 19 | Spin out also occurs after landing badly from a jump . |
| 20 | Gurder was lurking suspiciously in a patch of shadow by the door when they came past , arms and legs going like pistons . |
| 21 | In contrast walking slowly into a room may indicate reticence or apprehension . |
| 22 | Later that evening , in a town many miles north of Weatherbury , a small white shape could be seen walking slowly along a path beside a large building . |
| 23 | I can remember from my recording days walking all around a sting quartet , for example , to locate the perpetrator of odd sniffs or swishes of silk sleeve lining to see if they could be eliminated in some tactful way — often without success . |
| 24 | It was happening only to a minority . |
| 25 | In the coffee bar she and Susan were laughing together at a story in the newspaper . |
| 26 | It follows that a singularity may normally be considered as occurring only at a boundary of space-time . |
| 27 | If you are driving alone in a car , do not stop to pick up hitch-hikers , always lock all your doors if you are sitting in a parked car and do not roll down the window to give a suspicious looking stranger directions . |
| 28 | First , the analysis focuses mainly on the textual features of Larkin 's " Talking in Bed " thus only partially highlighting their communicative value in the author-reader interaction and , as a result , re-proposing the formalist idea of foregrounding only with a veneer of novelty . |
| 29 | Minnis decided to do something for others who might similarly be afflicted which resulted in the Kenilworth Club and the PGL contributing annually to a fund . |
| 30 | Glancing about the big , lofty room , he saw an elderly merchant snoring gently in a corner , hands folded over his well-rounded belly . |