Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A whole range of contributory factors are singled out , and evidence offered , notably on age stratification leading children to be more peer than adult-orientated , and television viewing increasingly dominating their waking lives . |
| 2 | avoiding repeatedly observing your appearance in the mirror . |
| 3 | Delaney took risks , plummeting feet first through the hatchways , and partly breaking his descent with the handrails , falling like a parachutist , rolling instantly deploying his Uzi against … |
| 4 | They , of course , publish the Fodors travel guides , and Stan was sitting here nodding his head in agreement with that . |
| 5 | ’ I 'd be dong exactly this — sitting here laughing my head off . |
| 6 | ‘ Comin' here stealin' our slave labour , ’ bellowed the other shaking his fist at the sky . |
| 7 | I 'm just sitting there thinking your dog 's I used to hate your dog , man . |
| 8 | He did not get up , went on sitting there devouring my face with his black eyes . |
| 9 | Benny could see her mother sitting there stretching her hand out full of what she had been full of for months now : the huge advantages of being able to come home every night by bus . |
| 10 | Like a big ninny sitting there bemoaning your fate . |
| 11 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |