Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But passengers pursued me along the road , gathering up my garments and vowing aloud never to succumb to the pleas of their offspring for riding lessons . |
| 2 | And that would be that : thousands of years of generation succeeding generation , unable to learn from the experience of the past and dying too soon to benefit from the present . |
| 3 | It is also a mark of the wavering course the Tories have pursued , hopping uncertainly from blue-rinsed stage set to matey bar stool to Mr Major 's rediscovered soapbox , but seldom pausing long enough to get across the gravity of their message . |
| 4 | The dry slope was dotted with rabbits — some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes , others pushing farther down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed . |
| 5 | Depth is half the game in lock-picking ; the other half is getting enough leverage for the turn , since even a proper pick has no shaft going right through to rest on the end ward like a real key . |
| 6 | Am I not supposed to be going somewhere tomorrow to enquire about something or ? |
| 7 | Well last Sunday it seemed to be going quite nicely to start with , trying to think what it was , communion |
| 8 | I feel I am bowling well enough to play for England again , though Ian probably was a bit unlucky . |
| 9 | It may be a spaceship , although it is moving too slowly to arrive at a star . |
| 10 | The reduction in child pedestrian fatalities may not therefore be quite what it seems , having perhaps more to do with parental sacrifice of the freedom of movement of their children than with any tangible gains in traffic safety . |
| 11 | I 'd say what we can see is some of that heat surviving long enough to escape through a cave mouth , ’ she said to Ace . |
| 12 | okay , okay erm yeah although normally you could do something like that while you can do that by phone you can call up and say yes we 're coming definitely just to get in touch and say it . |
| 13 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 14 | I jumped out of the car , still not knowing quite how to argue with those toughs a bare twenty yards away , until I arrived ; but the sickening sight settled my course of action . |
| 15 | I was learning very fast to walk in the opposite direction . |
| 16 | Yeah , I mean I do n't know how powerful they were that , I mean he were n't , he were n't belting on those but there was , he was playing loud enough to appreciate with its own you know |
| 17 | She felt her own breathing slow down to accord with Marcus 's respiration , and she could feel , perhaps even hear , the others also breathing in unison . |
| 18 | When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family . |
| 19 | She lay back against the seat , her eyes closed , trying desperately not to react to his indifference . |
| 20 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |
| 21 | Folly shook her head , trying resolutely not to think of what might have been . |
| 22 | That 's a laugh ! she thought miserably , trying hard not to listen to the quiet voice at the back of her head which seemed to be suggesting that she might , even after all this time , still be in love with her husband . |
| 23 | The survival I had in mind was more huddling with a broken leg under a rock in the snow , trying hard not to die of exposure until some pals bring the Mountain Rescue team . |
| 24 | They took great care and were concentrating on a small area , trying hard not to tread on the bones . |
| 25 | Entitled ‘ The Boy With The Thorn In His Side ’ , it saw Morrissey 's deliberately obvious autobiographical lyric sliding neatly over to flow from Marr 's continually inventive mind . |