Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon ’ s hopes of an FA cup run came crashing down in London last night … |
| 2 | Just a week before stepping down on May 27th , his camp put out a proposal for radical tax changes in the city . |
| 3 | Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski , Poland 's last communist leader ( from 1981 , and Lech Walesa 's predecessor as President , stepping down in December 1990 ) , appeared on Sept. 22 before the Constitutional Accountability Committee , together with 13 communist ex-leaders , on criminal charges over the imposition of martial law in 1981 . |
| 4 | Of course you ca n't put the tails hanging down on bar ten can you . |
| 5 | I have been banging on about South German wheat beers for years , and I am delighted to see that they are becoming more easily available in Britain . |
| 6 | If you work as an in-house solicitor , you will have responsibility for drafting and keeping up to date standard contract documents for use by your employer in the main business — from simple invoice terms and conditions of sale or purchase to those suitable for major projects and transactions and non-standard contracts for individual or complicated projects . |
| 7 | Competition for a sixteenth-century Italian mirror with an architectural gilt and lacquered wood surround pushed bidding up to FFr 95,000 ( £9,700 ; $17,500 ) over twice the estimate set by Tajan and his expert Olivier Le Fuel . |
| 8 | The new dates kick off at Nottingham Rock City on November 28 , with guest DJs Terry Farley and Phil Perry , then go on to Liverpool Royal Court ( with Farley and Dean Thatcher ) December 1 , Brighton The Event ( with Perry and Justin King ) 3 , Manchester International Two ( with Thatcher and Farley ) 15 , Glasgow Plaza ( with Slam DJs and Rockey & Diesel ) 18 , London Charing Cross Road Astoria 20 ( with Farley , Andrew Weatherall , Thatcher , Rockey & Diesel , Glen Gunner and Stripey ) , winding up at Liverpool Royal Court , with Phil Perry , Justin Robinson and Greg Fenton , on December 21 . |
| 9 | The new dates kick off at Nottingham Rock City on November 28 , with guest DJs Terry Farley and Phil Perry , then go on to Liverpool Royal Court ( with Farley and Dean Thatcher ) December 1 , Brighton The Event ( with Perry and Justin King ) 3 , Manchester International Two ( with Thatcher and Farley ) 15 , Glasgow Plaza ( with Slam DJs and Rockey & Diesel ) 18 , London Charing Cross Road Astoria 20 ( with Farley , Andrew Weatherall , Thatcher , Rockey & Diesel , Glen Gunner and Stripey ) , winding up at Liverpool Royal Court , with Phil Perry , Justin Robinson and Greg Fenton , on December 21 . |
| 10 | After the screaming adrenalin of the snatch outside Oxford , they had been penned up day and night in a single house , drinking beer from cans he had bought at motorway service stations , keeping out of sight all the time , hearing callers at the door ring and ring before finally going away without an answer . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the Home Secretary was persuaded that anything which might help towards countering the rising prison population by keeping out of prison those who need not be there was worth trying : |
| 12 | Is not the difficulty that the Home Secretary is incapable of keeping in prison those people who should be and keeping out of prison those things which should not be ? |
| 13 | He was very much the prime reason for Palace 's success in climbing out of Division Four in 1960–61 and Johnny 's 30 League goals for us that season remain Palace 's post-war scoring record for a single season to this day . |
| 14 | These units would consist of three specially trained officers , driving around in Rover 827s , with each unit armed with two self-loading carbines and three handguns . |
| 15 | Two applications for the building fronting on to Bondgate one for a pub and first floor flat and the other for offices were submitted . |
| 16 | Looking down towards Arc 2000 , the course appears almost vertical and very long . |
| 17 | In Bali we have barbets , fruit-thrushes and woodpeckers ; on passing over to Lombok these are seen no more , but we have an abundance of cockatoos , honeysuckers and brush-turkeys which are equally unknown in Bali or any island further west . |
| 18 | Picking up after T two M. |
| 19 | The number of G- and H-grade district nurses should be cut nationally by 50% , saving up to £40 million , the HS Management Executive has recommended . |
| 20 | Laker 's liquidators had taken the opportunity under American law to pursue an anti-trust suit , seeking up to £1 billion in damages against British Airways and others , claiming that through ‘ predatory ’ fare-cutting they had driven Laker out of business . |
| 21 | VIRGIN is teaming up with Blockbuster International to set up a chain of international mega-stores . |
| 22 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it is teaming up with said it was teaming up with Telstra International , the international arm of Telecom Australia , and Benpres of the Philippines , to conduct a feasibility study into forming a new company to expand the telephone service in the Philippines . |
| 23 | And another thing — your sailors all seem very small to me , because I 've been used to looking up at people twenty metres tall . ’ |
| 24 | To the Manor now , where things may be looking up for Oxford United . |
| 25 | It can save a large office or factory thousands of pounds in wiring costs : lights and heaters no longer need individually-wired switches costing up to £50 each . |
| 26 | Queen Margaret College yesterday announced plans for a major expansion on to a new campus , costing up to £10 million and aimed at carrying the former domestic science school to the size required for university status . |
| 27 | Sixty seven of the pleadings bundle which are the further and better particulars this year and you can see that er looking back to page sixty six , what the plaintiffs have been asked to state was to give particulars of the change in financial position which had been outlined to Mr on the telephone and er your Lordship will see first of all that in answer eighty little A , there is a reference to er a letter of the twenty seventh of February nineteen ninety two which was a letter from the plaintiff 's solicitors to the defendant 's solicitors which , this is been incorporating in the front or ought to be in the bible , erm I do n't think it has been but there are copies if I can hand your Lordship it was missed out in error I am sorry . |
| 28 | Well er , summer term er , looking back at year ten erm is work 's experience a , they 're writing that owing to personal statements and end of summer term |
| 29 | Whenever in relation to a loved person , idealized place or personal indulgence I find myself pushing out of mind some disagreeable thought , its relevance ( as distinct from its importance ) is not in doubt ; it is enough that it does spontaneously move me against what I have decided for . |
| 30 | The Irish Times on Oct. 26 published a taped interview , dating back to May 1990 , in which Lenihan admitted he had made such a call . |