Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | He swam , keeping up with Nails ' feet , gulping , coughing . |
| 2 | Over the coming months , the cuts in interest rates since last September will be filtering through to homeowners ' pockets , and this should help to lift consumer confidence , Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the CBI 's distributive trades panel , said yesterday . |
| 3 | Fitting in to others ' expectations , e.g. spouse , friends or colleagues . |
| 4 | When I came off , I felt I needed to sort of keep in touch , sort of speaking to people that know what 's going on and know what 's going on in ex-users ' heads , y'know . |
| 5 | A new industry is growing up around investors ' urgent needs for fast , accurate and systematized management of financial data . |
| 6 | It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers , but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists ' houses and smashing their windows . |
| 7 | Production had been building up at Courtaulds ' $85 million plant near Mobile , Alabama , since June , 1992 . |
| 8 | erm I remember a few years ago when there was a great panicky shutting down of teachers ' training colleges . |
| 9 | Those who do find their ten-year-olds coming back from friends ' birthday parties where the highlight was a showing of a grisly movie like Freddy 's Revenge . |
| 10 | I noted last week , while I hung like the average orang-outang from a strap in a train on the London underground , gazing about at travellers ' knitteds , that many of them had cuffs rolled up . |
| 11 | Dutch outfit Uniface ‘ has a good message — it 's the same as ours , ’ says Zambonini , part prompting the smartening up of Cognos ' GUI capabilities and user-friendliness in version 7 . |
| 12 | Working out of members ' houses , Media , Technical , Finance , Fund Raising and liaison sub groups embarked upon an information spreading programme . |