Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 2 | ‘ Anything — just as long as it contains a strong dose of alcohol ! ’ he told her crisply , continuing to stand with his back to her , frowning down at the irritatingly silent machine . |
| 3 | Secondly , the championship itself was especially rich in first-class drivers : Ferrari , his chief rivals , had Niki Lauda and Clay Regazzoni as its main drivers ( with Reutemann filling in for the grievously injured Lauda at Monza ) , and Lauda , far more than Hunt , was at the very peak of his form , the peak of Lauda 's form being , together with Alain Prost 's , the summit of racing artistry . |
| 4 | He smiled as the life went out in him , looking up at the already transparent Monster . |
| 5 | Looking back on the almost thirty-year-long era of the series , one does not automatically think of these essential mammerial features of the femme fatale when talking about Miss Sims . |
| 6 | He twirled about , looking back down the dimly lit corridor . |
| 7 | I 'm looking out at the moodily lit bathroom and wondering what I would do if I suddenly saw William appear out there , flight bags in hand , a Surprise , honey , I 'm home ! look on his face . |
| 8 | Lennox also hit back at critics , who claim he should have avoided the dangerous Ruddock and hidden himself away for a world title shot , snapping : ‘ I know the British fight fans will respect me for going in against the best instead of facing an easy touch . |
| 9 | Donna moved close to it , peering in at the finely sculpted features , momentarily distracted by the sheer artistry of the effigy . |
| 10 | PJ , however , is lining up with the very best . |
| 11 | The first sees Dawn Milligan 's Valentinos Joy , drawn favourably in trap two after winning its last two opens at Sunderland , lining up against the highly respected Belle Vue dog No Joe Soap ( trap 4 ) and Brough Park 's Movealong Sharp ( 3 ) . |
| 12 | It 's very amusing , and you 've explained it amusingly to us , but er , there 's a lot of truth , I think in er , what you say and er how can we , er make the best of these unwelcome guests who insist on turning up at the most inopportune times , when we 're trying to enjoy ourselves . |
| 13 | Yes , that 's it some odd nights we was on our way home from work , it 's going up to the even when we 're on earlies and and weekends we can go there ca n't we ? |
| 14 | Growing up in the more liberal atmosphere of secularist nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s , it was easy to forget the vigour of Islam . |
| 15 | The field for the 1986 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was the strongest the race had offered for years , adding up to the most valuable collection of bloodstock ever assembled fur a single race in Europe . |
| 16 | I 'm going out on the not a special exit but a normal exit tomorrow yeah ? |
| 17 | As you can see , unless you feel that there is something suspect about the property , such as an extension which you feel may be badly constructed , or it is very old ( say , 18th century ) it is really not worth paying out for the more in-depth survey in the initial stages , which costs twice as much as the ordinary valuation survey . |
| 18 | Coburn wrote his first four part storyline in two sections , starting with the quest for fire plot , which he named ‘ The Tribe of Gum ’ before going back to the very first episode , which had to be a more collaborative effort with the Script-Editor and the Producers . |
| 19 | Well going back to the very first meeting that we had |
| 20 | Now going back to the maybe |
| 21 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 22 | Then she went through and threw herself on the comfortable cool silk bedcover , and lay in luxury , gazing up at the gently rotating white fan . |
| 23 | Before moving on to the more advanced aspects of wave riding let us consider what should happen in the first attempts . |
| 24 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 25 | If we were to construct a ‘ ladder ’ of non-fatal offences , starting with the most serious and moving down to the least serious , the offence of attempted murder should be placed at the top . |
| 26 | However , despite the best efforts of the BBC and other giant mass publishing houses to clog the best-seller lists with the epitome of semi-literate publishing , literacy keeps breaking through in the most unlikely places , and nearly always from American rather than British programmes . |
| 27 | But it 's a stonker , kicking off with the memorably camp spoken intro ‘ Future Legend ’ ( ‘ This ai n't rock'n'roll — this is Genocide ! ’ ) and never looking back through its mixture of theatrical lyricism ( get ‘ We Are The Dead ’ and ‘ Candidate ’ ) and chiming guitar rockers , including the classic , near-six minute title track and the oft-resuscitated ‘ Rebel Rebel ’ . |
| 28 | But it 's a stonker , kicking off with the memorably camp spoken intro ‘ Future Legend ’ ( ‘ This ai n't rock'n'roll — this is Genocide ! ’ ) and never looking back through its mixture of theatrical lyricism ( get ‘ We Are The Dead ’ and ‘ Candidate ’ ) and chiming guitar rockers , including the classic , near-six minute title track and the oft-resuscitated ‘ Rebel Rebel ’ . |
| 29 | But despite flying back to the more forgiving climate of Cairns , his fever showed no signs of leaving him . |
| 30 | I was flying back on the 9am British Airways shuttle from the EC Summit on Saturday morning . |