Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ca n't keep goin' on like that fer ever . |
| 2 | ‘ I intend hanging on to junior for a while longer yet , but I 'll let you know . ’ |
| 3 | Then she saw him , hanging on to one of the many bracing beams that ran horizontally across the Lock gates . |
| 4 | Even the Five Nations Championship might appear a little limp after the events of the autumn , so what chance has club rugby of hanging on to any of the converts in the meantime ? |
| 5 | Everyone who is ahead of me is hanging on like crazy to their rung of the ladder . |
| 6 | By the time he came off to a huge ovation , Essex were dawdling along at 99-3 off 36 overs . |
| 7 | Over the eight years of the project the reduction in inequality between different socio.economic groups was consequent upon an improvement in scores attained at the bottom end of the distribution and not the levelling down of those at the top . |
| 8 | In the garage Mr Carbert said he noticed an old rope hanging down from one of the beams . |
| 9 | They also argue that , given Pentos ' current level of borrowings , it is hard to picture Dillons ' expansion keeping up with that of Waterstones , which has the more capacious pockets of W H Smith to support it . |
| 10 | BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR ANY OF THE PRESENT CELLNET OR VODAFONE networks , would-be subscribers should consider what 's in the cellphone pipeline . |
| 11 | Prime Minister Vitold Fokin , however , took the offensive at the parliamentary session on July 3 , condemning attempts by parliament to interfere in government affairs , threatening the resignation of the Cabinet of Ministers , and walking out with all but two of his ministers . |
| 12 | However , perceptions of the benign nature of taxation have begun to change in more recent years , reverting back to those of Clarke and Keynes . |
| 13 | Wings Jeff Hurford and Scott MacKinnon each had a second-half try as Rugby Canada came storming back from 15–0 to 15–13 with outside-half Rob Ross , who provided a penalty and a conversion , just unable to land one more penalty for a long-awaited victory . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think they ought to let them out , walking about like that in those black clothes . |
| 15 | In her opening round of 67 on Thursday , the American made fours at each of the five long holes , and it was the same par fives which served her well yesterday . |
| 16 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 17 | My son , he wrote , moving on to a new page , my son , who is a keen footballer and a passionate supporter of our local team , Brighton and Hove Albion ( the Seagulls ) , was surprised the other day when , looking in on one of the team 's training sessions in the sports pavilion of the University of Sussex , he . |
| 18 | The former , while fitting in with much of popular ideology , is contradicted by current sociological studies of men 's violence ; the latter is more consistent with the evidence of this research . |
| 19 | Eve , picking up on some of Ari 's melancholy without understanding the cause , hugged her as they thundered along the straight , smooth road that led to the city . |
| 20 | On the product front — and picking up on some of the work it did for ACE — the company says an Intel Corp P5-specific SCO Unix kernel is a possibility . |
| 21 | The death's-head symbols leered at her as she moved between them , trying to avoid brushing up against any of them — just in case . |
| 22 | He raised his voice , looking up at one of the security cameras . |
| 23 | We can gain some sense of the distance photography has travelled and the imminent great changes , by looking back to one of the earliest surviving photographic images . |
| 24 | But before it does , the Daily Mirror , along with Carry On creators Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , has been looking back at some of the funniest moments ever to be played out on the big screen . |
| 25 | Before we go a word about tomorrow night 's programme when we 'll be looking back at some of the highlights from the first ten years of Central News . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , last year 's president , Alan Wilcox , Richmond 's Town Clerk , is putting together a bumper centenary brochure looking back at some of the highlights . |
| 27 | Bracken Cottage , which had come to her on Elise 's death , was all very well , but living out in one of the Sherwood Forest villages would have entailed long rush-hour drives twice a day , and already Merrill had gathered that Luke Travis was n't the sort of man to take kindly to excuses about traffic-jams . |
| 28 | They pause , too , about a hundred yards from where the Masai are fanning out around one of the hills . |
| 29 | ‘ If I use my own money to buy a plough , will you supply the horses and let me spend two or three days a week hiring out to those with new lands ? |
| 30 | This was a Greek theatre , hollowed out of the steep mountainside and looking out over one of the finest views in the world , with the sea far below on one side and , in the distance , Mount Etna . |