Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They collided with the corridor wall , Cardiff still hanging on to Rohmer 's wrist . |
| 2 | Touching down on Luqa 's main runway , heading east and sitting on the port side of the aircraft , the aviation-oriented visitor to the Island is drawn to a distinctive sight within the village of Kirkop , just of the Airport 's southern perimeter road , three fins ! |
| 3 | After touching down at Antigua 's V C Bird airport , the party boarded a Carib Air airplane to the nearby island of Nevis , where the party will stay at the ‘ spartan ’ 16-room Montpelier Plantation Inn . |
| 4 | Yet he certainly taught the relativity of earthly authority , and even that by his bringing in of God 's kingdom the Mosaic law and Temple cult ceased to be final . |
| 5 | Her dark-clad arm now overlapped the armrest , a loop of sleeve hanging down on Alice 's side . |
| 6 | The Act was a success , although the ‘ particulates ’ ( mainly soot ) raining down over Britain 's cities had anyway been gradually decreasing since the 1920s . |
| 7 | Since the new rule was rubber stamped last Monday , the blows raining down upon racing 's legislators in Portland Square , London , have come from fairly predictable sources . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll go , ’ sobbed Perdita , and , leaping on to Hermia 's back , she clattered off down the drive . |
| 9 | Glendenen probably remembers the match best for having to face a 14-ball opening over from Essex 's former Hampshire paceman Steve Andrew , who currently has a fractured shoulder . |
| 10 | I go back from , I 'm driving over to Brenda 's and I 'm thinking , , and I really am , I 'm driving along , you know like wha when you 're in the car by yourself and everything 's turning over in your head |
| 11 | On Friday Peskin , before jetting off to Florida 's Disney World , successfuly completed the rescheduling of £80 million of debt due to expire over the next six months . |
| 12 | One of the snakes topples head over heels , inadvertently banging up against Laverne 's calf muscle . |
| 13 | He swam , keeping up with Nails ' feet , gulping , coughing . |
| 14 | There were shocked protests but the argument degenerated into a disgruntled murmur as people reflected that to cross Riley might mean ending up as Harbury 's assistant on the Girlie patrol . |
| 15 | It is also a ground for compulsory winding up under s 122(1) ( e ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 16 | kept checking up on people 's like erm capabilities as well instead of getting on with his own job he kept checking up on their them all as well . |
| 17 | Walking back to Rebecca 's cluttered desk , she set to work . |
| 18 | She herself had spent the remainder of the previous week keeping out of David 's way as much as possible . |
| 19 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | " And taken a knife to them , " Graham said , looking down at Slater 's legs and shrugging his arm free of the light grip which held it . |
| 22 | Up there on the top step , looking down on Lucenzo 's bright fair head , she felt as if she stood on the brink of a great change in her life . |
| 23 | From his own height of well above six feet , Clive Fairbrother was always surprised to find himself looking down on Richard 's imperiously poised head . |
| 24 | ‘ You at least have confidence in him , ’ Owen said , thoughtfully frowning down at Hotspur 's vehement hand . |
| 25 | Maybe erm maybe our culture has particular metaphors , particular ways of understanding ways of human distress and it seems that very often when people have a rather non-specific distress these days , I mean it 's very common to find that erm counsellors , professionals , will be looking in into people 's backgrounds , looking into people 's backgrounds for evidence of child sex abuse . |
| 26 | He was always getting up to wander down the aisles , interfering with the card school or listening in to people 's personal stereos . |
| 27 | Fitting in to others ' expectations , e.g. spouse , friends or colleagues . |
| 28 | Picking up on Herschensohn 's ‘ bad seed ’ theory , the federal Centers for Disease Control announced that investigators were being dispatched to investigate the ‘ epidemiology ’ of the riots . |
| 29 | But just picking up on Mr 's point . |
| 30 | Or is it women who are calling the shots — weary of living up to men 's fantasies , preferring instead to watch actresses they can identify with , both physically and emotionally ? |