Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ash which had been falling on St Pierre since the beginning of May 1902 continued to accumulate , sifting down softly to cover the ruins of St Pierre in a grey pall and burying many of the bodies that still lay in the debris . |
| 2 | Even that auguste paper , the T and A , in the editorial , recently stated , we can not afford the extravagance of going along just to see the party , just to be at the party . |
| 3 | Anyway he was at home that day , home for lunch , and he and Beryl were actually sitting at the table , talking as it happened about going down soon to take a look at the Hall , when Adam came in . |
| 4 | Would it not be more prudent to say something interesting about her stamp collection before going out quietly to buy a simple cookbook . |
| 5 | Do n't worry about going out there to give the greatest performance of any particular speech and then come away depressed because you know you 've done it badly . |
| 6 | On his previous appearance at the Berkshire course in December he won the valuable SGB Chase , staying on well to beat the luckless Minnehoma . |
| 7 | He slept well that night , getting up early to climb the wet , mildewed stairs to the top of the church tower where he saw the stars clear in the skies , studying their alignment before they faded with the dawn . |
| 8 | The good old pre-Taylor Report surge occured , I was flung about fifteen foot in the air , the soap box splintered , my dad acrobatically caught me in his teeth , and this big evil looking bloke got a nail in his leg from the now flattened soapbox.It was better than staying up late to watch an American Werewolf in London.The rest is history , and I 've been going ever since . |
| 9 | Obviously you will have to remove most of them eventually , at about 1″ , but by then you should have at least two more broods coming along behind to maintain the colony . |
| 10 | In my log I had mentioned cutting in especially to see the fall . |
| 11 | Having achieved this , the camera can then pull back to a wider view and re-establish the general scene before closing in again to continue a probe of the setting and its activities . |
| 12 | The physiotherapist usually has several pillows available to support the patient , plus a wedge cushion , which is a foam support measuring about 2 feet ( 60 cm ) long , 2½ feet ( 76 cm ) wide , 6 inches ( 15 cm ) deep at the top , tapering down lengthwise to form the wedge shape . |
| 13 | Everybody remembers where they were when JFK was shot and now a new round of ‘ Who Really Killed the President ’ books are coming out soon to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the assassination . |
| 14 | Immediately above us , though , we can see a sprinkle of stars coming out shyly to pepper the desert skies . |
| 15 | It clanged urgently , like a fire-engine dashing towards a disaster , like the ambulance thundering along behind to retrieve the bodies . |
| 16 | For several years we have been leaning over backwards to avoid the use of the forbidden word , instructing the population at large that it is more dead than the dodo and deleting it from our titles with abandon . |
| 17 | I was busy cooking , blissing out on the aroma of cod in a yoghurt and fresh coriander sauce , and was n't really listening , but through the vapours there penetrated the fact that in Derbyshire they were queuing up recently to do a route on Raven Tor which is ‘ easy 8a , ’ in order to get into a book which David Jones has assembled on climbers — particularly those who can climb 8a . |
| 18 | This inspired a mini revival by the Quakers and John Weldon hit the post at the other end , with Peter Lentinue following up only to put a simple chance wide of the post . |
| 19 | WIRRAL Panthers trailed 4-0 before hitting back superbly to gain a thrilling 5-4 win over Glenavon in the Wallasey Junior League Under 12 division . |