Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in trouble later bullying other kids , getting into fights , knocking down all the garbage cans in an alley , pulling fire alarms in her lunch break at school for the thrill of seeing the fire trucks go by , shoplifting . |
| 2 | Who 's been tearing up all the newspaper that the wet wellies were on ? |
| 3 | In a fit of madness I started tearing up all the ad records . ’ |
| 4 | But most of the work is going on actually in the auditorium where they 're stripping out all the wood er and putting in great big holes where they can put the fire exits in . |
| 5 | Er but I think you know , you 've got sort of police walking around all the time , erm it can aggravate things rather than calm them . |
| 6 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 7 | Incidentally , the idea of putting a compass in the seat recess with a seethrough window in the spraydeck is just plain daft ; apart from making you sick , looking down all the time would divert attention from where it matters , the sea . |
| 8 | Be imaginative , brainstorm yourself , writing down all the ideas that come into your head . |
| 9 | For example , the effect of holding in memory a visual pattern made up by randomly filling in half the cells of a matrix ( with either 3 , 4 or 5 cells per side ) did not produce " general activation " in the same way as words were found to do . |
| 10 | Stephen was busy battening down all the shutters and doors with planks of wood and eight-inch nails when she arrived at Crystal Springs . |
| 11 | " I started to feel a revulsion against this desultory wandering over all the departments of knowledge ; I wished to force some limitation on myself so as to probe individual subjects more deeply and thoroughly . |
| 12 | They travel out next week , with their employers picking up all the hotel bills . |
| 13 | I 've cut out the dress , so that 's I 've got to d start doing thingys on that now you know , picking up all the points |
| 14 | One girl starts by picking up all the beads in one hole on her side . |
| 15 | She was taken in by Maggie Taylor and now five month old Teka is fighting fit and lapping up all the attention . |
| 16 | No , it 's soaking up all the bread crumbs . |
| 17 | The next morning , the plan was ready to roll ; Tiphook began snapping up all the TIP stock in sight . |
| 18 | At the line-out he 's not the tallest or the springiest jumper , but yet again he gets his hands on the ball , snapping up all the ricochets . |
| 19 | ‘ I spent hours in the library looking up all the journals I could find — and the thing that kept coming back to me was that even if you had the treatment , there was a chance that the effects of toxoplasmosis on the child might not come out until years later . |
| 20 | Console yourself with the knowledge that the birds are also picking out many a garden pest . |
| 21 | Constantius set out on a determined course of retribution , seeking out all the followers of Magnentius and exacting punishment by execution , imprisonment and confiscation of their estates and wealth . |
| 22 | Armed with computers , the procurement department did its job much faster , reports Larry Skinner , the company 's chief of re-engineering , but it actually took longer for anyone in TI to purchase supplies because filling out all the forms demanded by the procurement department had become so complicated . |
| 23 | He waited a long while , looking out all the time for Caspar . |
| 24 | We rowed eastwards down the river all day , looking round all the time to check that no one was following us . |
| 25 | I do not rule that out completely , but I believe that we should consider the matter carefully before going down such a route . |
| 26 | Throughout the greater part of these districts the supply of water is intimately mixed , the pipes of both companies going down all the streets and into almost all the courts and alleys . |
| 27 | ‘ I think out in detail what I 'm going to do , going down all the possibilities . |
| 28 | Is it that the fraudsters are the only section of society that is going to vote for the Conservatives er at the at the at the next election because certainly er the reputation of the city of London er is going down all the time because of the squalid frauds that are being perpetrated there a and the government is lagging behind er in catching up and in providing an effective regulatory framework er that 's that 's going to deal er with them . |
| 29 | He had spent the past few months noting down all the sightings and rumours of the Bookman 's movements . |
| 30 | To ease my conscience , for every parking I bought an indoor pot plant , so that by now we have a veritable jungle growing along all the window sills , crawling up the walls and wrapping their tendrils around the television set . |