Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [adv] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave Forbes was waiting and swiftly intercepted D'Arcy before he could meet up again with Roy Bliss . |
| 2 | Fairly early in Take a girl like you , Patrick delivers himself of an unqualified condemnation of women , which is followed by a sentence from the narrator concerning and presumably condemning Patrick 's attitude to Jenny at that stage , as a girl to be taken and left : ‘ He wanted more than his share of her before anybody else had any . ’ |
| 3 | Or has this whole summer for Mansell been a fabrication of what he really felt , a means of getting out of his Ferrari contract by saying he was quitting and then holding Williams to ransom after they had backed themselves into a corner ? |
| 4 | Mahmoud , unlike Owen , had been trained for the job he was doing and sometimes reminded Owen of the fact . |
| 5 | He talked about being scared , started shaking and then begged Mr Davies not to leave him . |
| 6 | Also words from the former England cricket captain Graham Gooch , Nottinghamshire 's Jimmy Smith on basketball and of course the globe trotting and well tanned Martin Fisher from five past seven G M T. |
| 7 | Compiled by Peter Knight ( author of our Squirt Technique series ) and Simon Dawson ( presently writing the Kayak Control series ) , this video introduces squirt paddling and fully complements Peter 's written articles . |
| 8 | The trap in Sam 's boathouse kept intruding and so did Angela Brickell ; the cold threat of khaki water that could rush into aching lungs to bring oblivion and the earthy girl who 'd been claimed back by the earth , eaten clean by earth creatures , become earth-digested dust . |
| 9 | The adventurous plan came so close to working and certainly won Ipswich a host of new admirers . |