Example sentences of "[adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |
| 2 | David began to think that it might be possible to go on living in the same house as Julia and Anthony without either betraying himself or suffering unendurable frustration . |
| 3 | We would go on loving in the same old way … |
| 4 | Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs . |
| 5 | A girl who is very tall for her age may fear that she will go on growing at the same rate indefinitely , while a boy who is shorter than his mates of the same age may be afraid that he will be permanently undersized . |
| 6 | In that case , shopkeepers and manufacturers might be prepared to drop their profit margins , absorb the tax and go on selling at the same price . |
| 7 | If you were back in your own house and subject to the same old strains you might end up getting into the same sort of scrape again . |
| 8 | Er I mean that goes back again to the articles which you might have about the way that parents talk to their children , and you quite often find that then very very quickly the children grow up speaking in a same way as the parent of that sex talked to the them . |
| 9 | It made him feel grown up sitting at the same table as real university students ; engineers and agricultural science students , law or medicine , they had all sat and studied around the Hegarty dining table while young Frank was working for his Intermediate and his Leaving Certificate . |
| 10 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 11 | Some never thought of planning their lives and went on dancing until no more work was offered . |
| 12 | I sat around picking over the few facts I knew . |
| 13 | I carry on talking with the same chattiness and speed that got Jane Austen 's heroines into trouble . |
| 14 | Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’ |
| 15 | did you carry on working at the same place ? |
| 16 | ‘ Some even have to carry on sleeping in the same bed — back to back in angry silence . |