Example sentences of "[adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Or would it be a sign of still greater maturity for their staff to go on contributing to a national system , a system in which the collaboration of the entire academic community could raise standards higher and judge quality more surely ? |
| 2 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 3 | These redundancies are necessary if we are to maintain the business and carry on trading as a viable operation , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Murdoch McKillop , joint receiver from accountants Arthur Andersen , said the 1,600 job losses at the five UK plants had to made ‘ to maintain the business and carry on trading as a viable operation ’ . |
| 5 | It would appear they carried on trading from a different address some time beyond that date , though exactly when they stopped has yet to be established . |
| 6 | Inside FI , it was known that Emerson could have gone on driving for a major team and many thought it a pity that he had not stuck to doing what he knew best . |
| 7 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 8 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 9 | He came in running like a fat sow , his uniform 's half burned off his fucking back . ’ |
| 10 | But I would hope , I mean it has given me the the wish to go on living in a similar kind of situation . |
| 11 | Appearing on the tape proved too much of a millstone for most bands and The Wedding Present were the only ones that carried on developing at a reasonable pace . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There is currently another ‘ Al Jolson ’ in Glasgow who would be better off singing in a silent movie , so it is important to remember that there was only ever one real ‘ Al ’ , and he regaled Glasgow with ‘ Mammy ’ and the rest in real sound for a six-week run . |
| 14 | With food around , surfaces should bc as practical as possible : choose flooring which will not show crumbs and can be mopped up easily ; sideboards should bc provided with protective covers if they are not heatproof ; traditional polished tables might look good , but with children around , you may be better off going for a heatproof , scrubbable surface which can be wiped over quickly ; upholstery should be washable ; wallpaper need not be as tough as the vinyl-coated varieties . |
| 15 | That it goes on moving in a straight line , rather than in circles , followed from what Descartes described as the immutability and simplicity of the conserving operation . |
| 16 | Good place , Iceland , you can spend lots of cash on accommodation and finish up smelling like a boiled egg . |
| 17 | John phoned him up looking for a bass player and Cliff gave him my number . |
| 18 | It was not enough that Phoebe should turn up looking like a manual worker — ( 'But , for God 's sake , Maggie , I am a manual worker' ) — and wearing a button on her overalls which said ‘ This facility is under threat from rate-capping , ’ which made boys on buses make obscene jokes ; she also had to take on the maths teacher . |
| 19 | However , although phase space volume on average contracts in a dissipative system , so that trajectories passing through a large volume of phase space end up passing through a smaller volume , this does not mean that distance ( or separation ) is also contracting . |
| 20 | The young office worker in a safe sedentary job may well take up rock-climbing as a dangerous , physically exacting antidote for the dull occupational part of his life . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | First take-offs are a bit hairy , and despite the instructor 's words of caution everyone ends up running behind a wildly-accelerating aircraft gently but surely swerving to the left . |
| 23 | But once the defector has been squeezed dry of all useful information he will end up sitting in a bare office in Dzerzhinsky Square , the KGB headquarters , with nothing to do but sift through material from his country . |
| 24 | After a short time working for his father he moved to a tool-making factory in Birmingham , where he took up bookmaking in a small way , by collecting bets on his motor bicycle . |
| 25 | I 'll end up talking to a blank space — as usual ! ’ |
| 26 | Most hobbyists , however , usually end up investing in a rechargeable resin that is effective and easy to use ; the original and best-known resin cartridge is the Nitragon . |
| 27 | Uma Thurman stars as a hitch-hiker who ends up working at a pansexual beauty ranch , where she joins fellow workers in rebelling against the owners and their male-servicing feminine hygiene products . |
| 28 | ‘ I never thought I 'd end up working for a bossy woman . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Highly talented designers end up working in a creative vacuum ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |