Example sentences of "the [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hated the kitchen and the elegantly curving staircase and the Egyptian rugs on the stone floor of the hall . |
| 2 | The main maser features may have originated from the slowly rotating disk or from the outflow gas near the galactic nucleus . |
| 3 | Choose the best linking word and complete these sentences with information from the story . |
| 4 | 1 Choose the best linking word and complete these sentences with information from chapters 1–7 . |
| 5 | After which , I decided to get into the leather producing industry rather than the purely merchanting business and I joined as a director of the main board . |
| 6 | I spun into the spotlight with arms raised , smile flashing , galloped down the stairs , trying not to look down , across the stage , bowing like a courting duck to the boxed panel en route , along the promontory jutting out into the midst of the wildly cheering audience and , as the extravagant applause began at last to subside , heard myself say : |
| 7 | It proved impossible to block the jets of spindrift which sought us with every gust of the noisily strengthening wind and settled on our Gore-Tex bivvy-bags , making them ineffective unless constantly shaken clear . |
| 8 | Thus , for example , inclusion of the frequently occurring item and , which shows high frequency deletion , skews the data considerably ; for this reason , Labov excluded and from his original study of final stop deletion ( Labov 1980 : xvi ) . |
| 9 | The continuously falling price and increasing power of desk-top computers has led to their widespread availability and use . |
| 10 | They were alone with the silently hurtling river and the great , gross wound it had made in this bank , curls of dark-red soil peeled back and rolling downhill , and a tangle of uprooted broom bushes . |
| 11 | It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath . |
| 12 | The actively hunting wolf and jumping spiders show little dimorphism and similar adult life styles , whereas the sedentary orb web-building spiders and the similarly sessile ( yet webless ) crab spiders have males that are much smaller and much more mobile than their respective females . |