Example sentences of "of [adv] [v-ing] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flying through the sea breeze front without realising it is a common cause of inadvertently landing downwind and ending up in a hedge . |
| 2 | Instead of just sitting there and quoting all these figures |
| 3 | Make a point of always having more than one project on the go . |
| 4 | He is hunched over , his elbows fused to his knees and his hands pressed flat against the sides of his head , blinkering his downwards stare from the irreconcilable contrast of ever changing outside and never-changing inside . |
| 5 | ‘ The assurances are OK and we have no intention of either looking elsewhere or altering our original itinerary , ’ Smith said . |
| 6 | Kelman ( 1988 ) in particular takes this kind of line , pointing out that those most opposed to the Vietnam war were those who had no chance of actually going there and being in danger . |