Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The samples were lightly pressed down using a sheet of newspaper . |
| 2 | ( b ) Filing could be either completely or partly broken down using the cost code on each document . |
| 3 | The 160bp DNA fragment was then electroeluted from acrylamide , purified by phenol extraction and the ends filled in using Klenow fragment ( Gibco-BRL ) . |
| 4 | While some women have carried on wearing short at the office , the eye has quickly adapted , and a look that was once considered sharp suddenly looked old fashioned . |
| 5 | While some women have carried on wearing short at the office , the eye has quickly adapted , and a look that was once considered sharp suddenly looked old fashioned . |
| 6 | He was marginally cheered by a sign near the ticket barrier warning that Dogs Must Always Be Carried On Moving Escalators . |
| 7 | Strange as the taste of defeat was , however , Kylie shrugged off the episode and instead carried on looking to the future . |
| 8 | I only accepted this [ methadone ] maintenance course to make sure he went on one , too , because if I had n't , he would have carried on using gear and I could n't have handled that . |
| 9 | Marius and I were too tired to care , so carried on ironing regardless . |
| 10 | Coal , however , between 1779 and 1784 absorbed around 40 per cent of total carrying capacity , the 1.5 million tons carried on coasting vessels in 1779 having trebled by 1814 . |
| 11 | Right , yeah , and he 's carried on printing while the |
| 12 | Motivation was strongest in a democratic group where boys often carried on working even when a leader left the room . |
| 13 | But despite his personal problems , in true show business style Les Dawson always carried on working , hiding his own sadness and suffering to make others laugh . |
| 14 | He had gone up to Magdalen College , asked at the Porters ' Lodge , discovered the grounds were closed ; then just carried on walking over the bridge , around the Plain , and back again down the High . |
| 15 | He caught her arm , stopping her when she would have carried on walking . |
| 16 | ‘ He would have carried on doing things the same way . |
| 17 | She said she really liked it , but would n't have carried on doing it . |
| 18 | Yeah , downstairs , Clara and erm and one just carried on going straight and I got seventeen things that I can eat |
| 19 | Another metre either way , and we 'd have carried on rolling all the way down . ’ |
| 20 | Taylor refuses to say whether Lineker would still be in his team had he carried on playing in England . |
| 21 | The man had collapsed and the vessel had carried on running into the water . |
| 22 | With the way she had carried on smiling , stifling the grief , putting on her brave face to the world ? |
| 23 | The machine had carried on recording when Mrs Bradshaw had used the phone . |
| 24 | But the grown-ups just carried on talking and never even bothered to look up . |
| 25 | If only she had come in shouting ‘ What 's this ? ’ and chucked the lot at him , he would have felt something had been achieved . |
| 26 | Exercises , whether for translation or other kinds of manipulation , can be neatly presented in sentences , with a tick or a mark for each one , and in this way everybody knows where they are going , and how far they have come in developing the necessary formal basis . |
| 27 | The only real progress has come in learning how to drive those evaluation routines faster and faster , thus allowing larger numbers of positions to be examined in the time available . |
| 28 | In nightclubs and pop promo videos , it 's as if the banshees have come down screaming from the catwalk , staggering in their stilettos under the weight of their Max Factor cosmetics and costume jewellery . |
| 29 | Unusually in a debate of this kind , the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) has sat down leaving me with only 22 minutes in which to reply . |
| 30 | One morning when the staff were sat down eating sandwiches , the clock at the adjoining Trinity Hospital chimed the hour , although it hardly chimed — it clanked . |