Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking up at the north-facing slope ahead you would see snow and ice and you would tremble , but you would know that coming down on the other side , you would walk in sunshine , through green grass and sweet-smelling flowers . |
| 2 | What retrenchment we experienced was from below , which illustrates that working daily with the field-worker was a source of greater sensitivity to ordinary policemen and women than was the idea of research to senior officers . |
| 3 | These , although they must be travelling very fast initially , seem to move quite slowly , twisting and turning lazily in the air and tracing out elegant parabolic paths as they fall back to earth round the vent . |
| 4 | Some are undoubtedly produced when ropy strands or shreds of sticky lava are flung up out of the vent , twisting and turning slightly in the air before falling back to earth ; these are known as rope or ribbon bombs , and they may be as much as one metre long . |
| 5 | Within seconds each man was twisting and skidding away from the attackers . |
| 6 | My favourite of them is the Power Toolbox , a way of taking program launching and switching out of the Program Manager altogether and putting your own buttons on the desktop . |
| 7 | He enjoyed the camaraderie of police life and spent several minutes going about the murder squad office , exchanging pleasantries with officers he did not know and catching up with the latest news . |
| 8 | Well the answer is yes but of course landing and taking off on a road is one thing , being able to operate is another one because clearly one needs er fuel , weapons , ground crew and the like but landing on a road in itself is is not difficult . |
| 9 | Just for a moment , standing by the window , dropping the edge of the curtain he had lifted and turning back towards the cot , Adam saw the picture again , saw it with an awful clarity on the darkness before his eyes . |
| 10 | When they hit the ground , they may stop abruptly , embedding themselves still glowing , fuming and sizzling slightly in the loose ash ; or they may bounce off , to leap down the steep sides of the cone in a series of great bounds , developing a rapid spin as they do so , and whirring downhill like cannonballs , ending up in a rattling shower of small stones at the bottom . |
| 11 | Scientific explanations , scientists like M. Hammerton inform us , huffing and puffing away like the good little , non-pontificating rational beings they are , are completely objective phenomena , and value-free , which is even more to the point . |
| 12 | His wet , cold body was aching and calling out for a hot meal and warm bed . |
| 13 | People moving , people speaking , children laughing and playing somewhere in the distance . |
| 14 | The third step is cracked and breaking away at the edge . |
| 15 | Steve Thomas was attacked while walking home from a night club , but can remember little else of the incident . |
| 16 | One police spokesman was reported as saying shortly after the hearings that ‘ complaints were inevitable when officers ‘ got involved ’ with demonstrators ’ . |
| 17 | If already in hand-to-hand combat then he wo n't move away , but counts as charging again in the next round ( the shaman dashes around with insane vigour much to the astonishment of his foes ) . |
| 18 | But it , as I have suggested , the structures of identity formation at work here are fundamental to our existing cultural forms , they can not be considered as stemming only from the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 19 | It follows that a singularity may normally be considered as occurring only at a boundary of space-time . |
| 20 | ‘ So there was no need to have anything highly scented or smelling strongly on the table , ’ said Henry at once . |
| 21 | It also allows the diarrhoetic person no time for listening or taking in from the other . |
| 22 | There is no mention in the Project booklet of the use of the school library resource centre itself and it may be that for this age group in their first extended piece of work in the school it was felt that moving out of the year base into another area involved more planning , supervision or simple hazard than the staff were ready to face . |
| 23 | The only other course of action for a tree-nester is to hop about in the tree , squawking and screeching noisily in an attempt to break the attacker 's concentration . |
| 24 | Eight individuals living and working together in the confines of a ninety feet steel hull for three months and still parting as friends at the end of the trip says a lot for compatibility of the cutter crews . |
| 25 | Working , living and playing together in the knowledge that this may continue for many years to come increases the pressure to conform to the wishes of the group . |
| 26 | The ideas pushing and tumbling out in a fever of words that were scarcely intelligible . |
| 27 | Corbett bathed in the guest-house 's one and only tub before dressing and going down to the buttery for ale and a bowl of bread and fish boiled in milk . |
| 28 | Shouting and blasting all over the loud speakers ! |
| 29 | Meanwhile , plenty of new flats are being built and coming on to the market : developers have rushed to get their projects completed in the hope of selling before demand dried up . |
| 30 | In this way , with one small rock fall following another , the flow continues to advance , very slowly , clanking and rattling forward like a shuffling slag heap . |