Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And his smile , appearing slowly as he looked down at us , gleamed with a whiteness that almost hurt . |
| 2 | Another racking fit of coughing seized him , doubling him over and ending only when he retched up a gush of phlegm and blood . |
| 3 | She heard him returning just as she sat back to admire her handiwork . |
| 4 | He was walking off when I reached out , grabbed him again and slapped him across the head . |
| 5 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 6 | He read to the bottom of the sheet , then turned the page , laughing softly as he read on . |
| 7 | You send it round , what they want training on and it comes back to the manager |
| 8 | I was carried ignominiously between two colleagues back to the car and greeted my wife with the sheepish grin she had been dreading ever since I took up the sport . |
| 9 | On the fault-tolerance front IBM says that Mode 3 substantially cuts the delay between the one machine failing and the other one picking up where it left off ; by the company 's own estimation the switch can take from anywhere between a long 30 seconds to a horribly long five minutes in modes 1 and 2 . |
| 10 | ‘ You could be picking up where he left off . |
| 11 | So it might be possible for a 50-year-old with a heart condition to be acting reasonably if he turned down a job involving more stress and daily travel , whereas a 30-year-old executive with no personal problems who rejected the same offer might forfeit his claim to statutory redundancy pay . |
| 12 | I felt so dizzy looking up that I fell over . |
| 13 | It were nice just to relax and I started smoking again and I packed up last Sunday . |
| 14 | Right next to him , Mr Doran was grinning maniacally as he handed out squishy tomatoes for the parishioners to throw at their young vicar , trapped in the ‘ stocks ’ . |
| 15 | From the start , go right and pick up two crates , now kill the guard and the policeman , get the third crate and travel down the lift , at the bottom go right and kill the policeman , keep going right until you fall off the edge of the platform . |
| 16 | The spokesman added : ‘ The weapon was being discharged , but he must have noticed what was going on because he rang up saying who he was and apologised . |
| 17 | I could n't stop him and I was so frightened that horse , machine and me were going over that I jumped off . |
| 18 | He was red and sweating slightly as he went on . |
| 19 | So when Esquire ask for their 2,000 words next month about the connection between the Croatian Winter Olympics team uniform and Public Enemy , or the brutal point of Michael Barrymore , I can somehow contrive it that I end up writing about how it feels waiting for Maddy 's first smile , about the wonder of her 35th day , about her growing up and me growing up . |
| 20 | You discern my going out and my lying down ; |
| 21 | Granville Again , who was going well when he came down , is the probable favourite . |
| 22 | It was lying here when we come over earlier on . |
| 23 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 24 | ‘ Talking , ’ she said , squatting gracefully as she slipped down his trousers , real pseude trousers , ‘ is not as easy as laughing . ’ |
| 25 | Hutt crept silently into the kitchen , his hands sweating profusely as he closed in on his prey . |
| 26 | In the end the mother found us , grunting softly as she came over , nuzzling the calf and licking its cheek and neck . |
| 27 | going round when its going round . |
| 28 | He glanced at Ray Doyle , and realised that Doyle was conscious and shivering , his teeth chattering violently as he stared up at his colleague . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not going anywhere until I find out what happened , Joe , ’ she warned him , but he was already nodding in agreement . |
| 30 | S er got one lone piece and it 's got a piece of wedge and it 's got another piece sticking up and something sticking out of that piece of branch or something sticking out of that . |