Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [num] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine walking out one day and thinking about the light . |
| 2 | It had been , however briefly , a time when her body and her mind had fitted together so tidily and wholely that , waking up one morning and deciding that it was time to go back to Oxford and visit her mother , was neither traumatic nor casual , but straightforward . |
| 3 | Shelley suddenly swung his luminous face towards me , sat quickly down on a chair , sticking out one leg and resting a hand on his thigh , clearly inviting me to hold the floor awhile . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , he admits to editing out one joke that created some controversy when it appeared in a promotional reel earlier this year . |
| 5 | Graduates were usually destined for mageship at least , but Rincewind — after an unfortunate event — had left knowing only one spell and made a living of sorts around the town by capitalising on an innate gift for languages . |
| 6 | She now moved a few steps backwards and sat down again , straightening out one leg and rubbing it as she did so . |
| 7 | Weighing under seven stone and standing just five feet two inches tall , there have been times when she was dwarfed by her fellow competitors . |
| 8 | One can get some idea about what it means to try to maintain safety by blindfolding even one eye and noting the several changed perspectives . |