Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-washable papers just need brushing down or rubbing with stale bread or a soft rubber . |
| 2 | In this sense of the term , regionalism is a view from the centre looking out and suffers from similar tensions to those faced by would-be planners . |
| 3 | Certainly , it is usually more comfortable for the salesperson to call upon old contacts , but the nature of much industrial selling is that , because product life is long , sustained sales growth depends upon searching out and selling to new customers . |
| 4 | I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice |
| 5 | Plateosaurus was a well-known herbivore , occasionally rearing up and sprinting in short bursts on its hind legs , its momentum aided by its long tail . |
| 6 | It 's an invigorating concept because it involves going out and searching for new stories , new voices , new views , the articulate in the community as well as those who have no voice . |
| 7 | The complexity of his image of conspiracy is illustrated literally by his charts which have interlocking arrows shifting back and found from multinational corporations , international banks , and large foundations such as Carnegie and Rockefeller . |
| 8 | I fell in love with snooker when I was about fourteen , but when I got to about sixteen or seventeen , I started travelling around and playing in junior competitions and realized that I was very good . |
| 9 | There is no alternative to sitting down and slogging through long lists of vocabulary . |