Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She enjoyed all aspects of life at the salon but , as she was increasingly called upon to show clothes , Constance began to love the opportunities for discreetly showing off . |
| 2 | And John Kelly , of Woolton , says thanks for successfully taking up his dispute over a hotel refund . |
| 3 | In general the practice of searching wrecks for treasure is deplored by the Museum : in most cases no provision is made for properly recording where items were located ; only items of commercial value are salvaged and there is no interest in the wreck as an entity or the long-term conservation issues involved in raising perishable items such as iron and wood from the sea bed . |
| 4 | No need to explain one 's reasons for suddenly looking out of the window . |
| 5 | Do not use a social setting for suddenly coming out with all the reservations you may have or the frustrations you may feel at not having been consulted properly . |
| 6 | It has often been pointed out that in less developed societies , old people were seen as the repository of wisdom needed for daily living as well as for spiritual guidance . |
| 7 | ‘ When you create chances , especially against Hearts , and do n't take them , then you ca n't have any complaints , ’ admitted McLean after literally coming back down to earth . |
| 8 | But after brilliantly turning away Simon Barker 's 23rd-minute header , Kearton had no chance as Sinton followed up . |
| 9 | Last year I had a number of problems after perhaps rising too quickly in 1991 , ’ added Rickardsson , runner-up in the world final two years ago . |
| 10 | At the end of the seventies , after annually spending substantially more than the yearly income , the price for this extravagance was a reduction in the number of staff . |
| 11 | She puts her glass under Teddy 's nose for a refill , drinks her wine , and after audibly gulping down a big mouthful , she raises her glass . |
| 12 | YORKSHIRE cricket is blazing the international trail after always accepting only home-grown talent in the past Aussie paceman Craig McDermott ( above left ) was the first overseas star expected to join the county , but the move fell through and Tendulkar came over from India instead . |
| 13 | After bluntly pointing out the shortcomings of the existing system , the Royal Commission recommended a restructuring in which the criminal and civil work of the High Court would be separated . |
| 14 | She disappeared after mysteriously taking down her Christmas cards from her bedroom wall and going out to meet friends . |
| 15 | Mrs Noah was the traditional peg-shape , as if that was the perfect , the only shape for a Mrs Noah and the maker had adopted it with relief after unsuccessfully trying out a hundred new variants of his own which had not done . |
| 16 | Then , after carefully taking off his heavy rings , he picked each of the tiles up in turn , holding them up by the extreme edge . |
| 17 | Gen. Saulo Ramos was appointed Minister of Justice on Aug. 7 , 1989 , replacing Oscar Dias Corrêa , who had resigned on Aug. 1 after frequently speaking out against mismanagement of the economy and corruption in the administration . |
| 18 | After narrowly averting yet another strike last year , AT&T might easily have decided to treat its relations with the unions as little more than an exercise in damage control . |
| 19 | After completely flushing out all hydrocarbon , the plugs were saturated with a brine of 100 000 ppm NaCl . |
| 20 | He stayed till the last ball before lunch of a gripping third day , when Benjamin yorked him off stump ; his 163 was a remarkable effort after previously recording only four first-class centuries . |
| 21 | After accidentally bringing about the death of his wife and child , he sets up his own suicide . |
| 22 | And I think it 's worth just rehearsing very briefly that history to get an understanding of contemporary federalism . |
| 23 | I thought it was n't worth just sitting around waiting for something to happen and I had already arranged to go to my friend 's house so I went out . |
| 24 | She blamed her mother for thoughtlessly producing so many children . |
| 25 | Basically government can increase or reduce unemployment by increasing labour demands through just handing out more jobs in the sector . |
| 26 | She let the silence go on , and wondered about just getting up and leaving right then without one word , not one word of the torrent foaming in her guts . |
| 27 | Because that 's smashing for just scooping up . |
| 28 | Pleasure boats , but people could use them for just getting around anywhere ? |
| 29 | Like actors remembered as great for just turning up , the moths are recalled as gigantic , vivid images when they were probably just spectral smudges . |
| 30 | For just running away from what I did n't like , instead of trying to change it . |