Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seen on the ground the Piper Apache is a chubby little bird , somewhat dated and rather sedate looking in comparison with its younger cousin , the Twin Comanche , but there is an impression of dependability and a promise of comfort . |
| 2 | Blues veterans Jimmie Rodgers and Otis Rush both created their own blues magic and surprise guest Buddy Guy stunned the audience with some of his best and most fiery playing to date . |
| 3 | The legislation regarding rabbits is extremely different according to whether the rabbit is in a laboratory , is a pet , is being kept for meat or is wild . |
| 4 | As the duties were light and rapidly becoming merely nominal owing to the continued refusal of the war to start , Charles fetched Clarissa from her theatre nearly every night to take her dancing at one famous rendezvous or another . |
| 5 | The second major set of structures start from the late Palaeozoic ( though may also be much older ) and relate to the collisions and less obvious splitting along the line of the Mediterranean/Tethys . |
| 6 | Man , naturally slothful according to Malthus , only spread into more adverse climes thanks to the local scarcities of food entailed by his excess fertility ; with later settlers always eventually victorious because made doubly energetic in struggling with both rigorous conditions and previous settlers . |
| 7 | The feeling of Bob-ness in the air here is enhanced by his apparently constant musing on Bob 's utterances . |
| 8 | That 's why it was so great working with Freddie and the band ; there was always something unusual to work guitar into , and usually it was in some weird key as well . |
| 9 | It 's so irritating having to constantly stop and put your kagoul on , and then stop 40 seconds later to take it off again . |
| 10 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 11 | While it is relatively simple to establish moving water in the garden , it can be somewhat hazardous deciding upon the necessary equipment without a little background knowledge or the advice of a fellow gardener with a similar feature . |
| 12 | Do n't you remember the last time it was so beautiful going across across at home . |
| 13 | he 's going , so busy looking on what 's going on behind the question that 's being asked , that you never answer the question that you 're being asked in the first place . |
| 14 | I 'm not sure between her and Tony , Tony 's so busy looking into |
| 15 | They could go into the chapel , and the Adam library , and the red drawing-room , and with a bit of luck they 'd be so busy looking at the Chippendale and the Hepplewhite they would n't notice the holes in the rugs . ’ |
| 16 | You 're sometimes so busy looking at the wood that you do n't smell the trees are rotten . ’ |
| 17 | I was so busy looking at the coach . |
| 18 | Everyone 's so busy looking at it they 're not even bothering to try and get on the roundabout . |
| 19 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 20 | Last year this was arranged as usual but I was so busy looking after my guests during the day that I had to rush getting ready for the evening out . |
| 21 | The rope was attached to the tree , the crew set up on the bank , and we got ready to do three or four runs past the camera with Matt and me so busy arguing about baptising the Indians that we could n't see the danger behind us which the audience could see for themselves . |
| 22 | The media , major users of public relations material , loves taking the mickey out of public relations which is so busy working on someone else 's image that they have no time for the image of their own industry . |
| 23 | Now the director — like most people in East Germany — is so busy adapting to the transition to a market economy and to the West German Deutsch Mark than none of his undertakings has been honoured . |
| 24 | There is also implicit criticism of John 's politically committed mother Rosalie ( Olympia Dukakis ) , so busy demonstrating for human rights that she shamefully neglects her son and fails to fill the fridge with enough food for him . |
| 25 | They continued to feed , or stared out on the Zoo not looking in the direction of Minch at all ; while Creggan was so busy staring at Minch in delight and pleasure that he did not notice behind him , in the next-door cage , Slorne stare for the moment at Minch and then swing round and silently resume her vigil at the back top of her cage , looking at the trees and sky . |
| 26 | He 's like a small child who is so busy peering at something that he does n't look where he is going . |
| 27 | Such criteria have , therefore , to be general and highly flexible allowing for sensitivity to people 's aspirations . |
| 28 | Many youngsters have never known the satisfaction of being handed a wage packet and it can be so soul destroying for them . |
| 29 | Much wordy delving into the super-minutiae of fifteenth century iconography , particularly obsessive although informative about the Circumcision , sometimes taking several pages to reach an obvious conclusion , occasionally illuminating , often maddeningly obfuscating . |
| 30 | BUT SUN 's 3RD QUARTER SHOWS ONLY MODEST SLOWING OF GROWTH |