Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ) This being Operation Bowery , conducted with HMS Eagle 60 of 64 aircraft successfully landing on Malta — KE ) |
| 2 | The hotel stands on the site of the home of General Hugh Mackay ( 1640–92 ) , who joined the English army in 1660 , serving in France and Holland , eventually returning to England with William of Orange , in the Revolution of 1688 . |
| 3 | Among the more conspicuous were Yolande Pompey , who challenged unsuccessfully for Archie Moore 's world light-heavyweight title in London in 1956 , and Hogan ‘ Kid ’ Bassey , a Nigerian who moved to Liverpool in 1952 , three years later won the Commonwealth featherweight title and , in 1957 , won the world featherweight title , before eventually returning to Nigeria as national boxing coach . |
| 4 | ‘ The suspension is not merely hanging over Vinnie , it is hanging over me too . |
| 5 | On his present form we really would have been better sticking with Chappie . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's a water main burst down by Lime'ouse Church so yer 'd be better goin' via Cable Street . |
| 7 | We 're not only catering for Harlow people we are catering for people outside which is bringing money into Harlow helping the finance of Harlow and I think we are just progressing with the times . |
| 8 | As one said , what Easton has , unlike many areas , is ‘ ordinary civil policing ’ ( FN 16/11/87 , p. 6 ) , so that there is a continuity with policing in Easton before the current troubles began : ‘ I was in Easton years ago when it was the old station , though basically policing at Easton has n't changed from when I was here years ago . |
| 9 | Monica asked , already sullen and hopeless , apparently seeing from Alice 's face that there was no news . |
| 10 | With Byas and White wasting no scoring opportunities , Yorkshire required 41 off five overs and their task became less demanding as Byas clubbed Hayhurst for four and six , the big hit just brushing Caddick 's fingers before clearing the rope . |
| 11 | It was dawn on 13 November 1989 when there was a loud knocking at David Reed 's front door . |
| 12 | But potentially devastating revelations about big-money transfer deals in soccer are apparently lurking in Sugar 's evidence . |
| 13 | She never managed to meet up with Vivienne and , as there did n't seem to be much happening at Dingwalls , we decided to drive down to Brighton , all of us crammed into the back of the Mini van . |
| 14 | ( There was in truth not much happening in Fontanellato at this time , and although we heard news of the partisans we never knew where they were . ) |
| 15 | But there is still enough talent available , including that of Menzel and Forman ( who is apparently returning from Hollywood to make another film at the Barrandov Studios ) to push the Czech cinema into the limelight again . |
| 16 | Taylor , 31 , of 1 Sqn A Flight , RAF Laarbruch , Germany , admitted carelessly driving on September 26 , last year , and colliding with a lorry driven by Alex Baillie of Golf Drive , Port Seton , East Lothian . |
| 17 | In this case , Joan is merely checking with Carol about potentially shared information : whether Carol knows " Johnny " . |
| 18 | Klaus Kuron , a former employee of the West German intelligence service ( the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ) was sentenced on Feb. 7 to 12 years ' imprisonment by a court in Düsseldorf on charges of treason and corruption , and fined DM692,000 ( the sum which he had been paid by the East German government ) , for passing secret information obtained through his position in the West German intelligence agency , especially relating to West German secret agents in East Germany , over a period of nine years . |
| 19 | It is kind of you to be so understanding about Mrs Howard 's going — only another writer could be . |
| 20 | OSF is apparently bowing to DCE user pressure and will announce significant price reductions for one-time DCE licenses , distribution rights and royalty fees at Uniforum on March 17 . |
| 21 | The next five years will be a battle — much of it fought in the Governor 's quarterly meeting with Lu Ping , head of Peking 's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office . |
| 22 | If you picture a , for example , a typical couple perhaps living in London , erm the price of property is such that you maybe start with an apartment . |
| 23 | The spark that arises between Vronsky and Anna proves not only damaging to Karenin ( Anna 's husband ) but also to the young Kitty Shcherbatsky , who seeing Vronsky as a possible suitor , was in love with him . |
| 24 | Today there are probably 12,000 healers in this country alone according to Denis Haviland , the director of the Confederation of Healing Organisations . |
| 25 | So according to Peter we 've no need to do a non-conformance for such as this . |
| 26 | Most important is support for IBM 3270 terminals , the first of the ‘ open ’ TP systems to do so according to NCR . |
| 27 | If you look at the incidence of mental confusion by status of the home for 1987 the estimate was that in the local authority homes , 24% were mentally confused , in the voluntary homes 19% were mentally confused and in the private homes 36% were mentally confused , so according to SWSG information , the percentage of people with mental confusion is highest in the private homes . |
| 28 | It was assumed by some that profitability entailed selling products to new customers , but this is not necessarily so according to Ken Wilkie , the newly appointed chief executive at IBM 's UK Havant plant . |
| 29 | The way he gained ‘ the word that sustains the weary ’ was not like a bolt from the blue , but through patiently listening to God morning by morning . |
| 30 | They have been spending a lot of money on training , but what they 're doing now is localizing it , so training for Oxfordshire , which is different from training for somewhere like Liverpool , it 's got a lot more unemployed , it 's now not in the hands of the old training agency or manpower service commission , and we are looking at it completely afresh . |