Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he went on gazing out of the window , drawing on it with his finger until Mrs Hollins came out and rapped on the glass . |
| 2 | And he goes on gazing out of the window . |
| 3 | If he heard anything he would not dream of doing anything about it but would go on gazing indifferently over the heads of his sheep . |
| 4 | Bernice could see Legion 's body splitting into a firework display of multi-coloured fronds , and slowly drawing together into a hairy black ovoid supported by three pipe-cleaner legs . |
| 5 | Our friend from the smoke , vigorously lashing away like a cab driver whipping a lazy horse , caught three . |
| 6 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 7 | Now empty , decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building 's fabric . |
| 8 | If you want to get in close enough to see the detail of his beautiful body markings , you wo n't be able to include much of his neck which will be mostly sticking out through the top of the frame . |
| 9 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 10 | Governments would not be swayed , nor would ministers tremble , on receipt of elegantly crafted and crisply sarcastic Notes written by him on the antique encryption machine which could be seen in a corner of the office , slowly rusting away in the hot , salt air . |
| 11 | Dispel notions of lethargic ponies plodding nose to tail , only speeding up on the way back to the stables : trail riding can be both challenging and exciting . |
| 12 | The force is rightly stepping back from the limelight . |
| 13 | He was suddenly seeing right into the crystalline spaces of the famous poem . |
| 14 | Elite performers often launch an attack as soon as the switch-change occurs , suddenly darting forwards with a powerful attack before the opponent has time to re-calculate your distance from him . |
| 15 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 16 | Every now and then I can see it all so clearly ; a nice log fire and a little round table with a tablecloth , and hot toast with great slabs of butter , and crumpets with honey all oozing out of the little holes , and a china cup with steaming tea — ’ |
| 17 | and you slid down twisting on to the grass . |
| 18 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 19 | So much happening here at the moment as the ball was followed up by David he looked at the referee as er challenge him for the er shove inside the penalty area but the referee was unimpressed by that , Blackburn have already got one penalty here tonight from which they 've scored , Shrewsbury have scored from a penalty too and it 's the third division side still in the lead here by three goals to two . |
| 20 | I hurried along keeping close to a wall and waiting for the inevitable mortar burst that would follow in the path of the jeep . |
| 21 | Ecosystem was a term proposed by the plant ecologist A.G. Tansley in 1935 as a general term for both the biome which was ‘ the whole complex of organisms — both animals and plants — naturally living together as a sociological unit ’ and for its habitat . |
| 22 | No need to explain one 's reasons for suddenly looking out of the window . |
| 23 | ‘ She will be delighted , ’ Alida Thorne said , ‘ she 's so looking forward to a visitor . |
| 24 | Such a shame really , since I was so looking forward to the day . |
| 25 | ‘ You see , I was so looking forward to the prince 's return from Ludlow . ’ |
| 26 | The Aged was obviously looking forward to the evening ceremony of firing the gun . |
| 27 | I 'm real excited , as you can imagine , and greatly looking forward to the adventure . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I am greatly looking forward to the challenge . ’ |
| 29 | And then the railway lines themselves , snaking out secretly and backwards and then suddenly fanning out into a thousand arteries of shining black steel leaping through London and beyond to the places you can only imagine , the lines pulsing her brain with the excitement of where they 're going . |
| 30 | Andy is filling the single champagne glass at the apex of the pyramid with champagne ; it is overflowing , filling the three glasses beneath it ; they in turn are overflowing , filling the glasses on the level beneath them , which are also full and so spilling over to the level underneath , and so on and so on down almost to the bottom ; Andy is on his eighth magnum . |