Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High latitudes were temperate until cooling began in the mid-to-late Pliocene ; overall cooling from then to the present has been punctuated by spells of warming . |
| 2 | ‘ But we 're sure Edmund would n't like it , ’ said Bartlemas , appearing from nowhere in a shiny apron with an advertisement for ‘ Camp Coffee ’ on it . |
| 3 | You 're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again ? |
| 4 | Underlying this change in public consciousness were fundamental changes in women 's lives : family size had been shrinking since early in the century ; and more women , especially married women , were in paid work . |
| 5 | The entire class at DRAYTON were all laughing at once during a broomstick session in NATIONAL SMILE WEEK , GRINNING FROM EAR TO EAR . |
| 6 | I felt the blood rush to my centre — legs , fingertips , head all emptying at once in a rush — |
| 7 | For instance , in December 1506 , the Council , meeting for once without the King , was told by the Lord Chancellor that Henry , hearing reports from Kildare of rebellion in Ireland , proposed to lead an expedition ‘ for the repress of the wild Irish ’ . |
| 8 | Looking towards again from the bridge over the main road , er as one gets er near near . |
| 9 | In the words of an official who examined British records dating from soon after the conquest of the Kandyan Kingdom : ‘ The most noticeable fact which strikes a reader of the minutes of the Board of Kandyan Commissioners , is the remarkable similarity between English ideas respecting various offences … and those of the Kandyans . ’ |
| 10 | The , the Labour Party was seeking to actually to the value of the airfield . |
| 11 | Which we 'll be looking at briefly in a sec . |
| 12 | A goalkeeper does not ‘ perform ’ his function in its theatrical sense , only in the sociological usage of ‘ perform ’ which we shall be looking at further in the next chapter . |
| 13 | The battle of politics and ideas which focuses on the inner city represents a conflict between sets of interests and values which have a long history , dating at least from the 1830s and the New Poor Law of 1834 . |
| 14 | A boy passing by homewards from the pictures heard his cries for help . |
| 15 | Ford claims most are selling for enough over the MGFV to pay a deposit on a new Options car now for the same monthly payments . |
| 16 | ‘ Here 's where the road to Taverna passes behind the villa — there 's a bridle path leading from there to the stables , this double dotted line here . |
| 17 | Mr Balladur , however , is not waiting until then for the money . |
| 18 | Zander seems to think it 's going to close to an old-fashioned love-in . |
| 19 | The first is , where is Lincoln going , Lincolnshire going to left after the local erm , government commission put their proposals forward and the government have a look at them , and then secondly , what our , as we note from Item Eleven , a fuller report will be brought to this sub-committee when the local government staff commission or the Secretary of State to give us definitive advice . |
| 20 | I 'm still going over here for the function keys . |
| 21 | Sure we , we 're going over there at the weekend actually , give them a ring next week . |
| 22 | Prove that you can keep everything going at once with a crazy set of juggling balls — guaranteed fun after Christmas lunch ! |
| 23 | Including into possibly into a trunk road ? |
| 24 | In their places were great standing stones , tall and thin and pointing for ever to the sky . |
| 25 | The policeman pulled his cap straight and said in a very careful , very patient voice , ‘ Who you been staying with here in the area ? ’ |
| 26 | The drill was screaming and an intense heat was rising from deep inside the shaft . |
| 27 | You may be able to abandon the high mountains and find a small roadhead village but getting from there to the airport is likely to be an adventure in itself . |
| 28 | Surely Tom one of the main criteria should be placing seats in the studio theatre for something with a bit more comfortable that way perhaps the punter 's will come back more often it 's easier to make a punter come back than it is getting in there in the first place . . |
| 29 | With the briefest of intros emanating from somewhere in the swathe of dry ice , The Bunnymen arrived to polite applause and tore into a set devoid of any material dating back to the days of Ian McCulloch . |
| 30 | Absence of status consciousness is worth commenting on further as an effect of national culture on scores . |