Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [subord] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 22-year-old victim was raped in the attacker 's Jaguar car after meeting him while drinking alone at Hatton 's Wine Bar in Holborn , Central London . |
| 2 | prior to etching it as described previously . |
| 3 | Lij Yasu has his head shaved in the Danakil fashion and is living with the Danakil ; what food or milk he requires he seizes from the nearest villages , and he is doing nothing but hunt occasionally . |
| 4 | ‘ Though I may say that I shall be getting twenty-five guineas next Thursday for doing nothing but sit around in a television studio for half-an-hour , instead of beating my brains out all week-end to write a script for the BBC Overseas Service and getting ten guineas for it . ’ |
| 5 | We 're not treating it as lost yet . ’ |
| 6 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 7 | For instance , a page with an illustration on it — a solid page with a picture — the men charge as solid type and if the page is a little bigger than an ordinary page , they will charge extra for putting that page in , besides charging it as setting up so many thousand letters … |
| 8 | I walked round the camp for what I thought was half an hour , imagining myself hiding in woods , boarding goods trains , stealing food , doing anything except clamber over the wire . |
| 9 | It was now about 2157 , and although it had taken just three minutes to use Conquest for the rescue , the transfer to the small boat and handling her while picking up the survivor had required seamanship of a high order . |
| 10 | Because of the vast size of it and the difficulty of controlling it when sailing single-handed , the spinnaker was n't a sail he used much and it was right at the bottom at the aft end of the sail-locker . |