Example sentences of "[v-ing] [subord] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here she was , past the prime of life it was true , but grumbling because others depended on her for their family traditions to be kept up , and here was Doris Smythe with no family and unable to do much for herself — and she was the sort of person who 'd always helped others when she was younger , Linda remembered . |
| 2 | Surrounding roads were jammed and buses were filled to over-flowing as commuters switched from Underground lines following the coded warning . |
| 3 | Dave Heath got the fourth … the Wildcats finally stirred thanks to a goal from Bryan Larkin … the Kings kept going though … they led by 10-1 in the third period before Swindon came back with four late goals … it finished 11 … 5 … with fists flying as tempers flared towards the end … the second leg in two weeks time at Swindon should be a scorcher |
| 4 | And the editor of Towards 2000 is in hiding after police broke into his office and home , seeking to detain him . |
| 5 | But Mr Michael Fallon , the Conservative candidate , said it was right that a quarter of the receipts should go on housing while threequarters went towards repayment of debt . |
| 6 | Posing as tax-payers engaged in writing , film-making or oddball societies , we tried to enlist the honourable members in activities and causes close to their hearts . |
| 7 | Passing cars on the southbound carriageway slowed and came close to bumping as drivers rubbernecked for a spot of interesting carnage , but they drove on disappointed . |
| 8 | And the pharmacists ' slogan , ‘ If You Want a Tan — Get a Healthy Tan ’ , is worth repeating as thoughts turn towards all those sunshine holiday bargains currently plastered over travel agents ' windows . |
| 9 | She fled screaming as bricks smashed into the bath at her boyfriend 's home in Tividale , West Midlands . |
| 10 | It offered , too , a way of testing hypotheses and theoretical predictions by providing a method for detecting whether patterns hypothesised by some theory were , in fact , supportive . |