Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Babies and toddlers love getting messy , and playing with sand or splashing in water outside in the sum must come close to their idea of heaven . |
| 32 | The other side of that is that I was listening to Medicine Now on Radio Four , and they 've got a device where they you actually have er an earpiece put into your ear and it clicks continuously . |
| 33 | At least 300 people living on storeys closer to the ground were hurt in the nine-floor blocks , which contained 480 flats . |
| 34 | Those living on estates further from the office will be served by surgeries staffed by the local officers . |
| 35 | According to statistics soon to be published by the UN , the average number of children per mother in Bangladesh has fallen from 6.7 in 1975 to 4.7 now , and that of Kenya from 8.1 to 6.3 . |
| 36 | And company cars are to be taxed according to price instead of engine size . |
| 37 | According to India Today of Dec. 31 a total of 3,560 people had been killed in Punjab between Jan. 1 and Dec. 11 , 1990 . |
| 38 | David Pegler , a former England B captain , would come under consideration as a replacement after his outstanding season with London Irish , though looking outside Ireland again for a player would fuel controversy . |
| 39 | ‘ Why are you writing to Richard instead of telephoning him ? ’ |
| 40 | The greatest advantage of infrared astronomy , however , comes when looking at objects well beyond the Solar System . |
| 41 | She was looking at Ronni now in stupefied horror . |
| 42 | Could he not deliver just one of them , he had asked , looking at Goibniu slyly from the corners of his eyes . |
| 43 | He shook his head , forgetting the idea and looking at Sara again as the train stopped in the station . |
| 44 | Operating at temperatures close to absolute zero ( -273C ) , super-magnets deliver the most powerful fields available and consume practically no electricity while operating in their superconducting ( ie , loss-free ) state . |
| 45 | I remembered the palms with clustered dates hanging like udders high in the air , and wished she had never mentioned the subject of cows . |
| 46 | The houses were shaded clear against the ground : on the hills he could see the white lines of the new walls they were building like netting all over the high ground ; from the direction of the lake he heard an occasional voice , as sharp as the crack of a pistol . |
| 47 | The norw. international is heading for London already on wednesday . |
| 48 | While the book may have been disappointing for Books Etc in Charing Cross Road , the overall UK sales were spectacularly good at over 40,000 copies in the trade — a record sale for a Herbert hardback . |
| 49 | The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on . |
| 50 | He was thumbing through USA Today for the umpteenth time , looking for something he might have missed , when he heard her giggling . |
| 51 | There was the usual non-stop tirade as he praised America , himself and his latest promotion , in this case a fight card at the Mirage — not in the 17,000-seat outdoor stadium where Tyson ruled but in the 4,000-seat ballroom , with tickets selling for $25 instead of $1,000 . |
| 52 | Well , this is a slightly more complicated application , where you 're not just selling for example straight from stock , but you take orders from customers , and then you would have to manufacture , perhaps to buy in , to assemble , some sort of goods for sending out . |
| 53 | When the grubs hatch , they tunnel into the wood and carry on gnawing it away for about three years , before turning into pupae just below the surface and so restarting the cycle . |
| 54 | Never mind , I 'm going into Cheltenham tomorrow to the library . |
| 55 | Christopher is going into hospital soon for a hip operation and will be spending approximately 2 months in plaster up to his chest . |
| 56 | Betsy was lucky she had many friends who relished her company by Old Father Thames , where they all congregated when evening came round , cuddling in clusters all over the ground . |
| 57 | Well , it 's been going in Oxford now for three years and it 's for people with disability and able bodied people , and with the current production we have which is being produced by Paul Newham , the people there have er suffered with M S and are visually impaired and er you know , various disabilities like that , plus able bodied people . |
| 58 | Adherence to ethnic identities appears to be growing in strength all over the world . |
| 59 | In Figure 2.15A we can imagine a segment of the Earth 's surface ( ABE ) which has split into two , the two halves ( ABC and ADE ) remaining in contact only at point A. Point A is the pole of rotation about which movement occurs , and the separation of originally adjacent points on each segment occurs along small circles about this point . |
| 60 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |