Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corden said he would consider going back on to the board if a new chairman extended an invitation . |
| 2 | The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | Several weeks ago Victor came crashing down out of a tree and on to his back . |
| 4 | There was a thick concrete wall which we were all going to hide behind and we had our helmets on in case any car parts came raining down out of the sky . |
| 5 | His spirit was epitomised by the way he came charging in late on the final day , giving it everything he had , despite an unresponsive surface and the near-certainty that the match would finish in a draw . |
| 6 | signs of winter came floating in today as the new national hunt season got underway at Bangor … |
| 7 | I 've got to do javelin and I do n't like going down there in the wet . |
| 8 | ’ Will you mind working down there in the new building then ? ’ |
| 9 | Whe whether it was involved in , whether there was any travel involved or whether it was all desk bound or anything else you know whether he goes zooming off all over the country or whether , whether there 's a possibility of travel involved or any danger in it , in the job , unlikely but |
| 10 | Raymond Radiguet was a youth of 12 when Modigliani painted him , a brilliant schoolboy who had won a scholarship to a Paris Lycée and began coming in daily to the city from the suburbs . |
| 11 | Loopy Lil began piling the tea-things on to the tray to carry back to the kitchen , and Mrs Hollidaye suggested Gloria should go and help bring in the vegetables from the shed for supper , when an insistent bell began ringing out somewhere within the house . |
| 12 | She knew , as she carried articles that required hanging up through to the wardrobes , that she was not going to tresspass any further on Ven 's generosity than to partake of a cup of tea with him . |
| 13 | Well I 'm not actually signed up but I 'm going to start signing up now as a crew member . |
| 14 | Right from the first day of term the two of them started wandering round together during the morning-break and in the lunch-hour . |
| 15 | But for Balbir , as for the majority of Asian girls who have turned to prostitution , they still think that it is too degrading for them to consider going out on to the streets . |
| 16 | And that was when we came , and we started hay-making along there to the man-killers we called him , of course there 's a better picture here and I 've got it here along with the man-killer we caught it up , and we 've got someone coming along behind . |
| 17 | Huge puffy ones started springing up all over the hands at the friction points in Vincente 's system of finger knots . |
| 18 | They do n't really expect any er any delay erm and they 're expecting to start shipping up here on the Monday . |
| 19 | The defenders pushed at the makeshift scaling ladders , and at least one went crashing back down into the crowd below ; but those who exposed themselves to do it were immediately the target of a dozen archers . |
| 20 | All the time he had this great bursting feeling of utter incredulity inside him ; it kept exploding , he kept laughing out loud at the memory of the amazing appearance before his very eyes of this whole new life ; the shock of it would not fade . |
| 21 | Eachuinn Odhar strode splashing up out of the water to meet Lady Marion . |
| 22 | Although he kept looking up eagerly at the sky , it was obvious that he could see nothing . |
| 23 | The rosy colour faded from Brenda 's cheeks as she thought what might happen if the van went rushing on unawares at the bridge . |
| 24 | ‘ However , ’ Don Mini continued , still addressing Little Billy , ‘ you can not go flying around all over the place on Swan 's back in full daylight . |
| 25 | The article criticised the ‘ hopeless confusion of the post-war years ’ which had created the risk ‘ that in incompetent hands this country may go drifting on either towards a sharp crisis which might have revolutionary consequences , or to dictatorship , or perhaps worse still to gradual decline … |
| 26 | With this , she released Belinda abruptly , and the chicken dinner went slopping over on to the tray again . |
| 27 | Little departures from established norms keep cropping up all over the program , forcing you to refer either to on-line help or the manual , neither of which , frankly , is up to scratch . |
| 28 | I start wondering out loud about the irony of Therapy ? being in the States , when one of their new songs , ‘ Disgracelands ’ , deals with the cracks in American culture . |
| 29 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 30 | Coons has started working out daily in a pumping iron gym , and enrolled himself in acting classes . |