Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battles of Penselwood and Sherston were apparently inconclusive , although hard-fought in the case of the latter , but Edmund was able to relieve London , driving the enemy away and defeating them after crossing the Thames at Brentford . |
| 2 | You can soon go and ask them cos some git 's gon na be coming over and hitting you for taking the |
| 3 | The horses were being led and one of the men was limping badly and supporting himself by holding on to a stirrup . |
| 4 | ‘ It might take a letter a week to get to Germany , might n't it ? ’ said Mrs Fanshawe , taking her rings off and amusing herself by making them flash in the sunlight right into Nurse Rose 's eyes . |
| 5 | She waited for Jean , his girlfriend , to go to the Ladies , and then pounced , flirting madly and manoeuvring him into bartering with her that he would buy two whole strips if she would have a dance with him . |
| 6 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 7 | She started to wrestle with the nearside door , but Ward had locked it and in the end she gave up , lying back again and muttering something about remembering now . |