Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 2 | I 'm only going cos I got to . |
| 3 | The external factors affecting your business are constantly changing and you have in order to survive to adapt to these external changes . |
| 4 | ‘ Is this the kind of thing you want , old thing ? ’ he enquired kindly , obviously feeling that she needed to be humoured . |
| 5 | There are other good vignettes of people telephoning each other to say goodbye , huddling in corner stores and generally acting as they do in scary SF movies . |
| 6 | Several other counties are already regretting that he slipped through the net . |
| 7 | The Land Rover 's motor was already running when he arrived in the street , and when Hennessy had clambered in on the passenger side Windeler moved off without even waiting to see if the door was secure . |
| 8 | Dusk was just falling as they turned into the parking area down by the river . |
| 9 | For a short time she stood still and silent , scarcely breathing as she revelled in the novelty of his tenderness , but presently her body started stirring in response to the warmth of his mouth , a new sweetness to her desire . |
| 10 | Julia did n't care a sod about that kid , she 'd let her to scream on , stand in the middle of the garden screaming , indoors screaming and she said to me I have no feelings for her whatsoever but she took the bloody money every week and this is what 's so wrong , nobody knows how she er was as that child , only people like us who would hear |
| 11 | She was already smiling when she arrived with her team — Palace press officer Dickie Arbiter , Prince Charles 's private secretary Richard Aylard and a man from her protection squad . |
| 12 | And the things is , they always laugh , they 're always laughing when they get on the train |
| 13 | He was still praying when he got in the water . |
| 14 | He was still shouting as they walked past the barbed wire and the concrete blocks down to the waterline . |
| 15 | She had to find her own way to the bathroom and was pleased with herself for so quickly remembering that it lay at the end of the passage . |
| 16 | All three write that he went on the pilgrimage in 822 , al-Makrizi saying that he had gone by way of Damascus , Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi possibly implying that he went from Jerusalem since they write that he " returned " there after the pilgrimage : the two versions are not , of course , mutually exclusive in any case , and the latter two authors may well mean no more than that he returned [ from the pilgrimage ] to Jerusalem . |
| 17 | She pocketed the Beretta , her hands still trembling as she thought of how close she had come to firing on the turn . |
| 18 | He was still grinning when they rode into the camp which had been built by the Moi in a bend of the slow-flowing river . |
| 19 | You know if you 've , erm do you know if you 've erm recorded it , if you 're like speaking if you like in a group do you put all their names down ? , or just put a group ? |
| 20 | But there was something dangerously lacking when it came to the matter of how they applied their logic to the solution of a particular problem . |
| 21 | She was still seething when they got into his luxury car , hired , he told her , as he did n't keep one of his own here , his visits to Taipei being infrequent and usually brief . |
| 22 | Donna 's mind was still reeling but she reached for her handbag , pulling out the diary . |
| 23 | I was still crying when I put on my boots and picked up my kitbag ; and after a few desperate embraces I burst out into the stars and the snow — the constellations of snow , the blizzard of stars . |
| 24 | They 're so bloody thick , they 're always saying that we dress like tramps yeah then why do they wear clothes with holes in them ? |
| 25 | By February 1969 , Hello , Dolly ! was ready for screening , but the Broadway production was still running and it looked as if it might be more than two years before the film could be shown . |
| 26 | Asked about the reasons for his apparent about face , Hahn said : ‘ You 're always learning and I think in the past our view was wrong . |
| 27 | Daylight was quickly fading as they walked up the street to the nurse 's house . |
| 28 | Jackson was still smarting when he returned to the station in the city centre . |
| 29 | They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon . |
| 30 | They were practically cheering as they raced across the scabby grass down to the mill . |