Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She enjoyed uncovering a corner of brick enough to insert the trowel blade beneath it and twist , and prise it slowly out of its bed . |
| 2 | What is not perhaps as well understood is the art of keeping a range of invertebrates together without such conflicts . |
| 3 | My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has had a number of discussions with the Council of Mortgage Lenders and others , and he will be announcing a package of measures later this afternoon . |
| 4 | ‘ They say : ‘ Catherine 's opening a can of beans today . |
| 5 | SHOE firm Church is doing its bit to balance the yearly £200 million we spend on Italian footwear by opening a shop in Milan tomorrow . |
| 6 | Eventually a strong urge swept me to do something vandalistic to the apparatus , but I yielded not to temptation and left , returning a couple of hours later to complete my purchases . |
| 7 | Increases in intra-abdominal pressure induced by inflating a balloon by mouth normally generate a compensatory increase in external anal sphincter activity that enhances the anal pressure barrier and maintains continence . |
| 8 | This provides the opportunity to test empirically whether the theoretical and largely feminist reconceptualisation of politics is borne out by incorporating a set of activities traditionally overlooked by conventional research into political behaviour . |
| 9 | Most drawing packages offer you an alignment tool but it usually does n't solve the problem of spacing a set of objects evenly . |
| 10 | Throughout the day those working the lifts and keeping an eye on skiers actually — wait for it — smiled . |
| 11 | Even the balloons they released as they gambolled about seemed to have a sleek , benevolent look as they rose , passing a shower of confetti as dense and continuous as the applause on its way down . |
| 12 | When I spoke to Andrew , he and Wendy were tending a farm for friends away on holiday . |
| 13 | The writer 's kitten is spending a lot of time , and not a little of his owner 's patience , in developing a set of skills specifically to enable him to find and to cope with living prey . |
| 14 | She would kill him later , but for the present , she was thinking of Sycorax , who had instructed her in love , and wondering if it would please her that here she was , filling a man with desire just as Sycorax had always said she should . |
| 15 | Raffles — Discos — Barn Dance — Cheese and Wine — Sponsored Swim — Slim — Ball Bounce — Filling a jar with coins under 10p — Coffee Mornings — Cake Stall — If every teacher pledged herself to raising among her classes just £20 between September 1984–85 we would raise almost £3,000 . |
| 16 | A tiny fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls is causing a row between experts here and in America . |
| 17 | He was writing a lot of plays now and was doing very well . |
| 18 | An example would be writing a book in longhand instead of learning to use a word processor . |
| 19 | It is at this point that the second contradiction — between working class and bourgeoisie — which differs from the first in expressing an opposition of interests rather than an incompatibility of structures , assumes great importance . |
| 20 | Curved lines are rare , and even in the most intricate and subtle of patterning an essence of angularity usually underpins the scheme . |
| 21 | The truth is that , while certainly many constitutional ideas have been borrowed from Britain , the British system contains features that no one designing a system of government today would conceivably want to adopt . |
| 22 | In 11 pages , such curves are explained and illustrated , and a practical systematic method given for designing a set of strings once the tension curve is chosen . |
| 23 | Father Moore is only a brief visitor ; he has called in crisply to pay his respects , exchange a few words of banter with Patsy ( also a brother-in-law of somebody ) , and to inform Siobhan that next year he will be personally heading a pilgrimage to Knock so as to ward off any unfortunate flukes of the road . |
| 24 | At its eastern end two second-century buildings were identified , that to the south ( Building 2a ) lying at right angles to the frontage and apparently comprising a suite of rooms c. 7.5 by 3.5 m ( 24½ by 11½ ft ) , on Hamstone foundations . |
| 25 | Postwoman Val took Pat home , where her husband made him a Jamaican meal and Pat then went off to boogie to a steel band , like a rasta on ganja , exhibiting a sense of abandon never hinted at in Greendale . |
| 26 | Every day new private shops and kiosks open selling a range of goods simply never seen before , from pineapple juice to fax machines . |
| 27 | Cranes nest on the ground , building a mound of vegetation usually in the middle of a swamp . |
| 28 | I spent most of the day mooching around Winnipeg , seeing a couple of owners once in a shop selling Eskimo sculptures , but never coming face to face with anyone who might know me . |
| 29 | Daru booked his place for the Cesarewitch at Newmarket on October 17 when completing a hat-trick at York yesterday . |
| 30 | As so often , the Franco regime was using a date of significance only to itself to suggest that Spain had no history outside that which was officially approved . |