Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pig and a chicken were walking together and they saw a huge sign advertising scrambled eggs and bacon . |
| 2 | The realisation that the lift was carrying them upwards instead of down made her heart jump horribly , and it went on fluttering febrilely as she stole a look at Luke , standing so still and confident at her side , and knowing , damn him , that she could n't bring herself to protest or ask questions in front of an audience . |
| 3 | The band was called Touching Home and we got a lot of church functions and ended up playing for the American community there . ’ |
| 4 | The staff knew what was going on but they turned a blind eye . |
| 5 | She lay on the bank for a long time waiting patiently until she spotted a whopper . |
| 6 | However , when one of the assembled men had suggested that they could have used more men , Springfield had assured them their numbers would be quite sufficient for the job in hand , adding enigmatically that he had a few aces up his sleeve which would reduce the odds against them . |
| 7 | She moved away when he sat near her , went into town to change her library books instead of going home when he invented a string of excuses that would enable him to walk in her direction . |
| 8 | Although how the two of us sharing a bed is going to make the twins more happy and contented is quite beyond me , ’ she muttered grimly , adding quickly as he took a threatening step towards her , ‘ OK — OK , I 'll go along with this mad charade . |
| 9 | Does my hon. Friend agree that that approach contrasts greatly with the latest approach from Brussels , which is that international bodies should be involved in deciding even where we erect a front porch ? |
| 10 | She cut another cross , wondering vaguely if it had a religious significance . |
| 11 | Hurriedly she glanced round , assessing her chances of getting away if she made a run for it , then started nervously when the second man took a deliberate step sideways to effectively block her path . |
| 12 | Only where industries used coal directly , like the forges of Sheffield , were towns yet blackened and the air poisoned ; and only where they produced ‘ waste ’ in great quantities , such as in coal-mining , glassworks and chemicals , was the landscape beginning to acquire that sterile covering of ‘ tips ’ , that were destined to go on piling up until they produced a mountain landscape in miniature ; until the vast range of coal-tips around the old town of Wigan , for example , could be sardonically nicknamed the Wigan Alps and be illustrated in later years under that name on picture postcards . |
| 13 | Mr Davies challenged the usual assumption that the line was a failure , pointing out that it did a good job for the district , particularly in transporting goods in the days before motor transport . |
| 14 | I am not complaining , only pointing out that it makes a difference to the tone of a campaign . |
| 15 | A letter appeared in the Independent pointing out that he made a number of grammatical errors . |
| 16 | There are great dangers in the royal family speaking out because I have a memory of the nineteen seventy nine , just prior to the devolution bill in the referendum in Scotland , when the Queen spoke out against devolution , now she in , in effect denied a large number of Scots the opportunity to have some sort of Scottish Parliament based here , and we probably would n't , I think , be debating this subject today , if in fact we 'd got that eleven years ago . |
| 17 | Suddenly I found myself moving forward and I crouched a little as I had seen the experts do in films . |
| 18 | He released a catch , springing open the bonnet , and twisted a metal cap , stepping back as it made a loud hissing sound . |
| 19 | If you 're coming along and you see a stationary vehicle , what 's the driver doing ? |
| 20 | The wind was gusting outside and he brought a blast of cold air aboard with him . |
| 21 | So do not look for us coming Lily but think rather of you coming home if you have a mind . |
| 22 | ‘ Back then , he was just coming back and I got a lot of funny looks because of the talent of the other players around here . |
| 23 | I heard him leaving because I had n't been in bed very long , and I heard him coming back because I had a bit of indigestion and I could n't sleep . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Do you know , Corbett , if you had insinuated what you are doing now before I became a friar , I would have killed you . |
| 25 | They might therefore be fearful of losing out if they accept a tender offer prematurely . |
| 26 | The competition runs for another two weeks , so time is running out if you have a house or flat to sell and want to enter . |
| 27 | I was running well until I felt a twinge in my hamstring and pulled up short of the finish line . |
| 28 | But I had to do my own asking round before I found a place to visit . |
| 29 | In the violent argument which followed , Coleridge was prevented from running at his brother with a knife by the return of their mother , and then fled from the house , still in an ‘ agony of passion ’ , stopping only when he reached a hill overlooking the River Otter a mile from the town . |
| 30 | A woman click-clacked past , her high heels dragging along as she carried a pile of heavy papers into a side-office . |