Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For men , returning home after years away from their wives and children , a new beginning had to be made . |
| 2 | During the course of their conversation , to which Julia listened with only half her attention as she sipped her brandy , she learned that Jackson French was likely to be posted to London to play a part in the winding up of UNRRA later in the year and that Comfort herself was due to leave Venice in two days ' time ‘ now that Julia is getting well again' . |
| 3 | We were really looking forward to Christmas together as a family but now everything is ruined . |
| 4 | He was , at last , looking forward to Kano instead of looking back . |
| 5 | By the end of the evening I certainly wished the Kings Head was my local hotel restaurant , and I 'm looking forward to dining again at the Kings Head next time I have cause to visit Richmond . |
| 6 | I was really glad to be going out with Mary instead of Mum ; I do n't think Mary had ever asked if she could take me with her before . |
| 7 | Females often produce it as a contact call for their cubs , particularly when they start going out on rambles together for the first time . |
| 8 | Soon the calls were going out to groups all over the country . |
| 9 | Then I came back to the courts at Bisham again before going back to school again at 3pm for history and then I come back and play again afterwards . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going back to Paris early with Alain and Marguerite , ’ she said quickly . |
| 11 | Now if we are going to say that this rolling programme , we we do n't mean this rolling programme because it it 's all going back to committees again to be to be looked at then we are putting our at a disadvantage they will disband and the cost to us for refurbishment will increase . |
| 12 | Blacks are pouring out of flats all over Deptford . |
| 13 | When investigations by the Inquisition threatened in 1557 , he fled to Geneva with a dozen fellow monks , proceeding thence to England immediately after Queen Elizabeth I 's accession . |
| 14 | He had skilfully evaded Margie 's questions , moving on to talk instead about Kurt Eklund , the financial genius he had hired after Greg 's death to help him avoid what had seemed at the time almost certain ruin . |
| 15 | The Square of Pegasus is high in the north , with two of its stars pointing upward to Fomalhaut close to the zenith . |
| 16 | Olympic champion Christie , who was flying home to Britain yesterday after an eight-week training stint in Australia , has consistently protested he would not put his new-found sprint supremacy on the line over 60m at the world indoor championships . |
| 17 | There are some first-class people in charge , men such as Peter Browne and Laurie Kelly , and you find ex-TVH men popping up at stadia all over the world to give you a shout . |
| 18 | MOVING BACK IN TIME AGAIN WITH Sony 's new mid-price ‘ Columbia Jazz Contemporary masters ’ series , which takes the '70s as its core period ; ‘ fusion ’ ( rock-meets-jazz ) albums such as Weather Report 's ‘ Heavy Weather ’ ( starring the powerful and unforgettable Birdland , from 1977 on ) , John Mc Laughlin 's ‘ Johnny Mc Laughlin , Electric Guitarist ’ ( from 1978 on ; try New York on my Mind ) and the Mahavishnu Orchestra 's ‘ Birds of Fire ’ ( improvisation from 1973 on ) are high water marks , while future releases will include such important albums as Miles Davis 's ‘ Nefertite ’ and ‘ Filles de Kilimanjaro ’ . |
| 19 | whilst the group who have made the move from the hospital to the community are not typical of the hospital population — they are generally not as dependent as the average person in hospital — they are certainly much more typical than those people who are moving out of hospital elsewhere in England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 20 | Get into the habit first of feeling the sheer thrill and exhilaration of getting out of doors away from telephones , noise , and distractions . |
| 21 | I 'm feel that it is the remit of this council , or indeed other district councils to talk about the whole of the county of Cambridgeshire , particularly when they start mucking around with issues well outside their own geographical area . |
| 22 | But , as she stretched out a hand to stroke the mare , Maldita moved even closer to Luke , flattening her ears and lashing out at Perdita protectively with a hind leg . |
| 23 | No , Stephanie thought later , it had been no more and no less than could have been hoped : a reasonable coming together of people close to each other , not by choice , reluctant in many cases . |
| 24 | Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct . |
| 25 | I if you 're coming up from Deeside now towards the |
| 26 | They had driven to the edge of the city , into the brittle mauve of dusk , lights starting up in buildings everywhere as if some vast signal beacon were slowly igniting . |
| 27 | He said to one of his chaplains that Ramsey spent too much time theologizing up in York instead of tackling problems practically . |
| 28 | This meant starting back to barracks early on Sunday evening . |
| 29 | Coming out of Rosebury straight into his side of car ! |
| 30 | For imagine a person crying out with pain alone in the desert : is he using a language ? |