Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1681 King Charles II visited Winchester to inspect progress on a palace which Wren was building for him there as a base for hawking and hunting in the Hampshire hills and forests . |
| 2 | The Little Avon was used to feed the millpond via a half mile long leat , the mill powered by five large internal wheels , producing between them over 40 hp . |
| 3 | At the time , power for Oil Mill was provided by a pair of water wheels , generating between them around 50 hp . |
| 4 | " It 's that boy , Timothy Gedge , " Lavinia had said , and then had called out to the twins , who were clamouring for her upstairs somewhere . |
| 5 | They will be clamouring for him now , my dear , simply clamouring . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And after that , ’ Woolley said , ‘ you will come back here and stop the German air force from examining the hole which their artillery has just blown in the British Line , a hole about the size of Lancashire , and that will be the biggest waste of time of all , because the German Army found that hole an hour ago , and is now galloping through it as fast as its little legs will carry it , heading in the direction of … ’ he snipped the final toe-nail and straightened his leg to study the fault' … us . ’ |
| 7 | Eachuinn Odhar muttered , scratching itchily and irritably at the newly pink scalp gleaming through his newly white hair , ‘ different is n't aye better ! ’ |
| 8 | The wind was whipping about them now , billowing cloaks out and ruffling the hair and the fur of the Beastline . |
| 9 | No I 'm cooking for myself tonight . |
| 10 | ‘ Sorrel 's cooking for us tonight , ’ he said apropos absolutely nothing . |
| 11 | Women in particular should be on guard against apologizing for themselves indirectly by this sort of tentative behaviour . |
| 12 | But erm I think I had lots of people praying for me back here because I did n't have any problem with them and I was the only one who did n't . |
| 13 | I may be bragging about myself though . |
| 14 | And she come knocking for me about two month 's later . |
| 15 | The three of them soon to be part of one fusion , still at this time isolated from each other : three figures representing and summarising between them so much that was central to the complex notion of the Romantic Age . |
| 16 | ‘ I just needed to see you ! ’ she said with a brittle smile , walking past him on to the hot beach , feeling the tears burn her eyes . |
| 17 | It 'll mean disposing of him too , of course . ’ |
| 18 | We was I said look I can read a bloody clock as well you can , I said I wa walking behind you down the , you went in the canteen and when I went past it was one minute past quarter to ! |
| 19 | And she would not go walking with him again and she would not be alone with him if she could help it and she would freeze him with a look when he tried to talk to her . |
| 20 | Sharon 's boyfriend Matthew Stanton , 21 , was walking with her just behind the happy , giggling girls at the time of the accident early on Saturday evening . |
| 21 | Still holding her arm , he was walking with her back along the avenue , down to the sea front . |
| 22 | Why could he not be walking with me here ? |
| 23 | Marvellous and what 's been happening with you today ? |
| 24 | He can then stand on Old Sarum , look south and see Salisbury Cathedral and Clearbury Ring aligning with it exactly as on the map . |
| 25 | You could find yourself socialising with them later on . |
| 26 | You could find yourself socialising with them later on . |
| 27 | You could find yourself socialising with them later on . |
| 28 | On the drive back to camp we were all rather happy , Jimmy in the front driving with me half asleep in the passenger seat , and Henry and Rosemary behind . |
| 29 | Not , as I expected , fishing in the sea but ambling with its rather ungainly gait along the top of the bank . |
| 30 | Thomas 's superficial injuries could be seen as ‘ fair retribution for an adulterer cheating with someone else 's wife ’ , he added . |