Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura cried , struggling to sit up on the wide leather rear seat of the large car , where she had been so unceremoniously tossed only a moment before . |
| 2 | It 's got nothing to do with the fact that he got bent out of shape at an early age and has been shaping laughs out of the kinks ever since . |
| 3 | When other people made a fuss of him , he hardly bothered with them , preferring to go over to wherever I might be and just sit there looking at me with those eyes . |
| 4 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 5 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 6 | DEC is struggling to come up with a clear , forthright statement on its Unix policy for a worldwide briefing it 's planning on holding February 10 . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the also sympathetic but Grahamly maddening Tim is struggling to move into a flat on the row , while supposing himself to be struggling to come out of the closet . |
| 8 | I certainly both dreaded and disliked the prospect of the law and order debate , for the atmosphere was so strangely hostile and so different from that accorded to all one 's colleagues … pressure and even bullying by so-called ‘ hangers and floggers ’ served only to force Conservative MPs who were against hanging to stand up for what they believed to be right . |
| 9 | Again the horse refused , his nostrils flaring with fear and his eyes appearing to swivel back under his ears . |
| 10 | ‘ I am sorry to interrupt your cosy chat , Martin , but Daddy 's dying to go up to the bar for a drink and we 've promised to stop by Carolyn Roach 's house later on . ’ |
| 11 | and I went who 's applying to go on to university or education after eighteen , so I put up my hand , turned round and flipping Stuart and Danny had put their hands up and I just went oh god , they 're gon na do really well and Terry , and Terry , we 're talking Terry , Terry who has n't got a brain cell to rub together |
| 12 | The North will not get that investment if certain influential people keeping banging on about how wonderful things are . |
| 13 | Four main conclusions were drawn : first , war was a senseless act , which could never be a rational tool of state policy ; secondly , the 1914–18 war had been the result of leaders becoming caught up in a set of processes that no one could control ; thirdly , the causes of the war lay in misunderstandings between leaders and in the lack of democratic accountability within the states involved ; and fourthly , the underlying tensions which had provided the rationale for the conflict could be removed by the spread of statehood and democracy . |
| 14 | The committee was becoming caught up in issues that did not fall within its remit . |
| 15 | She coughed loudly and said loudly , ‘ And I 'm gettin' frozen up in all these draughts . ’ |
| 16 | There were people in Moscow , New York , Rome , Paris , Oslo and Naples who were absolutely dying to find out about Wimbledon . |
| 17 | Did you inherit these ? ’ she asked , dying to find out about his background . |
| 18 | The police , finally becoming fed up with being outwitted by the sanctuary laws , continued the chase inside , arresting the nobleman at the High Altar . |
| 19 | Duff , who won the title when representing Auchinleck back in 1988 , but now resident in England and representing his new country , looked to be heading for the quarter-finals when he opened up a 6-1 final-set lead over Dennis Catunarich . |
| 20 | The business of claiming from a company is becoming wrapped up in more and more paperwork and bureaucracy . |
| 21 | I could feel the blast on my back as I was pitched forward , landing face down on the ground unable to move and gasping for breath . |
| 22 | Kirov sighed deeply , appearing to give in against his will . |
| 23 | ‘ My mother especially is becoming worn out with the constant caring and the sleepless nights . ’ |
| 24 | These limitations on the availability of the interlocutory procedures are presumably designed to prevent AJRs becoming bogged down by complex factual arguments , thus unduly delaying public programmes . |
| 25 | Strong presidential powers were vital for the next two to three years to prevent reforms from becoming bogged down in ‘ pseudo-democratic ritual ’ . |
| 26 | The child 's grandmother was screaming for help after becoming bogged down in mud when she plunged into the water after the youngster . |
| 27 | The other advantages inherent in the strategy were that ( i ) it enabled the allied forces to capitalise on their superior mobility and air power by minimizing the possibility of becoming bogged down in a static war ; ( ii ) it made the allies less vulnerable to attack by chemical weapons , as such weapons were most easily used from a static defensive position against an enemy engaged in a frontal assault ; ( iii ) it offered the possibility of cutting off all forces within Kuwait and southern Iraq — including the Republican Guard — thereby enabling the allies to destroy Iraq 's military capability in addition to liberating Kuwait ; and ( iv ) it meant that the allies would capture a swathe of Iraqi territory , a potentially useful lever in the event of the negotiation and implementation of ceasefire conditions . |
| 28 | The talks appeared to end unsatisfactorily , after becoming bogged down in disagreement over power-sharing proposals . |
| 29 | The authorities had compounded their unpopularity among radicals by appearing to draw back from reform after publishing the emancipation statutes . |
| 30 | It took a moment for the full enormity of what was happening to filter through to the brandy-drenched consciousness of the member reading The Times . |