Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repercussions over Dowty are still re-verberating through TI today , almost nine months after the bid was declared unconditional . |
| 2 | Even allowing for inflation both these posts did well , but the gain in real terms was not enormous . |
| 3 | Worth seeing for Courtenay alone . |
| 4 | He governs , so far as he is able to , on borrowed time because none of the groups contending for power yet feels strong enough to make a grab for it . |
| 5 | Weeping from fatigue when bringing coals up , singing for joy then going back with empty baskets . |
| 6 | Its frank , American sexiness became , itself , a world-wide fashion , emulated in London , Paris , Tokyo — and filtering through society rapidly , so that the Weber look was not only in evidence in Bond Street or Knightsbridge but at supermarket checkouts and filling stations . |
| 7 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 8 | For elderly people , there must also be concern that emphasis on reducing waiting times by contracting for services non-locally will impose serious hardship on those unable or unwilling to travel . |
| 9 | And then I was coughing for ages then mum goes oh you , I go oh , I feel terrible ! |
| 10 | ‘ That philosopher , ’ said Scarlet , who seemed to have forgotten about going home , ‘ the one I was telling you about , he used to go galloping after women all over the place when his hair and his teeth were all falling out , and he used to write about the terrific compassion he felt for the human race , and his breath was foul . |
| 11 | I reckon I been walking for hours now . |
| 12 | This involved bombing and strafing for harassment rather than direct target destruction . |
| 13 | but they are opening for women now . |
| 14 | But Roberts discovered that it did not matter much where he grew up when he was driving through Southwark late one night on his way from work . |
| 15 | He was therefore likely to have been driving through Theale late on Sunday . |
| 16 | The distinctive moods of the rich and various landscapes which crowded near to Stowey were becoming for Coleridge almost a reflex of his own moods and thoughts — the broad uplands of the Quantock Hills a counterpoint to the speculative power of a mind ‘ habituated to the vast ’ , the lowland villages an expression for him of the loving companionship of friends and family , the hidden dell , where the voice of nature sounded in the waterfall , a retreat by turns comforting and mysterious to serve his recurrent longing for escape . |
| 17 | Try something like this : Relativity fitted naturally with Maxwell 's electromagnetism , explaining for example why the electromagnetic field around a charge apparently at rest is purely electrostatic , but that around a moving charge ( or an electric current ) has magnetic components as well . |
| 18 | Bowers calculates that , of the £5950 that the NCC pays , £500 goes in compensating for grants not received and £3150 in consumer subsidies that the farmer missed out on . |
| 19 | ‘ But we have a number of players already challenging for places ahead of him and he will be given time to acclimatise . ’ |
| 20 | I would n't normally say anything like this but having drawn 4 out of our last 5 games then I ca n't even see us qualifying for europe anymore . |
| 21 | I would n't normally say anything like this but having drawn 4 out of our last 5 games then I ca n't even see us qualifying for europe anymore . |
| 22 | At times my skateboarding skills astounded me : zipping around corners , weaving through obstacles etc . |
| 23 | ‘ It was a very worthwhile event , ’ she said , ‘ but I must admit that I was aching for days afterwards ! ’ |
| 24 | Yer can still see the poor cow walkin' about wiv both 'er eyes pointin' inwards . |
| 25 | Also proposed is a twelve month cooling off period where couples consider the situation and parents reflect on their children 's future with a marriage guidance counsellor . |
| 26 | But the more the Duchess of Teck received the more she spent , and shopkeepers , who had sent round goods on a royal promise to pay later , started pressing for payment now . |
| 27 | The blockade was in protest at Austrian plans ( announced in June ) to reduce the volume of heavy goods traffic by banning night driving for lorries over 7.5 tonnes emitting noise levels over 80 decibels on transit motorways and parallel trunk roads as from Dec. 1 , and by delaying the granting of the annual quota of transit permits for lorries . |
| 28 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 29 | Goods passing from one country to another have to be paid for ; trading between countries thus involves the creation of debts between countries . |
| 30 | Aveline , I 'm not even checking for figures there I 'm just looking through , just scanning through , erm I 'm I 'm , I have n't said how we 're gon na check these . |