Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC 's Children 's Department , Newman felt , was still catering for only a small proportion of the nation 's youngsters : the ordered few for whom parents bought Look & Learn , The Eagle or maybe even Hotspur . |
| 2 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 3 | After walking for approximately a quarter of a mile he stopped outside a small detached cottage on his left . |
| 4 | I carry on walking for quite a bit . |
| 5 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 6 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 7 | There is a huge dining-room on the seventh floor , with seating for over a thousand , and the Galaxia Night Club on the ninth floor has panoramic views of the bay of Funchal . |
| 8 | But since she 'd considered herself relatively fit , she was disconcerted when her muscles began aching after just a short time . |
| 9 | As he drew closer , walking with almost a swagger , George noted the way the sun glinted on a head of coppery curls . |
| 10 | It is not known whether the original breeding arose from mutation or selection , or , some say , by crossbreeding with perhaps a French breed or the Devon . |
| 11 | You could , you could seat if you did , sort of classroom seating in there a , room this size in that , er , you could , you could probably seat six hundred people . |
| 12 | There the Reis-ul-Kuttab , or Reis Effendi as he was usually called by foreigners , the head of the grand vizier 's chancery , showed some signs of becoming at least an approximation to a foreign minister . |
| 13 | The balls are normally spheroid and enclosed in a cage consisting of either a cross-shaped piece of sheet metal , often silver , or two metal bands . |
| 14 | However , only one in nine households is ‘ typical ’ , most consisting of just a man and a woman . |
| 15 | The defendant 's fourth sub-head of complaint was that the judge did this when the jury had been deliberating for only an hour , citing Reg. v. McKenna [ 1960 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 16 | A literal rendering of an idiom is very rarely capable of serving as even an approximate translation ; it is most likely to be either uninterpretable , or quite unrelated in meaning to the original expression . |
| 17 | Joking apart Kevin has been training for nearly a year . |
| 18 | Obviously , tables can be a visible part of a storage wall , acting as either a desk or for dining , and some of them have an extendable top so that they can be pulled right out when you have company . |
| 19 | Thus the conditions of training that generate habituation of the UR ( i.e. those that put a node into the A2 state ) will also result in the stimulus acting as only an inadequate CS — that is , they will also produce latent inhibition . |
| 20 | No no no it 's a well taken goal and and that 's that 's what he was looking for just a little touch on . |
| 21 | Ireland now face defending champions Scotland this morning with the Scots looking for just a draw to retain their title . |
| 22 | The situation forced the company to downsize from 35 to six people and start looking for either a buyer or non-exclusive licensees . |
| 23 | I think there 's less risk of you being caught then — Lee 's and your mother 's people are looking for either a single man and woman or two unrelated young people ; it seems as if they think it 's inconceivable that you should have remained together . |
| 24 | Detective Chief Superintendent Alan Shannon , who is heading the investigation , said : ‘ We are looking for either a youth or a young man . |
| 25 | It revealed in September that it was looking for either an outright buyer or a substantial injection of capital for a minority stake in order to expand the publication . |
| 26 | A limitation of our study is that we had baseline data on smoking for only a few of the subjects and could not completely control for the potentially confounding effects of cigarette smoking . |
| 27 | The head and individual staff members meeting for about an hour to discuss the staff member 's responsibilities and the way that the school has progressed over the year ; particular stress being placed on the successes of the staff member and in finding areas of development and growth . |
| 28 | The narrow gauge line 's diesel locomotive and two former man-rider carriages have been operating for almost a year at a small extra charge to visitors . |
| 29 | WRECS , which has been operating for almost a decade , now boasts a membership of more than 40 who attended the evening of festive fun at the Pavilion Club , Barlaston , complete with refreshments and cabaret . |
| 30 | The Hereford Animal Sanctuary is currently looking after around a hundred and fifty animals . |