Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should be brushed daily to prevent his coat becoming badly knotted again . |
| 2 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 3 | It is not the commonly occurring long drawn out explanatory warning ( 'If you do n't stop whining I 'll get cross with you and then put you in time out until you stop' ) . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Terling society was highly stratified ; by the later seventeenth century the ‘ better sort ’ were becoming increasingly set apart from the labouring poor . |
| 5 | In the last chapter we discussed Giddens 's notion of time-space distantiation ; the idea that social life and social processes are becoming increasingly stretched over both time and space . |
| 6 | While the political literati lay waste to vast tracts of newsprint in their musings about the causes of Labour 's failure , and the shortcomings of the political system that compounded it , those people who constitute what ought to be the bedrock of oppositional electoral support are becoming increasingly alienated not only from the Labour Party , but from the entire political process . |
| 7 | I do n't agree with the theory that my becoming emotionally charged up by the relay affair affected my running in the 100 metres . |
| 8 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |
| 9 | Elderly people living alone received very much more assistance from home helps than any other type of household . |
| 10 | Using the jet nozzle head , unsightly black marks in tile grouting just dissolved away , and the oily deposits on the back wheel of a motorbike , which usually took hours to shift , disappeared in no time . |
| 11 | Jake sat back in his chair , his fingers toying with the glass paperweight , yet looking totally composed again , back to his old self . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're looking absolutely terrified right this minute . |
| 13 | The Council , the longest so far , moved to Rome in 1442 and came to an end , while the rump of the Basle gathering gradually faded away . |
| 14 | They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors , and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks . |
| 15 | ‘ Going down to the Hogans again are you ? ’ she said , sounding slightly put out . |
| 16 | The blue vein in Davide 's temple beside the scar where the bullet had entered throbbed and swelled to give warning when one of his bone crunchers was on its way ; lying quietly stretched out in the shuttered bedroom of their apartment , he was able to defend himself , as it readied to pounce , testing its grip on his nerves as a cat tests its claws on the obliging furniture ; he could slip under the velvet cloth of numb unconsciousness , without plunging his family into squalor and even starvation and illness as he had risked doing-as he had done — on Crosby Street near the Bend in Little Italy . |
| 17 | Binding later described how he was told ‘ to arrange a crew and equipment , ladders , steps , scaffolding , cylinders of hydrogen and personnel for repair of airship skin and everything I thought necessary to salvage this airship . |
| 18 | One of the agreements which our government signed at Rio , was for the setting up of a sustainability plan for a British economy , yet ever since the end of that conference , these proposals have been getting successfully watered down and deleted . |
| 19 | I was getting so fed up , week after week and not doing a thing , not feeling like doing a thing . |
| 20 | But I do n't understand what you 're getting so excited about . |
| 21 | ‘ But there 's no point getting so worked up about it . |
| 22 | 'You 're the one who 's getting so worked up about it . ’ |
| 23 | Although polling apparently passed off peacefully , the election campaign period had reportedly been characterized by months of repression , severe restrictions and official harassment of candidates and political activists , as the military regime continued the clampdown on the pro-democracy movement which it had brutally repressed in September 1988 [ see pp. 36221-25 for background ] . |
| 24 | Every autumn my mother would make a football out of old rags and we had some rare games , often getting literally bogged down after any rain , with the imitation football getting too heavy to kick any distance . |
| 25 | I 'm thinking about too much I just ca n't I 'm getting totally confused now . |
| 26 | She was getting decidedly fed up . |
| 27 | ‘ But … but you said — well , you intimated — no , s-said , I 'm sure , ’ she stammered , not surprised that she was getting thoroughly mixed up , ‘ you said that you were n't furious with me any more . ’ |
| 28 | While fundholding originally represented only 3 – 4 per cent of practices , the eligibility criteria now permit 50 per cent of practices to apply . |
| 29 | Cos I know that like she said she did but I know she was getting really pissed off cos everyone was sticking on the music she was n't interested in and stuff . |
| 30 | Yeah , 'cos Tizer 's the only one they have n't been doing diet , and I 've been getting really pissed off . |