Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | He was therefore likely to have been driving through Theale late on Sunday . |
| 3 | ‘ But we have a number of players already challenging for places ahead of him and he will be given time to acclimatise . ’ |
| 4 | She was spotted driving about London late at night on her own , having apparently slipped out without her detective . |
| 5 | If they had all spent a little of their energy cooperating with staff instead of moaning , they would have got out a lot quicker . |
| 6 | The shy young visitor was soon disputing with Wordsworth almost on equal terms ; and next evening , while Coleridge was providing Dorothy with superfluous explanations about the different notes of the nightingale , Hazlitt and Wordsworth ‘ got into a metaphysical argument ’ which may have inspired two of the most genial of the Lyrical Ballads — ‘ Expostulation and Reply ’ , and ‘ The Tables Turned ’ , both of them written ‘ in front of the house at Alfoxden ’ . |
| 7 | We shall probably be landing in Saigon sometime after lunch tomorrow . " |
| 8 | A fundamental process of change is occurring within society both in the UK and certain other richer nations : this has been termed the emergence of ‘ post-industrial society ’ ( Bell , 1973 ) . |
| 9 | It 's best to go walking from May through to September . |
| 10 | Yet last Saturday they were to be found in Henley , rowing in trials together with up to a hundred other hopefuls from all over Britain . |
| 11 | Caitlin was off at the BBC studios , he was appearing on Crimewatch later in the evening . |
| 12 | ‘ I was just explaining to Michael here about your notes , ’ Simmons interjected , to her relief . |
| 13 | Returning to Ottery late on 4 October , Mr Coleridge gave a ‘ long & particular account ’ of his journey , before going to bed in high spirits . |
| 14 | On returning to Genappe shortly after its capture by the fusiliers , he found them ‘ busy ’ … |
| 15 | He survived , unmarried , into the reign of Edward III , returning to Brittany shortly before his death in 1334 . |
| 16 | He then worked for eighteen months in the Southampton naval works before returning to Glasgow late in 1891 as an assistant lecturer in naval architecture and marine engineering at the university , and it was soon after this that his intensive study of the design of bird-like gliders began . |
| 17 | After returning to Bombay early in 1858 he was appointed the East India Company 's agent in Zanzibar and British consul , the previous consul having died at his post thirteen months previously . |
| 18 | This has helped to increase gearing to 99% now from 67% in 1991 . |
| 19 | At 72 he 's preparing to do it all again , landing by parachute along with scores of other veterans to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most famous battles in history . |
| 20 | We faced trials by Earth , hunting for pythons deep in caverns of human skulls ; Water , too , and Air , driven by storm through mountainous seas in tattered pirate-ships , or dropping vertiginously into jungle clearings in light aircraft . |
| 21 | It lives in lakes and streams in Australia , hunting for shrimps often in murky water . |
| 22 | Second in command , Paul Hancock , says they 'll be acting as back up to the Desert Rats at bases in the north-east of Saudi Arabia . |
| 23 | He was now made chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north , an office which passed the duchy seal on 4 July , but which must have originated earlier since Gloucester was acting as steward early in June . |
| 24 | He was now made chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north , an office which passed the duchy seal on 4 July , but which must have originated earlier since Gloucester was acting as steward early in June . |
| 25 | Chicago-based jolly advertising messages transmitted to supermarket trolleys pioneer VideOcart Inc has a letter of intent for the licensing of its technology in Spain to partnership of Omina Electronics SA and Technovidea SA , Madrid : it is also looking for licensees elsewhere in Europe , in South America and the Middle East . |
| 26 | Analysts at Phillips & Drew are looking for profits up from £5.9m to Pounds 10m , with the dividend rising to 5.6p . |
| 27 | When it comes to that though there will be people from other green parties who who 'll be looking for accommodation so at the last minute we can |
| 28 | I remember wandering with Donald somewhere in the East End after we 'd been to the Whitechapel and we saw a group of teddies standing round two middle-aged Indians . |
| 29 | And he hopes to retain his place in tomorrow 's Premier League meeting with Middlesbrough ahead of Bruce Grobbelaar and David James . |
| 30 | Er but , you know , I , I 'd , as I say , I think er and then if we just , if we can just pick up like the odd I mean , I 've , I 've had a long chat with Anne , we 've had a long , erm meeting with Anne yesterday about it , and she 's gon na start pushing cos you know , she 's really done the Royal upstairs , it 's |