Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They insisted on the rehabilitation of their relatives and friends , joining the growing numbers gathering daily around the Xidan wall . |
| 2 | Eric 's guitar sounded like two steel rail wagons clanging together in a Chicago freight yard at 4am . |
| 3 | ‘ That Tweed and his girl friend are driving somewhere in a Mercedes ? ’ |
| 4 | Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace . |
| 5 | Ballantine , of Birchburn , Aultbea , had admitted causing the death of Louis Innes-Loo by driving carelessly on the Poolewe to Aultbea road last 13 July and while over the limit . |
| 6 | Ballantine , of Mossat House , Aultbea , had admitted causing the death of Louis Innes-Loo by driving carelessly on the Poolewe to Aultbea road and while over the limit . |
| 7 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 8 | Sacheverell 's defence counsel in 1710 did not deny that their client had defended non-resistance , but tried to define non-resistance as applying only to the Crown-in-Parliament , rather than the monarchy itself . |
| 9 | — Maxine Barrie , the Shirley Bassey lookalike who came out on top in the Granada TV Stars In Your Eyes programme , is appearing tonight at the Shotton Hall Banqueting Suite , Peterlee in a Valentine 's Night Special . |
| 10 | A report in the International Herald Tribune at the end of August suggested that the Khmers Rouges were keeping away from the UN disarmament process because their forces had grown so small that they would lose influence if the numbers were made public . |
| 11 | Lucy Edwards walking backwards up the Eiffel Tower to get to Africa Picture : EMMA WILLIAMS |
| 12 | There were four long rings and then it cut out , but before it stopped , Cawthorne was coming out of the farmhouse and walking quickly towards the Paddock . |
| 13 | This may be had through two main channels , either by applying directly to the SIB or by applying indirectly through Self Regulatory Organization 's ( SRO 's ) . |
| 14 | Political commentators noted that by aligning tactically with the LDP at this stage , Komeito anticipated holding the balance of power in the Lower House after the elections , a position it already enjoyed in the Upper House . |
| 15 | I can recall driving home with the Jacksons in a high cart . |
| 16 | Because of the growing expense of the festival , this year 's event is reduced to six days , opening traditionally on the Friday , but ending the following Wednesday . |
| 17 | We were concerned that er what 's happening now in the Gulf is n't a simple issue , and it needs to be dealt with very carefully . |
| 18 | To begin with those relating mainly to the Prague School , there seems , first , to be no objective way of determining what limits can be imposed on the description of the text 's structure . |
| 19 | In the final version , however , the wording had been amended to state that foreign banking markets were required to provide equivalent , but not necessarily identical , access facilities to EC banks if they wanted to trade within the EC ; it was also agreed that any foreign banks which were already trading legally within the EC would not need to reapply for authorization . |
| 20 | Relating solely to the Greater York area . |
| 21 | Instead , the oceanic plate , slid past the North American plate , much like what is happening today with the San Andreas fault . |
| 22 | I explained rapidly about the pillbox and sure enough we saw Cawthorne set out from the farmhouse , walking diagonally across the Paddock towards the fence . |
| 23 | And after dying horribly at a Nottingham University ball , I was confronted by a dandruff-afflicted sound operator in a Marillion T-shirt , who advised me to ‘ cut the left-wing politics , mate . ’ |
| 24 | The beast is becoming almost like a God , Jack pretends to forget about it , Simon wants to confront it , whereas Piggy compromises by wanting just to stay away from it . |
| 25 | They split apart in the straight , one group swinging wide , the red and white of premiere spurting forward with the Youngs ' pair at his quarters and Upper Gumtree swerving dramatically through a gap to take the rails well ahead of pampering . |
| 26 | We are pressing ahead with the Birmingham northern relief road and western orbital route . |
| 27 | The Daily Telegraph , Observer and Economist , unsuccessful in groups bidding variously for the Yorkshire and Central Scotland franchises , were given holdings in LWT . |
| 28 | Drawing largely on the Marshall Berman/Perry Anderson debate , and thereby making of Modernism the characteristic expression of the experience of modernity , itself conceived as a response to capitalist modernisation , Callinicos seems to want to claim in essence that both the former are partial in respect of the fact of this last . |
| 29 | In Europe we have one major set of structures , from Precambrian to Recent , which relate first to plates splitting and colliding approximately along the Atlantic line and to the later sea-floor spreading that produced that ocean as we see it today . |
| 30 | Angelina 's voice made him jump and he forgot all about Pretty Polly , and all about his chances of sneaking away from the Canterbury trip tomorrow to see the second day of the Kent versus Australia match . |