Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [noun] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all her professed populism , she was seen as remote from ordinary people , hardly ever catching a train , watching a film , or relaxing in a British holiday resort , turning instinctively to privileged private treatment in educating her children or adopting health-care systems for herself . |
| 2 | He moved quickly to cut short any illusions that they might have about possessing an independent authority or having de Gaulle in their debt . |
| 3 | Certainly this freedom is obtained when using graphics terminals or playing computer games with their trackballs and joysticks but how can a serious user benefit ? |
| 4 | When asked what to do with a running shoe , the non-exercisers said ‘ run or walk ’ while the exercisers made suggestions as diverse as hammering in nails , killing cockroaches , or putting pot plants in them . |
| 5 | It is extraordinary , therefore , that these desperately poor countries still owe money to ( and still struggle to repay ) the rich financial institutions in the North at the expense of feeding or delivering health care to their own people . |
| 6 | I condemn absolutely those salacious motion pictures , which , with other degrading agencies , are corrupting public morals and promoting sex mania in our land . |
| 7 | Murdo MacIver , 29 , whose address was given as c/o 471 Maryhill Road , Glasgow , denies , while acting with others , assaulting and robbing Mr Beaton of his lorry and trailer . |
| 8 | Yes , but particularly with reference to John Major , I think he 's had an amazing honeymoon and people are prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt as you were about his quote treatment of women unquote , and I suspect that the media have been particularly sympathetic and wearing kid gloves with him , and I find that the role of the media is to probe and to pry and |
| 9 | You might consider ditching the PostScript cartridge and buying TrueType equivalents for your Type 1 fonts . |
| 10 | The compacts of free association offered internal sovereignty and pledges of substantial US aid in return for the provision of facilities for the US armed forces , and continuing US control of their defence and foreign relations . |
| 11 | Observers of a mining community in the 1950s noted that ‘ husband and wife live separate and in a sense secret lives … it is a point of honour among men to keep some time for drinking and attending sporting events with their mates ’ . |
| 12 | The Duke had a passion for practical jokes-wetting people with hoses and putting itching powder in their beds — and he was a devoted animal lover , always surrounded by dogs and preferring the ugliest because no-one else would be kind to it . |
| 13 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , over in Soho , a bemused MARY MARY ( one-time Mary Byker and currently leading light in HYPERHEAD ) found himself completely surrounded by young Japanese girls all screaming wildly and shaking autograph books at him . |
| 15 | She discovered there were seventeen pupils , ranging in age from six to twelve , and that they were housed in two so-called dormitories , which were divided by panels into cubicles , each being about twice the area of its narrow iron bed , just enough to hold a chest of drawers and leaving standing space in which to undress . |
| 16 | Some people are wary of keeping Plecs in an aquarium with Discus as there have been cases of Plecs grazing off the sides of the Discus and leaving sucker marks on them but I have not seen any evidence of this from the Spotted Orange Pleco . |
| 17 | And what 's more , why not have him continue to work closely with the staff , maintaining an office at the museum , and receiving pay equivalent to his annual $150,000 salary ? |
| 18 | The main products of the research will comprise new models of the interactions between lags and expectations , empirical studies of the success of such models relative to already established results , new econometrics tools for evaluating models , and working computer programmes with their documentation to enable other researchers to test the findings and try out related methods . |