Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drag queens were either stuck in the back of dingy Stockwell pubs , or performing in Christmas pantos in Eastbourne . |
| 2 | Climbing has to be more than a race for E points , pumping away on raddled lumps of overhanging bolt-protected , sweaty limestone , or cavorting on plywood Towers of Babel , studded with artificial holds , floodlit for a ‘ quick-fox ’ titillation of the idle masses . |
| 3 | Now we 've been doing these or working with estate agents for twenty years . |
| 4 | The product development venture , SunSolutions , a new moon circling Sun Technology Enterprises , last week debuted its first product , ShowMe , its computer conference software : based on Open Look , it says it can be deployed for on-line meetings and collaborating on compound documents in real-time over a TCP/IP net work . |
| 5 | On Feb. 27 an " open skies " agreement , signed in May 1991 between Hungary and Romania and allowing for surveillance flights in each country 's airspace , came into force . |
| 6 | To everyone 's surprise , the bodies of the tech and the scum warrior stayed in full view , soaring and bobbing on convection currents of superheated gases as if trying to swim away from the wall ; though the bodies were obviously changing in texture as they cooked . |
| 7 | Emphasis will be placed on the initiation and sustaining of working relationships throughout the module and the interpersonal skills used during the module will be assessed . |
| 8 | ‘ Slip is due to little bits of crystal getting loose and acting as roller bearings between the layers . |
| 9 | Systematically demolishing his enemies , imprisoning some and descending on Border troublemakers for summary hangings , James combined military decisiveness with a great love of the arts and , as both his admirers and detractors admitted , of regal pomp . |
| 10 | In such practices the links , for example , between food rioting for " just prices " and persisting in lighting bonfires in public places on 5 November even if they were regarded as " nuisances " by authorities , are evident . |
| 11 | His campaign had a heavy-duty , macho feel to it , complete with Ortega rolling up his shirt-sleeves like Marlon Brando , dancing sensuously with delighted pre-pubescent girls , and posing for polaroid photographs with babies and housewives . |
| 12 | Joe cited a time when he was four years old and playing at grocery stores with his nine-year-old brother Anthony in the kitchen . |
| 13 | In his early years Bill was a great competition golfer , fixing and playing in Artisan Matches of up to 18 a side , his opponent being the other Club 's Professional . |
| 14 | The hunters had forfeited their title to the past , and now they were bringing to its remains less care than their wives and mothers took with rinsing , smoothing , and conserving for re-use scraps of brown paper or lengths of string . |
| 15 | In their struggle to gain control of the wool tax the commons arguably gained more by agreeing to grant the tax and receiving in return concessions on free trade in wool than they would have achieved by seeking to abolish the tax . |
| 16 | Inside the wall there was a new blackness , free of mist , and the most persistent sound was the dripping and trickling of myriad streams into the storage below . |
| 17 | Linder , previously famous for designing Magazine album sleeves and working on montage projects with Sounds writer Jon Savage , slowly wrenched the group away from the ideas of Kadmon . |
| 18 | When Community rules are thus applied by the national courts , they fall to be interpreted , not according to domestic canons of construction , but according to Community methods of interpretation . |
| 19 | ‘ We have to remark that there is no doubt that our present Medical Officer , whose experience is greater in the treatment of patients in modern hospitals than in union workhouses , would naturally like to have the sick treated in the same way as in a large hospital , but taking into consideration cases under treatment , which are mostly chronic , as well as the means at the disposal of the Guardians , we can not recommend any sweeping alterations . |