Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you 've been wind surfing and you ca n't get back , you can always hitch a lift to dry land . |
| 2 | I was told there was an acting scholarship going and I was broke so I took an audition and by a marvellous chance , won the scholarship . |
| 3 | He 's obviously doing it to keep a rhythm going and it certainly seems to work . |
| 4 | Keep your circulation going and you do n't get bad legs , ’ she broke in . |
| 5 | With his teeth chattering , his mouth bleeding and his hair flattened to his skull he could not have looked less appealing as he presented himself at the front door . |
| 6 | There is a delegation coming and I must be there . |
| 7 | She twirled and swayed around the room in a slow dance , her skirt billowing and her long hair shining beneath the bright lights . |
| 8 | She looked at him , her mouth shaking and her eyes blazing with pain , and shouted hoarsely , ‘ No ! ’ |
| 9 | Then they see the size of the crowd or the famous VIP arriving and they are overwhelmed with terror . |
| 10 | However , I was not familiar with his Debussy playing and I find myself keenly interested in these five discs recorded in 1991 . |
| 11 | She turned up ten days later , stranded on a coral reef in the Bahamas with most of her gear missing and her starboard bilges half ripped out by the savage coral heads . |
| 12 | For example , in Malone v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner it was held that since there was no law against telephone tapping and it did not amount to any common law wrong , it was not unlawful for the police to engage in it . |
| 13 | Well now , your helicopter is approaching the ground at a great rate of knots with the engine idling and you have to land it — gently . |
| 14 | And we did n't know we could see her and we were looking out the window going and he was there looking , put his sunglasses on to see . |
| 15 | Bill Jordan of the engineering workers and Eric Hammond of the electricians , the two union leaders who have consistently opposed law breaking and whose unions have long and honourable records of support for secret ballots , were , significantly , given a rough ride yesterday . |
| 16 | I heard the cat miaowing and I knew something was wrong . |
| 17 | It focuses on the extent to which areas of socially heterogeneous private renting have been replaced by areas of higher economic status owner occupation and lower status council renting and it examines the nature of processes involved . |
| 18 | Initially , the scientists will be trying to treat cases of malignant melonoma ; a form of skin cancer which can be caused by sun bathing and which affects more than 3,000 Britons each year , mostly women . |
| 19 | You know , once when I was in Wembley like , another thing that I 've noticed that changed in our place at Wembley , like every time I used to go in there , all , well , when I used to be in there , like , all the lads would be in the office with her like talking to her , and laughing and smiling and and she used to be at the desk smiling and everything and now , when I walk in there now it 's only me like on a Saturday , and it 's only her like nobody else is in there with her , she 's al , she always she 's got , I think what 's happened is she got too deep into her work that she 's she just seems to take all her work now and that . |
| 20 | Then Damian 's blue eyes flicked over her body in a hot way that sent her heart racing and her legs trembling . |
| 21 | ‘ I was terribly upset about my husband dying and I was n't 100 per cent . |
| 22 | The tremendous problems that they have need addressing and we should be there , not because we can reap the benefits necessarily in funding , although of course that would help , but because we can lend a hand , because we can reach out Local Authority and in my view that is also what the people of would want this Council to do . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , God ! ’ he said , laughing , his body relaxing and his eyes glittering as he bent his head , his mouth close to hers . |
| 24 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 25 | This was her great-grandmother speaking and she could n't believe her ears . |
| 26 | The goal was just the shock needed to get Town moving and they were back in the match just four minutes later … goal poacher Steve White who scored a hat-trick last saturday was there again to make it one all … |
| 27 | The goal was just the shock needed to get Town moving and they were back in the match just four minutes later … goal poacher Steve White who scored a hat-trick last saturday was there again to make it one all … |
| 28 | BECAUSE I AM INTERVIEWING DUDLEY MOORE to talk about his piano playing and his tour of the country with the BBC Concert Orchestra and his jazz trio , I ask him a question about his piano playing . |
| 29 | You could see her whole body shaking and I remembered Clement Moore 's The Night Before Christmas ; ‘ a right jolly old elf … with a little round belly that shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I heard them in the shop talking and they said you had taken her out . ’ |