Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the rainbow with John McCarthy and Jill Morrell , sliding down the greasy pole with Alison Halford and fighting all the way with Barbara Castle . |
| 2 | The paper bag slipped , she grabbed it and it tore open at the bottom , spilling its contents onto the empty teacups near Miss Angus and turning some of them over with an attention-drawing rattle . |
| 3 | as if beating England and supplying half of the World Cup winning side was enough for one year Queensland also won the 22nd Dubai . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , implementing RMI is going to change the culture of the NHS and reorganising this means that there is almost certain to be resistance . |
| 5 | I get far more offended going to Goodison and hearing those animals doing gorilla impressions than anything else Ive ever heard . |
| 6 | When the time was ripe , they struck back , ordering the Leveller regiments to Ireland and withdrawing all their hard-won rights . |
| 7 | In a Legislative Council meeting in 1937 he accused the government of pampering the Masai and condoning such ‘ vile practices ’ as ‘ the repeated rape of immature girls ’ in manyattas . |
| 8 | Next day they had collected the rejuvenated Goblander , catching one of the rare buses to Colchester and taking all day about it . |
| 9 | I used to go on these escapades with a mate of mine who 's now a milkman , and we 'd go to Soho , and I remember walking along Wardour Street and hearing this music coming out the basement . |
| 10 | We talked with the leaders of Israel and following those talks they made very important steps to establish a process with respect to the deportees . |
| 11 | I thought soap was something you ate , yet here I am , calling myself Franz and rubbing this stuff round my neck . |
| 12 | Because teaching RE effectively depends upon understanding the nature of RE and developing those skills and attitudes essential to it , there is a certain amount of theory to be mastered . |
| 13 | But then , she might somehow get the drawing right , just as she had dreamed of playing the clarinet exquisitely enough for an important conductor , conveniently marooned in a snow drift , brought half-dead to Castle Bewick and hearing those magical notes drifting from her tower , to stagger from his couch and say , ‘ Ah what notes of fairyland do I hear ? ’ |
| 14 | You know I do n't mind coming on a Sunday and doing all this erm archiving stuff |
| 15 | And I can I can vividly remember now coming along Nuthall Road towards Nuthall from Kimberley and seeing all the telegraph wires hanging down , pushed down to the floor , broken , with the weight of snow . |
| 16 | In conditions quite alien to them , the West Indies batsmen performed altogether more creditably than their opponents , Greenidge and Haynes producing their best opening stand of the series , 83 , and Richards , Kallicharran and Holding all making useful knocks in a score of 245 . |
| 17 | Mr Salmond underlined the SNP 's aim of advancing Scotland 's case at Westminster and extracting any concessions from the system . |
| 18 | The government maintained pressure on the rebels by declaring an exclusion zone around Bougainville and blockading all supplies to the island . |
| 19 | In December the quotas of steel imports allocated to various countries were reorganized , reducing amounts from Japan and increasing those from Brazil , Mexico and other Third-World producers . |
| 20 | Sometimes the same facts are both GBH and wounding such as when the accused chops off the victim 's arm . |
| 21 | Dancing at all hours with John Major and attacking that television reporter-the poor woman might easily have lost an eye . ’ |
| 22 | But apparently unflustered by the incident , he was soon pressing the flesh with the party faithful in Cheltenham and rejecting any suggestion that his party may lose this key marginal seat . |
| 23 | Britain could only obtain these goods by intervening in an already well-established trading pattern , taking much-desired cotton cloth from South Asia and using this to purchase spices from the East Indies . |
| 24 | At this time , some ozone-depleted air may drift out from the hole , passing over Australia and New Zealand and exposing that continent for a short period to increased ultraviolet radiation penetrating through the thinned ozone layer . |
| 25 | The oldest surviving example is the Pons Fabricius ( Ponte Fabrizio ) built 62–21 B.C. and spanning half of the river from the main bank to the Isola Tiberina , near the Theatre of Marcellus . |
| 26 | It was necessary if I was to prevent Dana rushing up to London and ruining any chance of a reconciliation between Berenice and Garry , to say nothing of the risk to the baby . |
| 27 | From the central storage server , files can be accessed by any client computer offering TCP/IP and supporting either file transfer protocol . |
| 28 | If these depressions ( or low pressure areas ) are tracking in towards Ireland rather than taking a more northerly route , then the circulation of wind flowing clockwise ( as it must ) round the depression means that south-easterly winds will be blowing over Shetland from the North Sea and pushing any birds unfortunate enough to be flying to ( or from ) Scandinavia at the time in a westerly direction . |
| 29 | The brothers Pereire , those dynamic industrialisers inspired by the ideas of Saint-Simon and enjoying some backing from Napoleon III , developed the prototype model of this device . |
| 30 | She said yesterday : ‘ The brickies were quite open about backing the IRA and giving some of their wages to the ‘ cause . ’ |