Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The record company folk who have been talking Gulf and eating her sarnies leave and Susanna draws up a chair , sits on it cross-legged and starts to play with her hair , twisting it and knitting it . |
| 2 | In supposedly dog-friendly Britain , getting accommodation and keeping your pets have become regularly conflicting objectives . |
| 3 | Module timetable confirming the agreed times and groups and detailing which rooms have been booked . |
| 4 | Words can not express the sadness of seeing a teenager who looks barely older than a young child suffering from severe malnutrition , but there are the wonderful moments such as a child who suffered tremendous burns after a candle fell and set fire to her night-dress ; after months of careful dressing and cleaning her wounds have virtually healed — without the clinic the little girl would almost certainly have died . |
| 5 | Rolling my sleeves up and getting my hands dirty it 's what life is all about . |
| 6 | Wake , junior ABA champion and defending his schools title against the boy he beat last year , Roger Campbell , of Hampshire , found it hard going against a shorter but stockier opponent and had to survive being hurt in a tough second round before being given a majority decision . |
| 7 | The main technical problems concern delivering stimulation at an intensity that mirrors the level of activity that occurs spontaneously in the brain , and determining which structures have been affected by it . |
| 8 | The Commissioner has already made it clear that if it needs to bring its works council proposal on where the consultation and multi-nationals through the new Chapter , it 'll include workers in British plants and calculating which firms have to comply and U K firms operating plants on the continent will have to operate the directive there . |
| 9 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
| 10 | When feeding your dogs do n't hand them their meat or they might take it from your elbow down . |
| 11 | InformationWeek quotes Taligent Inc chief executive Joe Guglielmi as saying his folks have a version of its object-oriented operating system up and running on an Apple Computer Inc Macintosh Quadra : Taligent , which intends publishing specifications this year followed by a developer 's kit , has also written some low-level applications for the system along the lines of Apple 's MacDraw — but the final system is not due until 1995 . |
| 12 | Thus when determining what contracts fall within or outside the ambit of s 3 , issues of reasonableness , equality of bargaining power and the possibility of negotiation are in fact not very relevant , except in so far as they could move a judge to finding that terms were standard or not in borderline cases . |