Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are customary ways of thinking and acting to which each individual member of society feels compelled to conform . |
| 2 | The most damaging effect of the Education Reform Act would be if it snuffed out teachers ' belief that it is worthwhile thinking and talking about what they are doing . |
| 3 | Although it took her months to get over Cerdan 's death , Edith Piaf 's desire for other men finally conquered her grief and according to her sister , Momone , ‘ she went wild , she ate her heart out , she was jealous and possessive … she howled and she locked guys up ’ . |
| 4 | For a moment , it appeared that his intransigence might pay off : many of his opponents in the MRP and Socialist Party were on the verge of losing their nerve and submitting to his ultimatum . |
| 5 | ‘ So give , ’ Steve husked , obviously still feeling his loss and talking about it not helping one bit . |
| 6 | Ian , 17 , died of acute alcohol poisoning and choking on his own vomit after the traditional celebration to mark completion of the gruelling 30-week course at the Commando Training Centre , Lympstone , Devon . |
| 7 | The images of the dead bodies in the streets kept taking over his mind and seeping into his everyday thoughts . |
| 8 | It was like climbing a waterfall , but there was a warder at the top , clinging to a railing and yelling to us at the top of his voice to hurry — as if we needed such encouragement . |
| 9 | ‘ You see , ’ he murmured , ‘ I wanted to believe it , so I could have an excuse to take what I wanted in a fury , instead of reaching out of my confusion and asking for what I wanted — ’ |
| 10 | His opponent was clumsily getting to his feet as Fleury snatched a violin from a rack of worm-eaten instruments ( the survivors of an attempt by the Collector to start a symphony orchestra in the cantonment ) , snapped it over his knee and leapt on to the sepoy 's back , at the same time whipping the violin strings tightly round the sepoy 's neck and dragging on them like reins . |
| 11 | Hung Feng-Chan quieted the horse , patting its neck and whispering to it , then brought it across to where Li Yuan was standing . |
| 12 | Dad sat poking the dead ashes in the grate and sucking on his empty clay pipe . |
| 13 | Yvonne says , fanning her mouth and hanging onto my arm . |
| 14 | And now he was curling his mouth and going for his fingers as though he could start all over again , not two hours later ! |
| 15 | Frequently the transition is managed with a back and forth movement , a re-meeting and re-parting by which the slow process of building separate lives is accomplished . |
| 16 | Planning Magwitch 's future and hearing about his past |
| 17 | I have seen him striding through Soho eating a sandwich and talking to himself at the same time , oblivious to the cars and traffic and noise around him , deep in thought . |
| 18 | London may just be carrying too big a burden of research and teaching for its population — but the means by which research and education get redistributed , rather than simply shut , remain unclear . |
| 19 | Cut out the required number of drops of curtain fabric and lining to your cutting length as calculated , and join matching the pattern where appropriate , as with lined curtains . |
| 20 | Hunter suffered emotionally from the opposite : an almost obsessive urging and prompting from his parents , in particular his father , to do well at school and the promise of a physical beating in the event of failure . |
| 21 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 22 | Gabriel took to sitting on the cart-tail and waving to them ; it seemed so ungrateful to speed away from their flattery and blessings . |
| 23 | A small herd inhabited a reedbed formed by the overflow from a large pool fed by hot springs , leaving its shelter only after dark and returning to it before light . |
| 24 | He looked around and saw that the third man was now lying over the roof of the light blue car and firing at them with what he took to be an M1 carbine . |
| 25 | Your safety , and your security and my safety and security in life does not depend on how pleasant my ways are and how pleasant my paths are how much I manage to amass , and how I can overcome all the little difficulties and problems and steer clear of the big ones the security and safety of my life , now and in eternity , security is there in the boat and lying with him . |
| 26 | This is done by listening to a tape and writing on your application form a magic number . |
| 27 | Mrs Paisley brought a message from her husband in prison , condemning the rioting and asking for it to stop . |
| 28 | Partner Ferdinand has had his back to the wall in the last few months , a troublesome disc plaguing his attempts to establish himself last spring and resulting in him coming home early from America . |
| 29 | There is much to be learnt from recognising demands within industry and working on them . |
| 30 | John Yeudall , who 's been involved in the Community for many years as worker , chairman and elected member said " My feelings about it being stripped is how very little building there is for just so much emotion and feeling in it . |