Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [coord] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This evolutionary argument asks what it is about a feature that improves the animal 's chances of surviving and reproducing itself . |
| 2 | We are an organisation specialising in Stearmans and have wide experience of restoring and operating them at our Norfolk base . |
| 3 | The only cookery books at Greystones were yellowing volumes from the twenties and thirties , smelling of damp and telling you how to make spotted dick or pickle eggs in isinglass . |
| 4 | After several days of this treatment , Honey became less anxious and forgot her bad habits of rearing and crossing her jaws ; and she eventually became quite a pleasant horse to ride . |
| 5 | This means that the ‘ same ’ cell can be studied in preparation after preparation , its connections and the effects of stimulating or excising it followed in detail — something that is quite impossible in any of the organisms yet discussed in this chapter ( Figure 7.5 ) . |
| 6 | And the needs of people with learning difficulties and their carers , above all , can not be defined and prescribed independently of the process of encouraging and helping them to welcome opportunities and change . |
| 7 | The barn was big and roomy , and they had always been able to play the noisiest games in it without fear of disturbing or upsetting anyone , for there was nobody living within half a mile of it . |
| 8 | A CRUEL stepfather who force-fed two young boys with spider sandwiches was convicted yesterday of starving and beating them . |
| 9 | I should like the opportunity of starving and beating you to a pulp . |
| 10 | This is their main means of improving and updating their catalogue of songs . |
| 11 | Nor does he flesh out the suggestion of improving and extending our knowledge of appearances through the mediation of hypothetical conjectures about hidden causes , causes which are ‘ evidenced ’ by appearances . |
| 12 | Serfs were tied to the land which they cultivated , with little opportunity of changing or improving their position . |
| 13 | Another thing we noticed was this : as they were leg-weary they wore their shoes out more quickly ; these town horses often did up to forty mile on the road during the day , and they got into the habit of sliding and dragging their feet . |
| 14 | The Steam Tank has no armour saving roll — instead its thick iron skin is represented by a very high toughness of 10 , and enemies will need a very high strength to stand any chance of crushing or piecing its armoured shell . |
| 15 | The first duty of the conqueror , he wrote , ‘ is to maintain his domination and to assure that it will last ; everything is good which has the effect of consolidating and guaranteeing it , everything is bad that may weaken or compromise it ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I would n't bet against him getting just one against United and burying it . ’ |
| 17 | The hotel we were headed for was in the centre of the city , a nightmare ride with everybody driving like crazy and blaring their horns . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , God … ! ’ she groaned , blushing like mad and lowering her head to hide her face in his chest . |
| 19 | Push the pictured tiles around the playing area , matching like with like and making them disappear — when two similar designs are placed adjacent to each other , they 're destroyed . |
| 20 | Imagine having rope or flex wrapped round your neck and threatened with strangling or having your ears cut off . |
| 21 | This short series is aimed at getting you started with QBasic and getting you to write real programs as quickly as possible . |
| 22 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |
| 23 | The accused also deny charges of conspiring to cause an explosion , having the bomb with intent and possessing it in suspicious circumstances . |
| 24 | ‘ We arrived back at Blackpool and after the usual checks with Special and refuelling I went over to the waiting ambulance to join the reception committee . |
| 25 | Mr Budgen said : ‘ The Government 's actions have been disgraceful , describing Maastricht as an issue of confidence in private and denying it in public . |
| 26 | He entered Parliament in 1979 in the election which brought the Tories to power , capturing Ealing North from Labour and increasing his majority progressively ever since . |
| 27 | Damn Rune for kissing her in public and making her vulnerable to this barely disguised attack . |
| 28 | Wait for the opponent to move , or force him to pull his weight off the front foot before sweeping or hooking it . |
| 29 | It was a warm , spring morning and I was lying in the garden , reflecting on life in general and taking it easy , when I heard this music coming from the top-floor flat where the windows were all open — and there was somebody singing . |
| 30 | If smoking is allowed it stops people doing it in secret and making it into a clever or fashionable thing to do |