Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scarcely a day passes without us reading in the newspapers or seeing on television assaults , batteries , violent acts of all kinds . |
| 2 | The BO4510 Palm Sander is the ideal tool for all those small awkward jobs involving sanding into tight corners or confined spaces , or sanding between staircase rail supports . |
| 3 | A series of disasters involving public safety travelling or spectating at sports stadiums have occurred since 1985 . |
| 4 | ‘ My job is to effect the disentanglement , with the University having a clear view of how successful the press is , and the extent to which it is calling on or contributing to University funds , ’ says David Martin . |
| 5 | Well forgive me , the , the reason for that is , it was explained at the time if one 's going to defend the decision of where you 're going to put your roads , then you 've got in reality look at all them options ridiculous some they will be , whether they dig tunnels under the Orwell or knocking down Wordsworth Road I mean it 's all got to be looked at . |
| 6 | I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley . |
| 7 | Finally avoid wearing nylon clothes or walking on nylon carpet if at all possible . |
| 8 | The breeding , rearing , or fattening of beef cattle can be viable in the right conditions , although it is hard to make a profit on a very small scale . |
| 9 | And he does not like to be reminded of the gaffes he made as deputy chairman — branding the young unemployed as workshy , or musing on Radio Ulster whether Ian Paisley might like to be prime minister of a united Ireland . |
| 10 | Paragraphs classifying as Investment Business the acquisition or disposal of shares in a body corporate ( other than an open-ended investment company ) or relating to investment advice given in connection with the acquisition or disposal of such shares do not apply if : |
| 11 | In more complex markets , the agreements may take the form of dividing up the market geographically or according to product type . |
| 12 | Now I mentioned that this was Chest Week and it 's the first time that the er Chest , Heart and Stroke Association have had a , a , a week specifically aimed at people with chest problems , or , or looking at chest problems . |
| 13 | The latter are not exclusively practical in the sense of always utilizing apparatus , but instead might include tasks such as reading tabular data or looking for number patterns . |
| 14 | Groups of soldiers on the streets of Plzeň , lounging or looking in shop windows . |
| 15 | We returned to our chamber and spent the rest of the day preparing for the banquet or listening to Doctor Agrippa . |
| 16 | ( 21 ) Performing or listening to period music . |
| 17 | The US scientist Ronald Bracewell seems to have been the first to have suggested that sending or listening for radio signals is a haphazard business and almost certainly doomed to failure , because the task of covering the millions of ‘ likely ’ stars is well-nigh impossible . |
| 18 | The invited speakers are either themselves practising in the clinical area or currently speaking or writing about childbirth matters . |
| 19 | Compared to 1983 , let alone 1979 , Labour appears to be more aware of a changed electorate , one which is not largely poor , unemployed , in trade unions , working in heavy manufacturing , or living in council houses . |
| 20 | Secondly , many of the ‘ interactions ’ are actually mediated by other organisms , usually micro-organisms , whether they be involved in allelopathic phenomena in succession , or are gut microbes in primate stomachs , or mycorrhizae , or fixing nitrogen , or living in ant nests or fig syconia or the guts of termites , or perhaps involved in promoting pig migrations . |
| 21 | Girls wishing to avoid such a fate should shun wearing or passing near fairy flowers , such as clumps of harebells or love-in-idleness . |
| 22 | The following statement , for instance , suggests that in indexing or searching for Folk drama , both of the terms Drama and Folk Culture should be used : |
| 23 | The next challenge is for stuffing or dressing for game birds . |
| 24 | For now , pen software is good for data collection where users are picking from pre-defined lists , or marking in check boxes . |
| 25 | My dad was tied up with Dickens or waiting for General Franco to turn up . |
| 26 | Women first appeared as station employees in Europe on tasks such as carriage-cleaning or waiting in refreshment rooms . |
| 27 | For social deixis is concerned with the grammaticalization , or encoding in language structure , of social information , while sociolinguistics is also , and perhaps primarily , concerned with issues of language usage . |
| 28 | Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother . |
| 29 | We have had a very good year , thanks to the indefatigable Bugs sitting behind me , who is either fitting the boats out or going to New Zealand to win races or taking Guide Dogs for the Blind sponsored trips round greek flotillas er everything comes to him readily . |
| 30 | Secondly , these falling yields mean that it is becoming cheaper for firms and individuals to borrow by issuing new claims like bonds and equities or going to building societies , by comparison with borrowing from banks . |