Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of locational specifications in general can be gauged from the fact that there seem to be two basic ways of referring to objects — by describing or naming them on the one hand , and by locating them on the other ( Lyons , 1977a : 648 ) . |
| 2 | If he had known his man , and cared for what he knew , he could have battered Albany 's son and heir into surrender , instead of hauling his horse off from crushing or smothering him in the mud . |
| 3 | He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends . |
| 4 | The putting of the city to the ban , or devoting it to the Lord , as the RSV puts it , is part of Joshua 's final orders to the people on the seventh day , and receives no mention in God 's initial instructions to him . |
| 5 | He seemed more likely to blow a kiss than to throw a punch ; to be at a dinner-table than to be down in the dives ; to be rubbing shoulders than to be shoving or sticking it to the comfortable ( I almost said to the bourgeoisie . ) |
| 6 | The LC layer is used as a shutter , blocking light or transmitting it onto a screen . |
| 7 | If you try to make life complicated for yourself by using the wrong tool or handling it in an inappropriate fashion then the result is solely your responsibility . |
| 8 | Less practical is physical destruction like squashing or bashing them on the head . |
| 9 | This duty does not extend to protecting the economic welfare of the employee by taking out insurance or warning them of the need for insurance cover . |
| 10 | This operation may be put in two-address form by placing the editing pattern in the destination string ( where it will be overwritten ) , or inserting it as a string of " micro-operations " in the instruction stream . |
| 11 | And then they started recruiting or or or promoting them from the ranks you know . |
| 12 | The trap to be avoided here is to turn the exercise into another source of demand by forcing yourself to go faster every day , swearing that you are going to beat your partner next time , or overdoing it with the weights . |
| 13 | It came as something of a shock to the Poles to realise that the Kaszubians saw no difference between selling their land to a Pole or selling it to a German . |
| 14 | The draftsman should therefore consider whether the landlord should have the right to enter the demise for other purposes also ( eg testing the property , taking samples from it or measuring it for the purpose of rent review ) . |
| 15 | Alternatively , you could use a medium-weight microfibre , wool or a wool mix , leaving it unlined , or lining it with the fabric of your choice . |
| 16 | This does not mean changing the character of the river , or turning it into a canal . |
| 17 | Getting him to eat was no problem , but preventing him throwing his food around or trampling it into the floor was . |
| 18 | In the early stages it was finding them a deal , or moving them to the next level up . ’ |
| 19 | Diluting it and mixing in it into slurry lagoons or spreading it at a low rate on grassland was a method used in the past , but even that may not be possible now . |
| 20 | The pervading atmosphere is one of the 1910s and 1920s , and the tone is set by the holiday houses hiding , like Undertown , among macracarpa trees , or braving it on the cliff with their faces looking to the Atlantic . |
| 21 | Additionally the ADC-10 can perform many functions that are only currently available on expensive digital storage oscilloscope such as saving waveforms to disk , or sending them to a printer . |
| 22 | The seller must be someone who is hiring the vehicle under a hire purchase agreement or buying it under a conditional sale agreement . |
| 23 | The 1964 Act , then , gives protection to a bona fide private purchaser who buys a motor vehicle unaware that the seller is hiring or buying it under a hire purchase or conditional sale agreement . |
| 24 | Or he could wash cars , polish shoes or more lucratively , engage in the growing underground economy selling rare commodities at home or smuggling them across the border to nearby Zaire . |
| 25 | In recent years the courts have frequently granted an injunction to restrain a defendant to a civil action from disposing of any of his assets , or removing them from the jurisdiction of the court . |
| 26 | for delivering it from one part of his premises to another part of his premises , or for delivering it from his premises to the premises of , or between parts of premises of , another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles or removing it from the premises of another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles direct to his own premises ; |
| 27 | The final goal of all the Waldens , Dimblebys , and Days is to hit the headlines on the news broadcasts ( or in the next day 's papers ) by tripping up their interviewee or extorting an apology from him , or convicting him of a contradiction . |
| 28 | Zacchaeus became reconciled to God because Jesus , instead of ignoring him or treating him like an outcast , had deliberately gone out of his way to meet and befriend him . |
| 29 | We argue out the whys and wherefores of putting our aged relatives in geriatric homes , taking early retirement , buying a pet for the children , or taking them to the circus . |
| 30 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |