Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No prizes for guessing what happens to the net — and you are left with the task of extricating the hedgehog without damaging the net or wasting too much time . |
| 2 | Feel yourself striding or dawdling along . |
| 3 | Acts to enable river navigations to be improved , necessary because the building of locks , new cuts or dredging often affected the interests of local landowners , farmers and especially millers , went back as far as the sixteenth century but were consolidated in a veritable spate of river improvement after the Restoration . |
| 4 | Lifting heavy objects , gaining weight , sneezing or coughing violently , and even constipation can exacerbate an existing weakness and result in a painful mass of intestine bursting through the groin muscles . |
| 5 | Even though they are no longer working or bringing up children , their time is as precious to them as ours is to us . |
| 6 | Whether or not you will be asked to pay for your course remains at the discretion of course organisers and managers , therefore , and I am unable to give any hard and fast guidance here , other than to say that they will have to be kept at a reasonable level to be affordable , particularly by those who have been unemployed or bringing up a family . |
| 7 | ‘ THis gave the nurses and doctors plenty of time to plan patient treatment — delaying or bringing forward operations . |
| 8 | The management had a choice of throwing out the canteen manager or bringing out the paper . |
| 9 | They often do this by letting out or bringing in their mooring line , so keep an eye on them to see which direction they move it in , if at all . |
| 10 | The orthodox visualized themselves cutting through the wire or bringing off some unprecedented bluff at the main gate . |
| 11 | He will present MPs with three options — total deregulation , limited opening times , or allowing only shops selling ‘ emergency ’ supplies to open . |
| 12 | The rest of the morning I might spend at the beach , in season , or in the park or a café , reading or catching up on my correspondence , or chatting to friends and acquaintances , as the whim took me . |
| 13 | He would wait for an hour or so , reading a newspaper or catching up on paperwork , then he would go to the McCausland counter and hire a car . |
| 14 | Faced with the choice of reinventing itself or hanging up its boots , 88open , the supporters club for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC vendors , is said to be finalising a plan to offer its conformance testing expertise to the industry at large , via a separate organisation that will develop and implement test suites for suppliers of other RISC architectures and consortia like PowerOpen or Sparc International it sees as potential customers . |
| 15 | Faced with the choice of reinventing itself or hanging up its boots , 88open , the supporters club for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC vendors , is reportedly finalising a plan to offer up its conformance testing expertise to the industry at large , via a separate organisation that will develop and port test suites for suppliers of other RISC architectures and consortia like PowerOpen or Sparc International it sees as potential customers . |
| 16 | This involved being around , or hanging around , just watching , recording , holding conversations . |
| 17 | As Bourn did not boast an anemometer we had to quickly learn wind speed by other means , such as how much or how little the trees were bending in the wind and whether the distant windsock was at full stretch or hanging limply from its staff . |
| 18 | They also have not yet learned to use their eyes together ( called binocular vision ) , so they may be seeing double or seeing only through one eye . |
| 19 | They were speaking a foreign language , or so it sounded to him — quite different from the priest 's — and many were groaning pitifully , or struggling painfully to get to their feet . |
| 20 | Not all alternatives are looked at , rather those most familiar to decision-makers or deviating least from existing practice are examined first , in order to cut down the information and transition costs associated with more radical changes . |
| 21 | If you work out how much you would have spent in the bar , clubbing or eating out over the weekend and subtract it from the cost of the trip it all seems cheaper than ever . |
| 22 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 23 | I just do n't want to be the kind of person who suddenly disappears and , in ten years , people say ‘ Hey , I wonder what happened to that guy ? ’ … when I 'm living in misery on a council estate or eating out of rubbish bins . ’ |
| 24 | Clearly , it can not be a comprehensive dictionary of every word used in science , but the editors have shrewdly picked those likely to cause problems or confusion — distinguishing Zygomycetes from Zygomycotina , for instance , or helping to spell Richard Adolf Zsigmondy 's name , or reminding how many letters are doubled in old-fashioned arsenurretted hydrogen . |
| 25 | We all need training and it is the key to starting or sharpening up your personal injury department . |
| 26 | The slick editing and second-hand New Wave tricks can not save the film from being too thin and too contrived , and rarely amusing or touching enough . |
| 27 | Add a border or binding down the leading and bottom edges of curtains for a real interior designer touch . |
| 28 | So Helena wishes that there will be no arguments or slanging , slagging matches is it slanging or slagging off ? |
| 29 | And this is of course , as if I agree with the view that you expressed yesterday in a general context , although it was made specifically then in relation to one village , any recommendation I make in relation to that village , if it is based on the general principle , must apply by analogy also to Skelton , and I would have little choice but to recommend to the councils that they may wish or indeed they should , reconsider this question of washing-over or insetting elsewhere . |
| 30 | Gracie Fields had a tremendous faculty of projection , perhaps stemming from her old Music Hall days , and she never needed a microphone for her ringing voice ; either belting out ‘ Its the Biggest Aspidistra in the World ’ , or singing gently ‘ Sally ’ , each syllable was heard in every corner of the huge auditorium . |