Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He read it through , a touch uneasy that its jocularity might displease Newton but knowing that it told Newton what he wanted to know . |
| 2 | We can test the usefulness of wide-ranging theories of juvenile delinquency by reading books like The Jack-Roller and seeing if they bear any resemblance to the theory . |
| 3 | His grandmother , living in luxury in the Plaza Hotel in Buenos Aires and grumbling because she had to wash her own stockings , claimed she had no money even to pay her own bills . |
| 4 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 5 | " There 's rules about who can ride up with the driver , " I said looking at John Russell and wondering if he had any ideas . |