Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [noun] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he was simply jealous of the time I spent with her , instead of sitting on the other side of the gas fire , knitting or darning socks while he marked his school books . |
| 2 | The coroner sat forlornly at the desk in his chamber , his little chancery or writing office as he called it , a place he loved , at the back of the house away from noisy Cheapside . |
| 3 | ‘ A lot of companies have in-house reprographics or printing facilities and we aim to get involved in advising them how to use these facilities better through a consultancy service . ’ |
| 4 | Consider adding a border to the leading edges and making tie-backs to match ; or having tie-backs where none existed before . |
| 5 | Neither the Conservatives nor Labour , therefore , had a chance of retaining or obtaining office unless they abandoned for the time being the principal position which they fought the election to obtain . |
| 6 | This is where you must enter information regarding the particular printer and knitting machine that you have . |
| 7 | Add to this an enhanced macro language , support for over 550 printers , a thesaurus , calculator , file manager , table of contents and indexing features and you 've got one heavy duty word processor . |
| 8 | Proprietors do appoint editors and chief-executives ; they decide budgets and manning levels and they put their imprint on the total organizations . |
| 9 | In these sorts of circumstances , the teacher 's predominant practical concern is not with the learning experiences of individual students , but with the overall ‘ instructional flow ’ of the lesson with how well it is proceeding to its intended conclusion and maintaining order as it does so . |
| 10 | Catering students also tested out their waitering and waitressing skills as they attempted to deliver trays on the back of a human ‘ camel ’ . |
| 11 | But her natural good manners got the better of her and she found herself saying ‘ good evening ’ and reminding Penelope that they had met at the vicarage . |
| 12 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 13 | It was only in the hotels and catering industry that we encountered a widespread use of temporary working which was not only called casual working by the parties concerned but which also was likely to be , or had been , unequivocally accepted as such by labour courts . |
| 14 | of handling them through the , through the assessment and statementing process and it has implications in terms of finding the resources to support those children once the statements of provision are , are drawn up . |
| 15 | But it was the resulting tsunami that did the greater damage : it lumbered away to the north-west , speeding up and gathering energy as it did so . |
| 16 | By daylight it had been a sculptured shaft fluted with runnels of light and darkness , withdrawing stage by stage in charmed proportion , shedding weight and gaining impetus as it soared . |
| 17 | You went on to do sterling work in the diarrhoea , headaches and vomiting department and you ended up coughing out your last in a way that Henry thought would be entirely suitable for Elinor . |
| 18 | Oh yes varied , and there interesting , with , with children , particularly if they erm if I 'm doing workshops er with art and writing workshops and we come across an abstract picture , the children music , and , we , as a way into their vocabulary which is n't as large as their , their writing skills , and there 'll , there 'll decipher an abstract picture , wonderful language and I like doing that you know |
| 19 | Thus began the Peace Movement which continued through the remainder of the year with marches and hymnsinging rallies and which led to the award in 1977 of the Nobel Peace Prize to Mairead Corrigan and her co-founder , Mrs. Betty Williams . |
| 20 | Can I thank you for those generous comments that you say towards er , , I think they 're totally true , he 's worked extremely hard in making sure this council has a budget which balanced , and it 's due to his expertise and bullying tactics that we 've succeeded , and he should be fully congratulated for that , and I think it 's the determination of those who were elected in May as well , to make sure that we protected services and jobs , and , and make sure that we actually carried out the mandate which the electors elected us to do that we have such ach achieved what we have achieved today . |
| 21 | The path has to be found between making an exquisite distillation , using a chemistry wholly the property of the observer and his audience , and presenting arguments as they occur , fragmented , irregular . |
| 22 | So erm but of course we had er a buying and selling guide if you like . |
| 23 | Sometimes , when one meteorite is discovered another may be visible nearby , but much more commonly four searchers may ride abreast over long stretches of blue ice and drifting snow before anyone sees a meteorite . |
| 24 | He attempted to rape another girl , but her friends came to the rescue by kicking and punching Jones until he left her alone . |
| 25 | From what I can see , stagedivers consist of both ‘ nice ’ and ‘ nasty ’ people — the nasty attempting to cause as much pain as they possibly can by kicking and punching people as they land . |
| 26 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 27 | With empathy , we try to imagine what it is like being the other person and experiencing things as he does . |
| 28 | Looking for a house or flat means taking lots of details from estate agents and viewing properties if they take your fancy . |
| 29 | Well seeing a lot of people , going out and doing things and I do n't know , just been really busy . |
| 30 | In that way , I think they 'd be much more prepared for learning the skill than if they go completely unprepared and see children looking at books and saying things and it makes no sense to them . |