Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the simplest level this means deciding that someone wearing , say , a skirt in our society is female and acting on the basis of this decision , or deciding that someone shouting at the top of his or her voice is excited or angry and acting accordingly . |
| 2 | A gold ring , now in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford , shows a priestess dancing and another woman apparently worshipping or dreaming as she reclines in a trance against some boulders . |
| 3 | Little Billy recognised Don Mini riding on a fine jay and he was waving and cheering as he flew alongside them . |
| 4 | Validation of the suffering individual , treating him or her with kindness , professional respect and dignity , being open and honest , separating the awareness of the disease from the understanding of the suffering human being , following the distorted reasoning and disturbed actions and accepting that they appeared to the sufferer to be most appropriate at the time they were committed . |
| 5 | He started by going to unofficial advisers and seeing whether they agreed with his official adviser . |
| 6 | My boyfriend said he would stay at home and be the househusband and look after the children and do co co , the cleaning and cooking if I stayed at work . |
| 7 | She sought his mouth again , wrapping her arms around his neck , offering and receiving a kiss so fierce , impatient and demanding that she clung to him and she lost her balance , fell against him , felt him gather her up against the inflammatory hardness of his body and lift her on to the bed . |
| 8 | The Prester was believed to have written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus , enumerating the wonders of his kingdom , and affirming that he ruled over the three Indies and over seventy kings , and that twenty bishops , twelve archbishops and a patriarch acknowledged his authority . |
| 9 | In it the pope said nothing about homage , and argued temperately against lay investitures , minimizing their importance , and denying that he sought for himself any increase of authority or any diminution of the king 's due power . |
| 10 | At least , out here , I have — I admit this with shame — I have delivered an extended breech with the nurse giving chloroform at one end and praying and me delivering at the other end and swearing , and the baby lived , the mother lived , and everything was all right . |
| 11 | Then , assuming " phantom " chains , the change in free energy per chain as the end-to-end vector R changes to is Averaging over all chains and remembering that we have For a network of n chains per unit volume the change in free energy will be n times this . |
| 12 | The evaluation of processes in sign which are presented in this chapter arise in this context , such that results are available to inform our theories of perceiving and remembering as they apply to spoken language . |
| 13 | There is a particularly fine example in the last pas de deux of La Fille Mal Gardée where Lise and Colas weave themselves into an embrace which is so tender , gentle and loving that it arrives at the end of a phrase as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 14 | A car was coming up the track at high speed , creaking and groaning as it went over the bumps . |
| 15 | She settled the old lady on a stretcher near the door , so that she could see the sunlit complex , and the happy holidaymakers laughing and shouting as they played in the pool , their conversations a mixture of Spanish and English . |
| 16 | Across the water , the loud hailers were blaring and squealing as they had in the winter , when Tzani-bey had caught and herded the Order . |
| 17 | Sometimes new uses for a well-established term are so strange and mystifying that they refuse to ‘ take ’ . |
| 18 | Coughing and spluttering as she gasped for air , Laura was jerked into consciousness by the sound of a high-pitched giggle and the feel of a wet kiss on her cheek . |
| 19 | The Methodists were nonetheless going from strength to strength , and noting that they listened to ‘ hearty , racy , cutting and unctuous speeches which surely would never be forgotten . ’ |
| 20 | Although she was trained , she was still a beginner — like me — and it was n't easy to settle her down in front of all those kids , who , naturally , were all pointing and whispering when we came into the classroom . |
| 21 | He was close , so close : his lips warm , tender and cherishing as they moved on hers . |
| 22 | Soaked , muddy and dejected ; children crying and adults becoming ill-tempered ; people jostling , arguing and complaining as they slipped in the mud . |
| 23 | In most housing a centre light fitting , for example , goes unquestioned , although people would find even daylight very harsh and glaring if it poured from the centre of the sky all day . |
| 24 | We 're laughing and panting as we clamber through the sucking stones . |
| 25 | Most day care , work projects , respite care , befriending , counselling , advocacy and welfare benefits work , as well as some direct personal care services provided at home , could be done by ‘ not-for-profit ’ organizations , and focusing as they do on one client group 's problems and having strong links with families , they are unlikely to lose their strong advocacy role . |
| 26 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 27 | Discussing statements like these and saying whether they agree with them or not gives children an opportunity to consider views which conflict with their own and to modify their existing views . |
| 28 | This particular accolade results from opinions given by our own buyers and coming as it does after four years of recession speaks volumes for our commitment to quality and customer care . |
| 29 | It was a disagreeable story and coming as it did after the impact of the portrait it provoked in Dalgliesh a mixture of depression and foreboding which he tried to shake off as irrational . |
| 30 | The old lady would have walked back to her villa , but Miguel stopped her by closing the door , and insisting that she wait for a golf cart . |