Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [noun pl] [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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Consider adding a border to the leading edges and making tie-backs to match ; or having tie-backs where none existed before . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Proprietors do appoint editors and chief-executives ; they decide budgets and manning levels and they put their imprint on the total organizations . |
| 6 | Catering students also tested out their waitering and waitressing skills as they attempted to deliver trays on the back of a human ‘ camel ’ . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | With empathy , we try to imagine what it is like being the other person and experiencing things as he does . |
| 13 | Looking for a house or flat means taking lots of details from estate agents and viewing properties if they take your fancy . |
| 14 | Well seeing a lot of people , going out and doing things and I do n't know , just been really busy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | RSPB official Stan Davies said : ‘ The area is important to migrating and wintering birds as it remains frost-free . ’ |
| 18 | The Moorings ' holidays offered through Caribbean Connection range from fully crewed charter to combined hotel and sailing holidays where you stay at an hotel on Tortola or St Lucia , either learning to sail or combining the pleasures of a beach holiday with sailing . |
| 19 | I 'm just a little bit concerned that if we do delay it while discussions are going on about the unitary authorities and such like , we 'll put restrictions on Mr running it as a commercial enterprise , and I think we have got to make sure that any long term deferral on this , we do n't inhibit him rationalising selling off the odd cottage and this sort of thing , and the farmhouse as we go along , and amalgamating ones because I think it 's , he 's got to be able to run it as a commercial proposition during the course of deliberations . |
| 20 | We can use this approach through postponing decisions , meetings and finding solutions until we have all the necessary information and all the right people present . |
| 21 | ‘ They are going out and pinching cars because they 've got no money and nothing else to do . |
| 22 | I could see through slitted eyes many people who had the comfort of being three-dimensional , walking and talking words that I knew . |
| 23 | As with all denizens of Fairyland , the glastyn may be perverse as well as benign by turn , and reports have been noted of those who have run amok , raping women and destroying crops if they have been slighted in any way . |
| 24 | ‘ In a smaller firm there was [ would be ] a great deal of personal cooperation with people giving and receiving favours as they collaborated about their tasks , and ‘ there was a lack of competition and everything was worked out in a fair-deal way ’ . |
| 25 | Her greatest interest seems to be in writing and receiving letters and she watches television , plays music and reads , usually magazines not books . |
| 26 | You can link them to show that one task has to be completed before another can be started , and rearranging tasks if you make a mistake is no problem — you simply drag them to where you want them . |
| 27 | Erm I would say that in the past the loyalist paramilitaries , apart from the obvious thing which was easy going out just and killing catholics as they 've been doing recently . |