Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man charged : Steven Leach , 35 , of The Close , Walton , appeared at Liverpool today charged with abducting and indecently assaulting a boy of four , and was remanded in custody until Friday , after a massive police search . |
| 2 | She knew that he had two grown-up daughters of his own and would scarcely have approved of aiding and abetting or even allowing a girl of Liza 's age to be left in any compromising situation with a young married man . |
| 3 | If you see someone attempting or actually stealing a vehicle , or see someone acting suspiciously near vehicles — ring the police immediately . |
| 4 | The eye does not sweep smoothly from left to right when reading but instead makes a series of fixations with rapid movements ( saccades ) between fixations . |
| 5 | In 1960 , when Gen Noriega was both a cadet at an elite military academy in Peru and a spy-in-training for the US Defence Intelligence Agency , he was detained for allegedly raping and savagely beating a prostitute . |