Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And those who take part in groups have to show a parallel commitment to working within the spirit of the process ; putting as much energy into listening as in talking , staying on task , collaborating rather than competing in the pursuit of common objectives . |
| 2 | When driving in the countryside you often see walking human haystacks — people , who have been out cutting grass for their cows , returning home and walking down the road often with only their legs showing beneath their enormous bundles . |
| 3 | A district with a high under 75 years standardised mortality ratio will tend to have people dying earlier than expected in the younger age groups , and applying national average rates of use of service to those groups will underestimate its relative need for health services . |
| 4 | My dressing room is tiny — six feet square — and Cats has to sit on the floor of the Green Room propped against my open door , writing furiously while coping with the pranks of the dwarfs . |
| 5 | Canny Ulster investors showed their preference for saving rather than spending during the recession , putting £204m into the societies ' coffers last year , compared to £175m in 1991 and just £61m in 1990 . |
| 6 | In a broader sense it includes all relatives living together or accepted as a family , including adopted persons . |
| 7 | That means keeping one 's ears and eyes open , it means not looking away but acting as a witness . |
| 8 | If we could succeed in defining accurately and agreeing upon the meaning of the terms which we are employing , then I am afraid the House of Commons would be very largely deserted . |
| 9 | Pausing there and turning to the judgment , Lord Denman C.J. stated , at p. 682 , that the court did not proceed on any doctrine as to relation of principal and surety . |
| 10 | By spreading his proposals over the next three years Norman Lamont sent out the message that he was looking ahead and planning for the future , said Mr Wellerd . |
| 11 | All right then — ’ he edged closer so that he was whispering rather than shouting over the juke-box ‘ — here 's the nastiest rumour I 've ever heard about Steenie — really nasty rumour . |
| 12 | Well somebody said to me , when I get to traffic lights instead of turning right and going through the bar I turn left and go , as if I 'm off up to North Cross . |
| 13 | As Reid led the patient with the bloody head indoors , the white man turned to me , almost stopped me from going inside and said in an educated voice , ‘ Good morning , Doctor , and welcome to Koraloona . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've never implored in your life , ’ Ruth murmured , resting her wet head on his shirt for a second before pulling away and perching on the edge of the lounger . |
| 15 | Mansell locked his brakes up and span off , his car turning backwards and colliding into the wall at about 75mph in a cloud of debris which included his right front wheel . |
| 16 | He tried to catch the attendant 's eye but the man was already turning away and reaching for the nozzle of the pump hose . |
| 17 | Dora glared after him for a few seconds before turning away and striding across the garden towards the orchard . |
| 18 | Perhaps not going home but booking into a hotel and |
| 19 | The way in which the school is perceived by the local community may depend not only on overt performance indicators such as language and numeracy skills but also on covert performance indicators such as how the pupils behave on the bus going home or smoking outside the school premises . |
| 20 | COOK OVER A HOT BARBECUE FIRE OR UNDER A MODERATE GRILL TURNING FREQUENTLY AND BASTING WITH THE MARINADE FOR 15–20 MINUTES . |
| 21 | Work should therefore be rapid and finish in time for the Louvre 's exhibition of ‘ The Marriage at Cana ’ which is going ahead as scheduled at the end of September . |
| 22 | The track continues uphill , soon levelling to pass between the walls of Fell lane , going forward but constricted for a long and uninteresting mile with Ingleborough out of sight and little worthy of note along the way apart from a large rock embedded in the lane and known as Giant 's Grave . |
| 23 | Where productivity is higher the carpet thickens and becomes peaty ; Allen and Heal ( 1970 ) reported moss peat up to 2 m thick , overlying rather than mixing with the mineral soil beneath . |
| 24 | First , they have argued that the gradual increase in peasant investment and in levels of consumption both of food and consumer goods in the countryside suggests that , abjectly poor though many were , on average peasant living standards may have been rising rather than falling in the decades immediately prior to the revolution of 1905 . |
| 25 | I do n't mind managers getting together and having in a sense management buy- outs . |
| 26 | Other circles were within sight , the most notable being the famed Druid temple known as Callanish ; and my imagination , I must own , was discovering Druid circles or single Druid stones wherever grey rocks were seen rising above or bedded in the dark moor . |
| 27 | He asked you to pretend that he was staying here and going to the symposium on a daily basis . |
| 28 | Head large , with large eyes facing forwards and set in a flattened facial disc , whose feathers usually conceal the short hooked bill . |
| 29 | We have suggested techniques for creating continuity through the different sections of your essay , by linking together and signposting for a reader the various points you make . |
| 30 | In the case of the curious ‘ rodent-run ’ display , it is as if the bird is running away and hiding at the same time . |