Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any system which is exhaustively described by Figure 9 would be incapable of repeating nonsense words or reading them aloud or writing them to dictation . |
| 2 | ‘ When we have so many spare rooms here it seemed eminently sensible , much better than allowing you to travel backwards and forwards . ’ |
| 3 | Better than finding them in a flap and fearing higher rates , as they were a week ago . |
| 4 | The actual income of a kadi depended not only — or even principally — on his allowance , of course , but also on fees of various kinds ; and it may well be that if indeed the kadis of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to receive allowances of only 300 akce a day down to Hezarfen 's time , they did so because their allowances represented a relatively insignificant proportion of the monies they actually received , so that raising them to match the importance of the kadiliks was not a matter of particular moment . |
| 5 | Instead of facing some fierce wild animal alone and killing it armed only with courage and a spear , he now channels his competitive instinct into his job , or sport . ’ |
| 6 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
| 7 | Such a threat is credible only if carrying it out would impose little loss on the person terminating the contract . |
| 8 | We need to admit that for many older churches it takes much longer to change and also that a more traditional style can be helpful to many in finding Christ personally and following him radically . |
| 9 | I 'm not , I must admit I do n't think about it now , so if wearing it puts you off . |
| 10 | He had turned to look at her , slipping off his coat as he did so and tossing it carelessly over the back of one of the armchairs . |
| 11 | ‘ We found a few , ’ he told her , answering her question about the mussels , pulling off his jacket as he did so and draping it carelessly over the back of the chair . |
| 12 | Over the years , the departments have moved closer together and combining them will also lead to efficiency savings for the authority . |
| 13 | He had what seemed to me a great genius for — how can I put it ? — drawing the orchestra together and controlling it as a single expressive instrument . |
| 14 | and then just joined those that were easy to join together and building it up that way , but he 's doing curls on the bottom of G's and |
| 15 | What he had n't counted on was the tunnel effect of putting five together and pointing them into a wind that came more or less straight from the Urals after turning left over Norway . |
| 16 | If a break does occur the wire tends to coil up , and it is easy to make the mistake of just tying the broken ends together and towing it straight back to the launch point for the next launch . |
| 17 | Only hours before she had been trying to pull herself together and thinking she might be winning ; now the future was an aching black void . |
| 18 | Lucinda jumped to her feet , collecting cups , plates and cutlery together and placing them on the tray . |
| 19 | He shuffled papers , bringing them together and placing them to one side , face downwards . |
| 20 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 21 | And you can then also couple between keyboards so that if you want to you can play the sounds from this keyboard on the lower one by coupling the two together and making them work as a pair , but that removes the inde independency of being able to set one against the other . |
| 22 | erm as regards correlating things together and bunging them into the same factor analysis model and stuff like that er even if the questions are a bit different I think you can still do that legitimately because it 's still sort of expressing the strength of opinion on some sort of scale erm so I do n't see that that 'll er interfere with the ambitions you 've got as regards the data erm so er |
| 23 | Taking the two dimensions together and applying them , as above , in a four-fold scheme , produces what I have called the ‘ bird-watcher ’ method , the laboratory observation , participant observation and the standardized interview . |
| 24 | Sh they 're like all clubbing together and giving her some money to go in with cos she 's got to have some money to go in with . |
| 25 | For one thing , it would have been warmer , she thought , wriggling her shoulders defensively and wishing she 'd brought a jacket . |
| 26 | ‘ Bringing the poor gel 'ome an' givin' 'er 'is bed . ’ |
| 27 | I remember a horrifying dream I had during one Wimbledon wherein I was sitting on top of a tall step-ladder half-way down the garden in the umpire 's position — not awarding points to the thrusting vegetation below but conducting them with a baton . |
| 28 | Escaping is bad enough but doing it in the middle of the night is inexcusable . |
| 29 | Mr Waddington was apparently considering allowing them to take into account the need to protect the public from even quite minor offences . |
| 30 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |