Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wickens would not dream of handing selection or filtering to anyone else , whether the union or a local government . |
| 2 | As we noted before , one of the prime concerns of teachers is that they do not have enough time to carry out the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities of their jobs to their own satisfaction , let alone to invest in enhancing their own skills , or reflecting on their roles and priorities , to anything like the extent which they would like . |
| 3 | It allows you to extract text to file or printer for later reading or including in your own word processing documents . |
| 4 | To begin to remedy this emotional block , start to notice when you are looking for praise or recognition , and in doing so , start talking about or bringing to someone else 's notice something you have not done so well . |
| 5 | Keeping the thumb in this position gives strength to the fist and prevents the thumb from sticking out or catching on something during a fight , and fracturing or breaking . |
| 6 | They mainly showed dragons — dragons by the hundred , in flight or hanging from their perch rings , dragons with men on their backs hunting down deer and , sometimes , other men . |
| 7 | AN academic has been banned from sleeping or eating in her office at Stirling University after being told it was so cluttered with papers and food that it constituted a health and fire hazard . |
| 8 | Whether preparing solo meals , feeding a family , or cooking for your own enjoyment — here 's everything you need for superb results ! |
| 9 | There 's nothing human like hearing or seeing or pitying or helping about him . |
| 10 | Was I respecting the life within me , or pandering to my own healthy terror or going through what Alice went through ? |
| 11 | They may also come to contract for the community health and care services their patients need , taking over from the social services departments or competing with them . |
| 12 | Store in a tin for up to one week before icing or using in our Present Perfect recipe . |
| 13 | This cake can be stored in a tin for up to one month before icing or using in our Present Perfect recipe . |
| 14 | Apart from that , I have n't the least interest in whether you choose to kill yourself by falling from a great height , or crashing into something at high speed . ’ |
| 15 | Section 3(2) provides that a person dealing with a consumer , or contracting on his/her own written standard terms : can not by reference to any contract term — ( a ) when himself in breach of contract , exclude or restrict any liability of his in respect of the breach ; or ( b ) claim to be entitled — ( i ) to render a contractual performance substantially different from that which was reasonably expected of him , or ( ii ) in respect of the whole or any part of his contractual obligation , to render no performance at all , except in so far as … the contract term satisfies the requirement of reasonableness . |
| 16 | At the moment , we do not have the resources , knowledge or understanding with which to do so . |
| 17 | ( 9 ) The number of shares offered for ( when aggregated with the existing holdings of shares and rights over shares of the buyer and persons acting by agreement or understanding with him within the meaning of the SARs ) must not amount to 30 per cent or more of the voting rights of the company . |
| 18 | Having already been severely admonished by his father , the young man despaired of finding any sympathy or understanding from his immediate family , always , however , with the exception of his mother . |
| 19 | As children , we all got up to tricks like pinching a few apples or knocking on someone 's door and running away — all rather harmless , but if our parents found out , we would be in for a good hiding , a cut on the backside . |
| 20 | Dame Edna Everage may make us laugh at prejudice , but are we smiling or laughing at ourselves ? |
| 21 | Instead of rushing to a telephone box less than 40 yards away or walking to her nearby home , Joanna trudged to the leisure centre . |
| 22 | He could be out on the patio , or walking among his lemon groves . |
| 23 | Third , the motorist did NOT ( contrry to The Scotsman 's report ) spend any time looking for a parking space or walking from it to his destination . |
| 24 | Thus to love or hate you , it may not be enough that your actions in your own interests make all the difference between success and failure for my highest hopes ; but it may be enough , even if nothing you do has any bearing on my projects , that in being drawn to or shrinking from your viewpoint I feel myself in touch with a personality of which the total pattern attracts or repels my own . |
| 25 | Look for small animals attached to the leaf or crowding around it for food . |
| 26 | In spite of the pill he kept waking and hearing the old men around him coughing or mumbling in their sleep . |
| 27 | But if I went to Joyce and told him that his men were doing something that was n't fair to the police , trying us too hard or interfering with our time off , he 'd have his men right off that job in half an hour and there 'd be no grumbling . ’ |
| 28 | The vigour , sometimes amounting to brutality , with which she utilized her seapower in time of war , by wholesale interference with neutral shipping carrying contraband or trading with her enemies , did much to increase the hostility with which she was now widely regarded . |
| 29 | More revisionist radical elite theorists have an alternative concept , ‘ technocracy ’ , to describe administrative elites who operate primarily in their own interests , or according to their own professional norms , rather than being beholden to outside elites . |
| 30 | If a small child is asked to group a set of objects he may gather together items according to their colour ( for example , all brown objects ) or according to their normal use ( for example , all cutlery ) . |