Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is rejected is the necessity or even possibility of maintaining or augmenting one 's social position through violence . |
| 2 | Ianthe always hurried past the vet 's house , fearful of seeing or hearing something dreadful . |
| 3 | But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all . |
| 4 | The thrill of seeing or touching something really old on a museum visit can be extremely important ( see Box 14 ) . |
| 5 | Once you are afflicted with this inverted mentality in which every thing that exists is a pale shadow of some abstract general principle , expressed in a compound-noun sandwich , you are incapable of seeing or saying anything clearly . |
| 6 | He says that he 's looking for birds preening or doing something which makes a good composition . |
| 7 | Most people were eating or drinking something : ice-cream , chips , hot-dogs , candy-floss , cans of Coke . |
| 8 | After visiting the bathroom , please measure yourself before eating or drinking anything . |
| 9 | I 'm not signing or changing anything Richard until we have exchanged contracts |
| 10 | The uncomposed art informel of Gillet and his friend Maurice Ronet ( who left art for the theatre ) has its moments , or rather its small passages , but this is not painting that makes one reconsider painting . |
| 11 | He drew deeply on the cigarette — hand-rolled , Matthew could not help noticing and hoped no-one else had — in his holder . |
| 12 | From such an analysis we can pick out causes and action points : we are then in a better position to understand what is happening and to do something about it . |
| 13 | Naturally I welcome the fact that the reforms are revealing the extent of NHS underfunding , but this will only be of benefit if you acknowledge what is happening and do something about it . |
| 14 | It seems to me , and we shall look at this in Chapter Seven when we examine the notion of unconscious learning in drama , that there is some truth in Brian Way 's claim that relishing and enjoying something without fully understanding it can be of value . |
| 15 | Advocacy means representing and pursuing someone else 's interests as if they were your own . |
| 16 | Napoleon marched through it on his way to Moscow , but today the road is used by those who wish to avoid the pressures of autobahn driving and see something of the pleasant , rolling countryside of Westphalia . |
| 17 | ‘ Not eating nor drinking anything , not even so much as a crumb . |
| 18 | If you wan na lo , if you wan na lose some go just go swimming or do something |
| 19 | All through the service , and all day and night , people come and go , moving intently along the walls , listening and reading everything . |
| 20 | ‘ Lookin' and saying nothing , well , a girl knows what that means . |
| 21 | Gail Sheehy defines the journey into midlife as a transition from accepting the authority and beliefs of others to defining and recognizing one 's own values and judgement . |
| 22 | So , for example , it would be better to stick your head out of the window and take in six large gulps of air instead of smoking a cigarette than to cut out smoking and put nothing in its place . |
| 23 | The reason it ends up swallowing and eating everything is that it 's seen as the only choice . |
| 24 | Either he could hang about drinking and flirting and achieve nothing , with the risk of embarrassment if Fedorov arrived , or he could try the direct approach . |
| 25 | After working in his father 's wire rope works at Halifax , Holroyd Smith struck off on his own , no doubt evoking a sigh of parental relief as he could not stop inventing and improving everything around him , from furnaces to ladies ' corsets . |
| 26 | If you see your small child trying to hurt a playmate , pull her away firmly without slapping and find something else to interest her . |
| 27 | ‘ She 'll bring back hanging and do something to get rid of all those blacks , ’ said the lady . |
| 28 | Either going or coming one should cross the Athos peninsula and look down into monasteries on the Holy Mountain that no female eye may otherwise see . |
| 29 | Children who were presented with a nonsense syllable alongside more and less in a variety of contexts made it contrast with more and less by adding or subtracting much smaller amounts ; by adding or subtracting everything ; by introducing some quite different manipulation ( stirring , flicking , rolling , tossing up and down , mixing both piles together ) , and so on . |
| 30 | So it will tend to pull and it almost definitely is either reaching or pulling or holding something or holding on for your life , |