Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But doctors and nurses do from time to time brush aside the protests of aged , dying or mentally affected patients . |
| 2 | Similarly , although the smallness of the samples of 16th , 17th , and 18th Century publications in need of repair means that conclusions about them must be treated with some caution , it is worth noting that if all pre-1800 items are treated as a group and the proportion of them allocated to each of Categories 3–5 calculated , their pattern of distribution ( ‘ Poor' 78% ; ‘ Bad ’ 18% ; ‘ Fragile ’ 7% ) comes close to matching that already established for all defective items . |
| 3 | As he grew older , however , he gave up walking and seldom stirred from his club in St James ; there he could be seen reading newspapers , endlessly , indiscriminately , about great events and small in the order they appeared on the page . |
| 4 | When the groups came together it was because in the fiction the Argonauts were landing and desperately needed food and shelter — which the younger children enormously enjoyed providing . |
| 5 | We put down er obviously a local gendarmerie came along to see what was actually happening and actually bent over backwards to help us . |
| 6 | Eagles needed to witness the migrations of the smaller birds , or to fly afield to see the world beyond territories which at other times of the year they spent their time protecting and never left . |
| 7 | There was an almost equally dramatic sequel to the race when Carroll House , who is known to be a highly strung individual , lashed out several times as he was returning and almost caught well-wishers patting his quarters . |
| 8 | Convertibles , gearing and partly paid shares |
| 9 | The exam ranged over twelve subjects , the main part of which was purchasing but also included Economics , Statistics , Business Law and Accountancy . |
| 10 | A persisting central stimulus can largely suppress the orienting response , suggesting that cortically based mechanisms , when present , are prepotent in competition with the subcortical orienting mechanism . |
| 11 | Seeing that Yet returned to the room and went behind the curtain to prepare us the meal Frankenstein had promised , he lowered his voice and continued , ‘ I bestow my gift of the secret of life upon mankind . |
| 12 | ‘ It was like having a severe bout of food poisoning that never got better , ’ she recalled . |
| 13 | California was struck and sank quickly and by 0825 six o f the battleships were either sunk , sinking or badly damaged . |
| 14 | The strong sense of community between living and dead expressed in the frequent injunction in wills to pray for the soul of the deceased and to endow a priest for this specific purpose witnesses to a feeling for a purpose in existence beyond that of material well-being . |
| 15 | He was trembling and so drenched in sweat that his hair lay like streaks of black paint upon his forehead . |
| 16 | The contractions were not related to swallowing and usually consisted of several bursts of contractions , each burst composed of two to five simultaneous contractions of rather low amplitude ( 20 mm Hg ) . |
| 17 | But these were receding and soon ceased altogether , after a burst of three in rapid succession . |
| 18 | Catarrhs of mucous membranes ; discharges start thin and excoriating and later become more thick and bland . |
| 19 | Signor Matarazzo personally looks after the comfort of his guests , and , if you decide to sample his restaurant , you can be certain that whatever is on the menu of the day will be well worth eating and reasonably priced . |
| 20 | in in in in H two , nine , be freestanding and well removed from . |
| 21 | Moreover , even in states where entrance examinations were testing and strictly applied , many of the highest diplomatic posts continued to be given to men who were not professional diplomats . |
| 22 | They taught me to ollie and stuff and I really liked it and kept going and never stopped . |
| 23 | It was simply a case of going , going and then gone for the Information Technology manager as Wimpey Hobbs ’ Alice Richards — a trained first aider — got to work with the razor . |
| 24 | Hailwood returned to bike racing and instantly re-found success . |
| 25 | The idea is that by estimating a general correction mechanism and investigating its stability properties it may be possible to bring to bear an additional set of criteria in deciding whether agnostically estimated dynamic specifications are economically reasonable . |
| 26 | Among Northern Ireland 's problems are ‘ intensive farming practices , pollution , overfishing and poorly regulated rural development , ’ says a spokesperson for WWF , which has issued a Green Action Plan for the province . |
| 27 | Hi-Lo ( about £5 ) is a device that allows hanging baskets to be lowered for watering and then returned to their positions . |
| 28 | Only used for daysailing and never chartered . |
| 29 | Her father took some persuading but eventually accepted that Alexandra had nothing to do with organizing his trip . |
| 30 | Dhalia produced some effective , speedy long range punching but also incurred the wrath of referee Ron Hackett for frequent clinching . |