Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found himself suddenly reaching out and touching someone or making some wild arm movement without thinking . |
| 2 | There seemed to be a permanent but suppressed hostility there , cooling everything that had once been so warm . |
| 3 | Tethered in the deep spaces on either side of the stove were the two dogs , Lady and Rosie , one a short-sighted bulldog of uncertain temperament , the other a bloody-minded Great Dane bent on demolishing or devouring everything that came within reach of her snapping teeth . |
| 4 | Perhaps next year or the year after we shall consider abandoning minimum sizes , landing everything and taking everything off catch quotas for each boat in order to abolish discards . |
| 5 | But er unfortunately those on the ground who have shown their skill at wrecking anything that does n't suit their purpose with the support of the Labour group , those on the ground will still be there and I do n't believe that er giving the director of education the executive powers is going to stop them continuing to take the sort of action they 've been taking . |
| 6 | But er there was a whole range of things like , Put in the hand and and erm they thought you were n't eating plenty or told to and supper . |
| 7 | He appeared and re-appeared snapping everything that moved or did n't — such as the bowler whose fingers got stuck in the three finger holes when attempting to launch . |
| 8 | I mean there 's no earthly use doing a beautiful piece of evaluation erm which no one wants to know about , and publishing something that has no effect . |
| 9 | I mean there 's no earthly use doing a beautiful piece of evaluation erm which no-one wants to know about at the end , or publishing something that has no affect . |
| 10 | And you had if it was no good you wanting something and waving a bit of plastic at it . |
| 11 | At times this was inappropriate ( for example , when he was on the telephone , mending something or talking to a visitor ) . |
| 12 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 13 | Safety with electricity means never operating anything that has a worn or damaged flex ; never trying to run an appliance from a light socket ; never trying to run several appliances via an adaptor plugged into one socket ; and ensuring that all plugs are wired properly . |
| 14 | With a happy smile on her extraordinarily beautiful face , and the memory of a man with blue eyes in her mind , she wandered back to where she had left her car , and Ellie being Ellie , who was totally incapable off passing anything that looked even remotely interesting , it was another hour before she finally got to it . |
| 15 | This is only being put forward , not because it 's a spare capacity , but because it 's a choice between selling something and getting income , or cutting a service somewhere else . |
| 16 | It deconstructs the language of communication , representation , or expression ( when the individual or collective subject may have the illusion that he is imitating something or expressing himself ) and reconstructs another language , voluminous , having neither bottom nor surface … |
| 17 | As a participant I can feel the difference between genuinely regretting something and signalling such a feeling . |
| 18 | But , over the past few months , I have been investigating something that makes such abstractions far more impressive . |
| 19 | ‘ Obviously the odds against Scotland overcoming everything and winning are high , but matches of this type do not always work out the way they have looked beforehand . ’ |
| 20 | The assumption is that there is only one possible explanation of our saying this : namely , that we believe that the man 's utterance is the result of encoding something that exists at a pre-linguistic level , namely a thought , and that in the case of the parrot there is nothing at this level . |
| 21 | It was rough but you know it , it w it was petty things that we was in trouble for , not , nothing sin I mean we would never think of mugging anybody or vandalizing things for the sake of vandalizing . |
| 22 | We used to drive it into fields or parking lots and open it up to reveal a complete Conservative campaign stage . |
| 23 | It is difficult to over-estimate what a transformation in the scope and purpose of physical planning this represented , far surpassing anything that had been achieved before . |
| 24 | She concentrated on the fire , producing something that owed more to determination than competence . |
| 25 | Of course it conflicts with the commercial urgency of producing something or gaining a new market . |
| 26 | As they clung together in that unutterable pleasure , he felt that they were defying everything that had persecuted them . |
| 27 | He was at a loss to describe the sky , its lilac whiteness , so ineffable above him that it was like a secret waiting to be deciphered , reflecting everything and seeping into the thin mist on the ground . |
| 28 | Where 's the reason in pursuing something that does n't exist ? |
| 29 | PERSONAL liability of £250,000 to £1 million is advisable to cover you for the legal liability of injuring someone or damaging their property , particularly as insurers report an increase in such claims . |
| 30 | Eladeldi scoured the tunnels , flaming everything that moved . |