Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have worked with a cook , a caretaker , a community policeman , a coach driver and an athletics coach — all of whom greatly enjoyed taking part in our drama and working with the children . |
| 2 | He returned to his much loved reciting career . |
| 3 | My swimming partner and I greatly enjoyed taking part in the event . |
| 4 | And I always like doing business with a man who knows he 's over a barrel . |
| 5 | I always use shaving foam and the latest razors ( twin-blade swivel-heads are state-of-the-art at the moment ) , removing the downy brown growth of the previous day and night with dexterity and precision . |
| 6 | Wavebreaker was registered in the Channel Islands , and thus sailed under a defaced British red ensign with the Bahamian flag flying as a courtesy ensign from the main spreaders , but I always greeted arriving charter guests with their own country 's flag — though such a gesture was considered bad flag etiquette by nautical purists , it was good for our final tip — and so Thessy now hoisted the Stars and Stripes to the mainmast 's spreaders and a smaller Stars and Bars just beneath . |
| 7 | When we heard of the decision to construct a new reservoir on the Durham/Northumberland border , Ann and I carefully noted opening day in our diary ; and on the appointed morning we rose at dawn and sallied forth , bustling by ash-covered Consett Iron Works , the light of battle glinting in our trout-starved eyes . |
| 8 | I really enjoy watching boxing and try to get to see a few sports programmes every week . |
| 9 | I really enjoy writing dialogue ; I tend to talk to myself a lot anyway so I suppose I 'm used to it . |
| 10 | " I particularly like designing business equipment , " he says . |
| 11 | I vaguely remembered reminding mum last night that I was looking for the rest of Uncle Rory 's papers . |
| 12 | Someone else likes playing lead and bass guitars , so you build a guitar with two necks and they can do both . ’ |
| 13 | In July 1943 the Town and Country Planning ( Interim Development ) Bill received the Royal Assent , legislation which effectively extended planning control to the whole of the country not so far covered by a planning scheme . |
| 14 | Although changes in attitude are notoriously slow there are now some firms and local governments which positively avoid specifying age in their job advertisements . |
| 15 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 16 | wrong anyway in that er I 'll say it 's the er early on it in the report Good defines what he determines a prus trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively orb enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund er is against that duty in the first place , but it to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty which I will say stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 17 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 18 | In their own study which actually involved recording EEG/EOG measures of sleeping shiftworkers in their own homes using a portable tape recorder , they also found that sleep during the day was generally shorter than night-time sleep , and more frequently interrupted by awakenings . |
| 19 | ‘ Should n't be too much of a hardship , ’ said Luke , then eyeing Perdita s slender arms , but she better start pumping iron if she s going to play high goal . ’ |
| 20 | The Baby parade has continued ever since , encompassing such ditties as ‘ I Found A Million Dollar Baby In A Five And Ten Cent Store ’ , ‘ You Better Keep Babying Baby ( Or Your Baby 's Gon na Bye-Bye You ) ’ , and ‘ Baby Let Your Drawers Hang Down ’ , the latter being performed at Babe Connors ' Club in St Louis , where the girls did bumps and grinds on a mirror floor . |
| 21 | IF YOU ALREADY RECEIVE HOUSING BENEFIT THERE IS NO NEED FOR YOU TO RE-APPLY ! |
| 22 | But er , I met a chap this one day , he says well I , I saw you this morning taking milk out , he says I saw you this afternoon taking coal out , he said I see you tonight going playing tennis . |
| 23 | IF there is anyone out there who still thinks drinking wine is snobby , you 're way out of touch . |
| 24 | You ever tried keeping milk for five kids without a fridge in a heatwave ? ’ |
| 25 | The young beaks are not strong enough to break the yarn ( have you ever tried breaking acrylic ? ) and of course , they can not unpick the yarn . |
| 26 | Mum , tell you what mum , do you like , have you ever tried eating pork chops ? |
| 27 | If you 're receiving supplementary pension , the social security office should inform the council that you also need housing benefit , and they should work it out and notify you . |
| 28 | It was Francois Bergot and Jan Martens who both suggested taking advantage of the gathering together of all the drawings for the book to present as many of them as possible to the public in a splendid exhibition . |
| 29 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said this afternoon , any passenger who encourages and any driver who recklessly drives causing injury or damage is guilty of reckless driving , which was renamed dangerous driving in the Road Traffic Act 1991 and is liable to two years imprisonment . |
| 30 | Nick things that men who really love making love with women would rather grind flesh against flesh than fiddle about with straps and elastic . |