Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that or hacking it with the hammers . |
| 2 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 3 | Oh yeah I mean if you wanted to also link that with multicultural situation or or cross cultural or comparing it with other ones I mean that 's no problem . |
| 4 | A project in which the children 's desire to acquire information will engender high motivation would seem a far more appropriate way of achieving this than putting them through special library lessons , divorced from any meaningful context . |
| 5 | Giving credit for extended periods is always more risky than giving it for shorter periods . |
| 6 | This is easier than doing it with numbers , any day . |
| 7 | This is much easier than keeping them in piles in a cupboard or closet . |
| 8 | It seemed easier than confronting her in their bedroom . |
| 9 | We are an organisation specialising in Stearmans and have wide experience of restoring and operating them at our Norfolk base . |
| 10 | Try folding a VDU in half and stuffing it in your pocket . |
| 11 | tearing tin cans in half and lobbing them into the |
| 12 | I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves . |
| 13 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |
| 14 | The Rangers will help the area and visitors by advising , guiding and informing them about the Hills and the many interests to be seen and enjoyed . |
| 15 | This involved focusing on medium-sized towns one alter another and blitzing them with publicity . |
| 16 | The tasks themselves — typing , photocopying , collating , stapling — are not intrinsically interesting but doing them with others , who are eager for the same goal , is . |
| 17 | Intrigue and treachery , especially from former officials , were advertised in public as besetting him from all sides . |
| 18 | Better that than learning it from my visitors or this evening 's paper , I suppose they thought . |
| 19 | You , you know how I feel , I mean er Rob does a lot of good work but he keeps it all to himself and we 've got ta be bigger than keeping it to ourselves , it 's everybody 's responsibility vocational education from right down from year seven right the way across the board , they 've got ta |
| 20 | Much credit is due to the quick thinking of his jockey John Buckingham riding in his first Grand National , in steering him over to the wide outside and popping him through a gap . |
| 21 | Six and moving it to the afternoon yes , it 's er a nice question . |
| 22 | Cuddling on the couch with your husband in front of other people is frowned upon just as much as kissing him in the street . |
| 23 | When he spoke , it seemed to her that he was listening to his own thoughts as much as conveying them to her . |
| 24 | Instead he waited until stragglers ventured outside the walls and then picked them off one by one , capturing the Dwarfs alive if possible and tormenting them for days within earshot of the citadel walls . |
| 25 | I 'm sorry if landing you with the girl 's clothes is an embarrassment . |
| 26 | Mr Budgen said : ‘ The Government 's actions have been disgraceful , describing Maastricht as an issue of confidence in private and denying it in public . |
| 27 | And er getting back to that and cleaning it with a real good clean every single week . |
| 28 | This is obviously far more satisfactory than leaving it to a widely dispersed class of persons each of whom may lack the skill , interest and financial resources required if he is to take action on his own . |
| 29 | It is recommended that this error log is never allowed to grow so large that typing it to the screen takes a significant amount of time . |
| 30 | Surely you are saving these and taking them to FOE , Whitehouse Road . |