Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No more scrabbling for notepads or realising that you 've left your diary on your secretary 's desk . |
| 2 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 3 | Most pumps have a filter to clean the incoming air , and this needs cleaning or replacing when it gets dirty . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) The buyer may attempt to induce shareholders to accept the tender offer ( and not " wait and see " ) by expressly stating or implying that he does not intend to make a full bid . |
| 5 | At the simplest level this means deciding that someone wearing , say , a skirt in our society is female and acting on the basis of this decision , or deciding that someone shouting at the top of his or her voice is excited or angry and acting accordingly . |
| 6 | Most should allow for wheelchair access , but you should always check by reading any brochures or information sheets , or telephoning before you go . |
| 7 | But the position did become clearer in various respects ; and the problems and disputes which arose were seldom so acute or threatening as they had sometimes been in the past . |
| 8 | It will be observed that in those cases there was no statutory period after cessation of trade during which jurisdiction continued , and the court was therefore faced with a stark choice between saying that the jurisdiction ceased immediately active trade was suspended , or saying that it continued until the business had actually been wound up by payment of the debts . |
| 9 | And he did n't take any notice of what she was asking or saying and he did n't take any notice of her at all . |
| 10 | This will mean the vendors bear the financial risk of not being able to locate fellow vendors or finding that they have inadequate funds . |
| 11 | Roland had never been much interested in Randolph Henry Ash 's vanished body ; he did not spend time visiting his house in Russell Street , or sitting where he had sat , on stone garden seats ; that was Cropper 's style . |
| 12 | For any sort of forward prospecting , or monitoring that you do , the backs of the calendar cards are absolutely invaluable . |
| 13 | Ms Jackson is not advocating allowing your child to play in a busy road , or watching as it tips a bottle of bleach down its throat . |
| 14 | From haute cuisine right through to superb vegetarian menus , dining at the Sauerhof can be as waist-expanding or waistreducing as you require . |
| 15 | A gold ring , now in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford , shows a priestess dancing and another woman apparently worshipping or dreaming as she reclines in a trance against some boulders . |
| 16 | As a result of quality assurance , we have procedures in place on subjects such as management of technical information or ensuring that we understand clients ’ brief first time . |
| 17 | In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’ |
| 18 | After a few years caddying on and off for de Vicenzo , Dave went into full-time caddying in the mid-1970s , although he was still doing work other than caddying when he took the bag of Vicente Fernandez . |
| 19 | Hold up this measured piece of work to the machine , neither stretching nor easing and you find you appear to need about 120 stitches . |
| 20 | The five leading members of the party at the centre of the controversy , Pearnel Charles , Errol Anderson , Karl Samuda , Edmund Bartlett and Douglas Vaz , although stating that they did not want to unseat Seaga , refused to give a public statement of unconditional loyalty to him . |
| 21 | The bearish money spread ( Fig. 7.9(b) ) reflects the profit and loss potential of an investor who gives a higher probability to the security price falling than rising but who takes out insurance in case of being wrong . |
| 22 | wilko knows about tore but leeds has shown no interest in him other than saying that they know about this player . |
| 23 | seems far more interesting than knowing that they 've rehearsed for hours on end . |
| 24 | Much more tricky than knowing if you 've found a badger sett , is knowing whether or not it is still active . |
| 25 | She says that it 's more comfortable and she can sit up in it , rather than slumping as she did in her old one . |
| 26 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 27 | Jesus clearly accepted others , rather than rejecting as we do . |
| 28 | She wondered if eating when you did n't feel hungry was brave . |
| 29 | A landlord is bound to include a covenant against assignment and subletting if he wishes to maintain control over the business tenancy . |
| 30 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |