Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) . |
| 2 | and it will take some of those runners … a few days … a few weeks to recover but believe it or not they 're already talking about and planning next year 's race |
| 3 | On the jumping front , trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies is still deciding on whether to send Captain Dibble , courageous winner of Saturday 's Scottish National at Ayr , to Fairyhouse next Monday for the Irish Grand National . |
| 4 | Christina found she was still staring as if mesmerized at Stein 's confident smile . |
| 5 | The first seven miles of this journey are extremely arduous : there is no path and progress is a struggle through tussocky grass , tough heather and naked peat hags , keeping to the clifftops where possible but often unavoidably descending into and scrambling out of the coves and gullies that break the ramparts , as well as fording the streams entering the sea from the moorlands of the interior . |
| 6 | Fleury faltered backwards as the sepoy advanced , still making as if to offer him the sabre . |
| 7 | Its highly flexible neck enables it to keep watch over a wide area while it is both searching for and chasing prey . |
| 8 | When two businesses are both buying from and selling to one another the outstanding accounts between them can be offset and the net balance paid by whoever owes it to the other . |
| 9 | ‘ Many teachers are now suffering from or showing signs of stress-related illnesses so that they wish to take early retirement , some on the grounds of ill-health , or are eager to leave the profession altogether , ’ the Belfast secondary teacher added . |
| 10 | What are we really talking about when saying we would have to reduce the numbers of staff ? |
| 11 | Through marriage he created the possibility of consciously knowing about and coming to terms with his own painful experience of loss . |
| 12 | Of course , this did n't stop him from shamelessly flirting with and teasing the scores of solicitous museum officials that came to see him ! ’ |
| 13 | Liza 's car always appeared to be the one which had preferential treatment and although John Carrow , neither approving of nor trusting any lady to tinker about with a machine , begged them all to leave such things as cleaning carburettors to him , it was always Liza 's that got attended to first . |
| 14 | Each of the ‘ good ’ events can be considered as either adding to or modifying a unit of living physical matter contributing to the ultimate man , and by so doing , at the same time created a unit of ‘ goodness ’ contributing to the ever-growing power of the developing God . |
| 15 | As their retirement counselling manager explained , Legal and General has over one million people either paying towards or drawing out pensions , so it makes sense for them to offer pre-retirement courses which are paid for either by the individuals themselves or their employers . |
| 16 | Over 80 per cent of cases in one series were either suffering from or had suffered from other sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 17 | Through her interactions with children in response to their work , the teacher also models processes of actively listening to and responding to ideas , questioning , exploring and sharing which the children will then be able to use for themselves . |