Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You get done for , pulled up for speeding or parking or something and you can pay your own fine . |
| 2 | Well , I do n't know who was the more insane , he for singing or Benjamin and myself for joining in . |
| 3 | She showed no inclination to argue further , but lay back in her chair , smiling at Robert , and I saw that it was not , as I had believed , understanding and acceptance that her smile revealed , not that their marriage was so secure it could sustain itself in the face of any disagreement , but that Lili could afford to be pleasant because she had no scruples . |
| 4 | She is interested in most sports , especially hurling and soccer and she has won several trophies for darts . |
| 5 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 6 | He knew , as well , that Tree Spirits cling tenaciously to their homes until those homes become untenable because of the Tree dying and drying and he thought that Miach 's spell must have been stronger than any of them had thought for it to draw the Spirits so filly and so firmly into the open . |
| 7 | The problem is that of Explaining and Understanding and it applies no less to transnational companies , world finance , and revolutionary groups . |
| 8 | On the way home , Frank was driving and Harry and I were in the back seat , and Harry put his arm round me . |
| 9 | Conversely , the Profitboss accepts that they have greater skills in packing , driving and cleaning than him . |
| 10 | I was especially fond of my maternal grandparents ' dog , Luath , an exquisitely patient collie with whom I would sit for hours , pretending or half-pretending that we could read one another 's thoughts . |
| 11 | You never see a white guy rappin' and dancin' like I do . ’ |
| 12 | In upholstery you really do get what you pay for and you usually have to take the quality on trust since you can not see all the underpinnings of frames , filling and springs unless you are shown a sample cross section and have it all explained to you in the shop . |
| 13 | Repeat the process with the remaining butter , filling and pastry until it is all used up . |
| 14 | The bowmen slipped backwards from tree to tree , fitting and shooting as they could , the lancers aimed for the men rather than the horses , and brought down three in the first onslaught . |
| 15 | Amongst the sports in which blacks showed no interest were swimming and golf and there was little obvious interest in racket sports while middle distances of the track were disregarded . |
| 16 | But after spending more than £2,500 on a facelift and suffering a few weeks of looking and feeling like she had gone 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis , Fiona found that few people noticed any difference . |
| 17 | If you were to come down the Cowley Road — I invite you to come down and and come and see the situation , because , you know , if I said okay anyone can smoke or drink in the church or churchyard in Saint Mary and John , the building would be full , not full literally , but we 'd have people all day in there smoking and drinking and there would be nowhere quiet for people to pray . |
| 18 | " And after a time , " went on Dandelion , " after a time the grass began to grow thin and the rabbits wandered everywhere , multiplying and eating as they went . |
| 19 | With a gasp she felt his palm close firmly round one of her breasts , circling and squeezing until she felt her nipples harden and an explosion of fire sweep through her entire body , sending her head back , lips opening , lids heavy and breath deepening uncontrollably as her arms came up around his neck . |
| 20 | Others were studying land surveying , levelling and trigonometry and one had reached conic sections . ’ |
| 21 | Compulsory subjects for primary children are reading , maths , writing , art and technology , drawing and nature and there are two educational sessions a day lasting between 1–2 hours each . |
| 22 | fancy the paella he said no problem I make paella so , I mean all of half an hour went by , but we went in and we had paella and then all these people started dancing , they moved the chairs back and they started clapping and singing and dancing and I said is this |
| 23 | I 've spent more than 15 years singing and touring and I still enjoy it but it 's important to keep your body in good condition when you 're on the road . |
| 24 | In due course we might look closer at that episode with the Gilberd : she admits after much blushing and prevarication that he accused her in the High Street delicatessen of baby-snatching — did it openly , in a loud voice . |
| 25 | They spread between people by coughing , sneezing and kissing but they can not live for more than a few seconds outside the body . |
| 26 | We had this range for cooking and heating until my mother was quite elderly , when it was replaced by a coke boiler and an electric cooker . |
| 27 | And I like erm erm knitting and crocheting and I like cycling and I like running and erm I like walking and erm I was very fortunate to be able to go to Nepal the other week . |
| 28 | Forget not good enough , she was still eating and drinking and her flat was usually warm . |
| 29 | She worked very hard to get everything exactly right and would spend hours in her room sewing , unpicking and re-sewing until she felt that the clothes were perfect . |
| 30 | So if they were where the machine was planing or moulding or whatever , the material 'd be sucked away like ours is into bins and then that used to go with the material we used to get . |