Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word-processor provides the teacher with a powerful resource with which to explore the body of experience or learning that waits to be arranged through the successful use of language . |
| 2 | As the campaign proceeded , I kept quiet as I began to have a vision of some grisly post-polling day ceremony in which I would be on a platform like a performance artist from the sixties , vomiting and gagging while attempting to ingest yet another page : ‘ You 're doing okay . |
| 3 | Then , as they came out onto an open stretch of bitten turf at the foot of the hill where the rabbits were running , as though a signal had been given a universal clamour broke out , a clatter , a din of singing , from the unseen roof-tops of the village behind them , from the beeches on the Down , from the ash trees that stood like singing poles in the hedgerows along the hollow track , from every tree it seemed of the whole vast forest birds were singing and singing and demanding to be heard . |
| 4 | Inshore , Wilkie , lying lazily along the water , propped by flickering hands , watched the to and fro of their dancing and circling and smiled to himself . |
| 5 | As far as I was concerned it was a nightmare , and merged in my memory with actually being evacuated ; the kids going down to Ladywell station in a crocodile on one side of the road , clutching oranges and bars of chocolate , and the mothers on the other , weeping and wailing and shouting to us across the street , lots of dwarfs and lots of Snow Whites . |
| 6 | We paraded down the aisle , tapping loudly with our canes and shouting and whistling to the crowd . |
| 7 | ‘ I am Swiss , ’ said Elsa , backing away nervously and turning and fleeing to Gooseneck . |
| 8 | Because the techniques involved imply a separate implementation of the portability software on each different platform — they also mean that what users purchase and what they see on their screen are two different things — there are obvious questions of support and testing that need to addressed . |
| 9 | Just occasionally Nails managed it , and saw that finding the rhythm and rising and falling to it was the nub of the whole uncomfortable business , but it did not happen very often . |
| 10 | They were failing to recognize or were positively discounting the rights of those dissenting from their particular views of public order , and subjecting that dissent to the full coercion of the state . |
| 11 | Parents can record the intensity of the problem , for example whining and moaning as opposed to screaming , on the same chart by colouring the tick or making it bigger . |
| 12 | Welcome back : The hit musical Barnum , starring Paul Nicholas , is now up and running and playing to packed houses at the Apollo theatre in Oxford . |
| 13 | It aims to develop knowledge and skills in personal budgeting , consumer skills , health and fitness and identifying and responding to social needs in the local community . |
| 14 | He found it ‘ intolerable ’ to think of the toys falling into the hands of other children — ‘ The idea of a crowd of embryo right wee fellas ’ ' getting hold of them and Bolshevising and applying to their own base purposes that well-ordered world in which we spent so many happy hours ’ . |
| 15 | It is the complexity of the decoding and responding that seems to be under-represented in this model , as can be seen in the communication model if the following is substituted : |
| 16 | I 'm telling ya , I 've just had it up to there honest I told Dave this morning , he says well he says I ca n't , he , you 're not losing anything , going and sitting and listening to the man |
| 17 | Does not the proactivity need to be politicians of all parties coming together and discussing and listening to each other rather than simply making pronouncements ? |
| 18 | Whereas fast compound curves suggest smoke , silks and delicate , tenuous traceries drawn by a breeze , slow compound curves are like the muscles of a weight lifter — powerful , even ponderous and writhing when taken to extremes . |
| 19 | They also feared that the workers , inclined to swearing , smelling , and spitting and given to assorted vandalism , would deter better-class passengers . |
| 20 | Most of the meetings are for the purposes of electing Elders and Deacons ; selecting dates for Communion and purging and adding to the roll in preparation ; electing a representative in the Presbytery and Synod ; and acting as a court of discipline . |
| 21 | The Landlord demises to the Tenant the Premises Together with the rights specified in the second Schedule but Excepting and reserving to the Landlord the rights specified in the third Schedule To hold the Premises to the Tenant for the Contractual Term Subject to all rights easements privileges restrictions covenants and stipulations of whatever nature affecting the Premises [ including the matters contained or referred to in the seventh Schedule ] Yielding and paying to the Landlord : |
| 22 | But womanizing and drinking to the extent he did was not the behaviour of a mild-mannered man . |