Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | wilko knows about tore but leeds has shown no interest in him other than saying that they know about this player . |
| 5 | seems far more interesting than knowing that they 've rehearsed for hours on end . |
| 6 | Much more tricky than knowing if you 've found a badger sett , is knowing whether or not it is still active . |
| 7 | She says that it 's more comfortable and she can sit up in it , rather than slumping as she did in her old one . |
| 8 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 9 | Jesus clearly accepted others , rather than rejecting as we do . |
| 10 | She wondered if eating when you did n't feel hungry was brave . |
| 11 | She looked at me for a moment , measuringly , as if wondering whether I meant it . |
| 12 | He seemed to be considering it , as if wondering if something had been overlooked , but when he turned round , the pain in his eyes was almost too much for Melissa to bear . |
| 13 | George came last , carrying an attaché case of papers and looking over his shoulder at the train as if wondering if he 'd forgotten anything . |
| 14 | as if sensing that she had given up fighting him for the present , fitzAlan released her immediately , frowning down at her distraught face . |
| 15 | She watched as if dreaming as he untied his kilt , all he was wearing , and let it fall to the warm ground beneath them . |
| 16 | I know the strain has been great because operating as you do entails the most constant vigilance and cunning which no other troops are called upon to display . ’ |
| 17 | It is so frustrating to consider a sample to be exactly what you are looking for and then need to set up the card again to discover just how you arrived at it , while labelling as you go is only the work of a moment . |
| 18 | With the minimum of props and the only gesture being a raised paw , he asked for the money for a cup of coffee , guv , sported a patch over one eye concealing a wound sustained in the service of his country , at the same time dragging a wooden leg fitted during the retreat from Moscow while maintaining that he had a bitch and five pups to support and did not know where his next meal was coming from . |
| 19 | Mr Redwood gave his warning while announcing that he had instructed the Land Authority for Wales to make more land available for housing . |
| 20 | We shall focus on the search for drugs which lower blood pressure , while noting that they do not cure , that their role is essentially palliative , and that their use is not always appropriate . |
| 21 | While confirming that there had been widespread Iraqi brutality , Middle East Watch emphasized that no proof had as yet emerged to support allegations that thousands of Kuwaitis had been executed by the Iraqis . |
| 22 | While emphasising that he had not reached any firm conclusions , Lord Donaldson 's voice will be a powerful one in behind-the-scenes manoeuvres as rules governing the exercise of the new advocacy rights are hammered out away from the parliamentary battlefield . |
| 23 | The Zaïrean authorities denied the newspaper reports , while acknowledging that there had been student unrest , and refused requests for an international inquiry into the alleged incident . |
| 24 | Though I did n't know that then , so I rang your hotel — and , while insisting that they contact me , without letting you know , the moment you walked in … ’ |
| 25 | The Egyptians , while insisting that they do not speak for the Palestinians , appear ready to fudge the principle of PLO selection of the Palestinian delegation to ensure Israeli participation . |
| 26 | The Egyptians , while insisting that they do not speak for the Palestinians , appear ready to fudge the principle of PLO selection of the Palestinian delegation to ensure Israeli participation . |
| 27 | At a meeting of the Moscow nobility on 30 March 1856 , while insisting that he had no immediate plans for Emancipation , Alexander delivered the famous warning : ‘ You yourselves know that the existing order of ruling over living souls can not remain unchanged . |
| 28 | However , he and Earl Tostig Godwinsson [ q.v. ] were robbed by brigands on their way home , and forced to return to Rome , where Nicholas reinstated Ealdred and gave him the pallium , while insisting that he give up Worcester . |
| 29 | JOHN SMITH is preparing to launch the biggest tax assault ever on middle income families while claiming that he does not know what the effect of his tax hike will be on incentives , confidence or on the economy . |
| 30 | Lacking political support , Collor turned to the courts to question the legality of the impeachment process while claiming that he needed more time to prepare his defence against the corruption charges . |