Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wiltshire Police have settled out of court , making a payment and accepting civil responsibility . |
| 2 | Personally , by the time I had cycled up the hill in the dark , battling against high winds and rain , wearing my rain cape in a futile attempts to keep dry , I felt more like flopping into bed than sitting up all night making silly marks on a chart and plunging outside every sixty minutes to see if it was still raining . |
| 3 | Whether you want a printing or drawing package , if you intend to spend around £150 or more , your first port of call should be the big integrated graphics bundles , quite simply because of their outstanding value for money . |
| 4 | Take the enclosed to a printing or duplicating Agency and arrange for at least 9 copies to be made . |
| 5 | Businessman Ron Smith , who owns a printing and publishing firm , said of Mr Lamont 's bold talking : ‘ It 's all technical claptrap . |
| 6 | Law is not a business ; nor merely is it a profession , which is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as a vocation or calling , especially one that involves some branch of learning or science , but is one of three learned professions . |
| 7 | Once the information is captured in one format it is almost inevitable that it will be the wrong one for a typesetter or publishing company and a whole industry exists to convert both disk and software formats . |
| 8 | Nominal interest rates do count : high rates hurt , for instance , if cash flows are falling in a recession and leaving less available to service debts . |
| 9 | If a rating or precepting authority over-rated or over-precepted , the remedy was in the hands of the electorate … |
| 10 | ‘ I might be blowing a bit or struggling against a younger player and Stuart will feel we need a fresh pair of legs . |
| 11 | It was partly with the new saw table and also he wanted to try and get more er sellable saleable product out of the slate , cos previously we had been throwing away quite a bit or giving it to and I think it really started as a family argument between him and his brother . |
| 12 | And , perhaps going back a bit and looking at the history of the last ten years , it is important to realize that we have developed small centres as well as large ones . |
| 13 | She looks real comfy there and I think about sitting down for a bit and watching telly , but I ai n't got nothing to sit on so I just carry on standing up . |
| 14 | LAST TIME I meet Bobby Paine was in a hotel room in Milwaukee at 3am , when myself and Brian Setzer were playing indoor golf , drinking a bit and listening to Bobby tell his mad stories about Jerry Lee , Billy Idol and sundry LA psychos — barmy late-night company ! |
| 15 | Anyway , by the time Maureen went on her annual holiday , Biggles was feeding himself a bit and coming on well , so I took over . |
| 16 | Has a repeated ‘ kik ’ note , and a ‘ song ’ rendered as ‘ wait , wait ’ uttered slowly on a rising or falling scale . |
| 17 | The dock is provided with end gates which may be opened and closed for admission and egress of the vessel by a rising and falling sliding or pivotal motion in a vertical plane or swung on hinges as ordinary lock gates , suitable grooves or chambers being provided for the gates to work in a suitable means of making a water-tight closure being provided . |
| 18 | However , Baobhan Sith is far more dangerous , taking the form of a succubus and drinking the blood of young men who are abroad at night . |
| 19 | BILL Clinton criss-crossed America yesterday , looking every inch a winner and living up to his promise to ‘ burn up ’ the last 48 hours of his presidential campaign . |
| 20 | And Lionan had arrived now also , poised like a cat on a merlon and watching the fight intently , the rapier a silver sliver in his hand . |
| 21 | Finding a direction and sticking to it is not Pisces ' strongest suit , and the powerful effect of eclipses may well coincide with events that affect your life 's course . |
| 22 | When Irish Tom re-emerged from the best room some minutes later , he was strutting like a peacock and rubbing the front of his pants in a suggestive manner . |
| 23 | Next , try depicting the mannequin leaning on a stick or sitting down , remembering as your draw what it 's like to do these things yourself . |
| 24 | Next , try depicting the mannequin leaning on a stick or sitting down , remembering as your draw what it 's like to do these things yourself . |
| 25 | We played in Guernsey and this man came after us waving a stick and shouting that we were heretics and ‘ Thou shalt not be a false Messiah ’ . |
| 26 | Certainly my own identikit picture of the classic nasty old git a Tory faces is about 68 , wears a string vest and the trousers of an old suit , bears remnants of a tattoo on one shoulder and comes at you from the door of a council house with an unkempt garden in Mansfield , waving a stick and blaspheming mightily . |
| 27 | The basic design , a man leaning on a stick and playing with a dog , is found on archaic fragments from Athens and on several early classical pieces , one from Apollonia Pontica , a Milesian colony on the Black Sea which boasted a statue by Kalamis . |
| 28 | For most people a good book is a necessity when travelling , choose a paperback to keep the weight down . |
| 29 | Decisions are usually reached by consensus , rather than by a senior manager taking a decision and selling it or imposing it on his subordinates . |
| 30 | A potential failure of contraception had been recognised by 171 patients : 93 reported a split or leaking condom ; 13 reported a condom coming off during intercourse ; 32 admitted inconsistent use of condoms ; 32 reported forgetting to take contraceptive pills or taking antibiotics concurrently with the pill ; and one reported a late injection of medroxyprogesterone acetate . |