Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A landlord is bound to include a covenant against assignment and subletting if he wishes to maintain control over the business tenancy . |
| 2 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 3 | She could hear them yawning and coughing as they moved around . |
| 4 | Pneumonia during the prepatent phase may cause signs of dyspnoea and depression , whereas the presence of adult worms and excess mucus in the trachea lead to signs of asphyxia or suffocation with the bird gasping for air ; often there is a great deal of head shaking and coughing as it tries to rid itself of the obstruction . |
| 5 | Some cats are completely docile and allow as much petting and stroking as their human companions wish to lavish upon them . |
| 6 | an Amstrad , f for which I can give you my letterhead and formatting and you can then write letters for me . |
| 7 | The dummy took three weeks ' work by a team of volunteers , mostly part-time and helping when they could . |
| 8 | The government issued statements , before and after the April arrests , criticizing the activities of DP members in northern Uganda and suggesting that they were helping to perpetuate the insurgency , although no evidence of this was presented . |
| 9 | The verdicts are implicitly defining what is appropriate behaviour for women and suggesting that they do not have much of a safeguard if they stray into areas regarded as ‘ male territory ’ whether it be a barracks room or a street late at night . |
| 10 | In limiting the concept of social representations to these sons of phenomena , Moscovici is denying that social representations can be found in all societies , and suggesting that they only emerge under certain social conditions . |
| 11 | Stewart Mason , Chairman of the NCDAD , was at the same time proposing to write to polytechnics and colleges with DipAD courses , in advance of a meeting of the London Colleges Alliance the following month , to raise the possibility of the two bodies ‘ getting closer together ’ , and suggesting that they would ‘ probably amalgamate ’ . |
| 12 | His general note was one of chiding MacDonald for the weakness of his control over his own extremists and suggesting that what the country needed was men of practical experience , breadth of view and lack of dogmatic commitment . |
| 13 | His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself . |
| 14 | Alf is periodically nodding at his son-in-law and suggesting that he would be better off if he read the book Alf has in his hands . |
| 15 | We are already falling into the trap of describing an ideal world and suggesting that it exists . |
| 16 | King Edward bent to pick it up amid suggestive laughter , declaring ‘ shame on him who thinks evil of it ’ , and prophesying that he would make it the most sought-after badge of honour in Britain . |
| 17 | He enjoys colouring and drawing when he 's had a fit . |
| 18 | And depending whether it 's a rectangular plot or whether it is n't or not or if it 's slightly at an angle then some of the corner houses have a fairly long gardens . |
| 19 | He thought of himself , stunning them all by running and swimming and riding and shooting better than the lot of them , and them all eating their words and cheering and him being cool , man . |
| 20 | As they rode along the winding estate road , the handful of workers not invited to the service lined the route , clapping and cheering as they arrived . |
| 21 | He was pin high to the left of the flag and the crowd was stamping and cheering as we walked down to the green . |
| 22 | Little Billy recognised Don Mini riding on a fine jay and he was waving and cheering as he flew alongside them . |
| 23 | That statement was swiftly followed by a countersuit against Phar-Mor 's management , claiming unspecified damages and maintaining that it was unable to audit the company accurately because its financial statements were altered . |
| 24 | The ceremony has died out in many areas over the past hundred years , so it was a good idea to revive it.There 's cider and singing and it 's good fun . |
| 25 | People travelled in groups , dancing and singing as they went . |
| 26 | Validation of the suffering individual , treating him or her with kindness , professional respect and dignity , being open and honest , separating the awareness of the disease from the understanding of the suffering human being , following the distorted reasoning and disturbed actions and accepting that they appeared to the sufferer to be most appropriate at the time they were committed . |
| 27 | He received a letter the next day apologizing and accepting that he had not been in possession of a stolen car . |
| 28 | If you begin by believing that everyone 's looks are individual and accepting that there are some colours or product formulations that people just do n't like , then you have to start from a completely different selling point than the traditional cosmetic houses . |
| 29 | He was at times ordered to aid and supervise the royal huntsmen by leading them to those parts of the forest where the game was most plentiful , o supplying them with trained hounds , and seeing that they did not drive the deer out of the forest or continue their hunting longer than their instructions warranted . |
| 30 | — helping to get clients to bed , and seeing that they were safe for the night . |