Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he woke , sweating and exhausted , with his heart thudding as though he had been running , it was properly morning . |
| 2 | Recently , we have seen in the UK , in the Lindop Inquiry , not only a group of academics subscribing to the notion of a ‘ coherent academic community ’ , but also the government in its response accepting that the best safeguard of ‘ standards ’ lies in the maintenance of a ‘ coherent , self-critical academic community ’ . |
| 3 | The wild pitch sound was born , Mr Pierre proving that there was more mileage to be had in ‘ Essential Acapella Vol 1 ’ than most people imagined . |
| 4 | I must be quiet ; they must not hear my heart thumping or my involuntary gasp . |
| 5 | She could feel her heart thumping and was sure that people would see its movement beneath her dress . |
| 6 | Sara felt her heart thumping and the colour rising in her cheeks . |
| 7 | I could hear my own heart thumping and beating . |
| 8 | THE MACC LADS : ‘ Twenty Golden Crates ’ ( Streetlink ) pub band of unlovable rogues celebrate their tenth anniversary , would you believe , with this beer swillin' , sheep shaggin' and chips ‘ n ’ gravy guzzling collection — out on Monday |
| 9 | In addition , there may be statements from engineers or surveyors suggesting that the building is physically unsound . |
| 10 | The 400-member Volkskammer approved this resolution with only six deputies opposing and 18 abstentions , while the Bundestag voted 487 to 15 ( opponents including the CDU deputy who was president of the " association of expellees " ) . |
| 11 | undermine your opponent 's credibility by : questioning his experience suggesting that he is losing control negotiating to the point of his mental exhaustion |
| 12 | And then his iron control seemed to give way for a moment , his fingers clenching as he pulled her roughly against him . |
| 13 | A person who throws a missile at a football match can clearly be guilty of violent disorder ( provided always that there are three or more present using or threatening violence ) , since his conduct can be regarded as violence by virtue of the extended definition of ‘ violence ’ in the Act . |
| 14 | On 3 October , a certain Brigadier McLean wrote to the Director of Military Operations suggesting that the ‘ S.A.S. , L.R.D.G. and 1 L.R.S. be combined and that armour , artillery and infantry the size of a regiment should be added for seaborne operations . |
| 15 | Some environmental groups maintaining that the birds should be left to their own devices rather than being raised in captivity . |
| 16 | Re-investigation might show liability attaching and avoid unnecessary Court actions being raised . |
| 17 | Are these pictures simply transcriptions of power , in which the hard approach is mixed with the soft , and the Church is allied with the State ( and in this case hinting as well , not just at the foreigner 's domination of the native inhabitants but also at class conflict within colonial society , since the angel is a mélange of Spanish and Inca aristocracies ) ? |
| 18 | Most of the fragments detected by the ( T 2 AG 3 ) 4 oligonucleotide are very small in the Mbo I and Alu I digested DNAs suggesting that the telomeric repeats can be as short as 300 bp or even shorter . |
| 19 | He says that he 's looking for birds preening or doing something which makes a good composition . |
| 20 | Without the usual ICL handholding and consulting , they will come out at around 10% cheaper than ICL 's list price . |
| 21 | The Series 3000 incorporates automatic calibration of wavelength , transmission and absorbance zeros together with automatic programmes for absorbance ratioing and peak seeking . |
| 22 | Interestingly the clinical diagnosis of colonic carcinoma made at the first attendance was correct in four of five cases and incorrect in nine of 88 cases suggesting that clinical features are of help in this diagnosis . |
| 23 | Boolean logic introduces pupils to the combination of keywords using AND , OR and NOT — e.g. PARLIAMENT AND FINANCE OR LAWS — would retrieve references to books , articles etc. which were indexed under PARLIAMENT and FINANCE or PARLIAMENT and LAWS . |
| 24 | Pupils then have to choose to combine keywords using AND , OR or NOT and enter a second keyword . |
| 25 | Is a promise to give a wedding present binding when the marriage takes place ? |
| 26 | If male doctors have difficulty accepting or understanding this it is probably because they have not been in such powerless positions since childhood . |
| 27 | There 'll be new acts coming in yet and there 'll be acts goin' before we hit 42nd Street . |
| 28 | Pass through the village , and off to the right you will find a farmyard with chickens pecking , ducks waddling and a couple of horses grazing peacefully . |
| 29 | The source of arousal is critical for a number of reasons , in addition to the considerable literature suggesting that arousal is not a unitary physiological dimension , there is the problem that in memory tasks an external source arousal may simply distract subjects while memory for an arousing item itself may be subject to von Restorff effects . |
| 30 | One theory is based upon aposematic , or warning coloration suggesting that the bright coloration of the clownfish acts as a warning to predators against approaching too closely to the venomous tentacles . |