Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] your " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the price has been agreed your agent will confirm it in writing and notify your solicitor — but wait until the buyer 's survey has been completed and the house given the OK before celebrating or allowing your agent to put up his ‘ Sold Subject to Contract ’ sign . |
| 2 | and all this scrapping and burning your tongue or catching your l lip of something |
| 3 | Most of the game is mental — being able to keep your head clear and retain a certain outlook on life should mean that bad times are neither so frequent nor so lengthy as they would be if you start examining your technique or doubting your ability . |
| 4 | You are obviously feeling down or doubting your abilities . |
| 5 | You may not be putting together the salad on your plate or cooking your main course in the kitchen , but you do have a certain control over what goes onto your plate . |
| 6 | This means that you can carry on kissing her all over , or using your fingers inside her vagina or anus ( but do cover cuts , sores , grazes or skin conditions such as eczema on your fingers and hands with plasters or latex gloves ) . |
| 7 | Neither should quotations be used to express an opinion and thereby avoid expressing your own opinion or using your own words . |
| 8 | Burble , burble , burble — I do miss you , Jeanette , often at the oddest times — like when ‘ preparing ’ the washing up or using your bubble bath . |
| 9 | any person named in your policy schedule and certificate of motor insurance provided they are driving your motor cycle or using your motor cycle with your permission |
| 10 | The Housing Executive can make a grant towards improving or repairing your home . |
| 11 | This Section is amended as follows : General Accident will pay the cost of replacing or repairing your household contents and valuables and portable possessions or , at our option , we will replace them if they are lost or damaged in any of the following circumstances , whilst |
| 12 | Your local council can make a grant towards improving or repairing your home , and that can include a grant for making your home warmer . |
| 13 | When you 've reached the point where you want publication , where seeing your work in print is necessary to you in order to feel you 've made a permanent communication — then you have to begin the work of looking at the market , seeing what is published and by whom . |
| 14 | Control nervous gestures such as foot-tapping or twisting your fingers together . |
| 15 | The powers that be at the Tate tend to be more interested in ‘ the modern ’ than in the British tradition , so many fine or interesting British paintings are rarely if ever displayed , and to get through to those that are one has to wade one 's way through off-putting modernist rubbish , with the risk of tripping over artistic piles of bricks or tearing your clothes on sharp bits of dustbin sculpture . |
| 16 | What are the others keeping your arm or keeping your arms crossed , or in a fig leaf position . |
| 17 | Can you do a sit-up without using your hands or anchoring your toes ? |
| 18 | ‘ You do n't appear to have any qualms about spending the weekend with him , or flaunting your relationship in front of her day by day . |
| 19 | They allow Pcs with Novell 's popular NOS to plug into a 10Base2 or 10BaseT network environment without the extra expense of adding software or reconfiguring your system . |
| 20 | When you sell 10 Kiefers , it becomes questionable whether you are refining or decimating your collection . |
| 21 | Without adequate insurance , repairing or replacing your belongings could be extremely expensive . |
| 22 | Revision means more than " re-viewing " or passing your eye across pages of lecture notes . |
| 23 | This tip does not apply if you are camping at Aviemore however , where imagining your surroundings in daylight is worse than anything Hell can come up with . |
| 24 | This is an adventure cruise in the best romantic tradition as you cruise around the beautiful Greek Islands , the scene changing from one day to the next , diving into the clear , blue water as you anchor for the night , or sipping your cooling drink as the harbour lights of a new port twinkle in the distance . |
| 25 | When buying or selling your home , the one certainty is that you will have to go through the legal process commonly known as conveyancing . |
| 26 | If she is not shovelling food down my throat , or forcing your noxious potions upon me , she is — ’ |
| 27 | If you want to carry on working after you are 60 , you have the choice of drawing your state pension and adding your earnings to it , or postponing your retirement . |
| 28 | Right or wringing your hands nervously . |
| 29 | THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BUILDING & FLYING YOUR OWN PLANE , by Geoff Jones . |
| 30 | The Complete Book of Building & Flying Your Own Plane is n't perfect . |