Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was using mostly open G , A or E tunings around this time — mostly E , in fact , the old Vastopol tuning . |
| 2 | The fourth section of the screen was scanning a wrecked enemy orbital battle station that was tumbling slowly end over end , locked together with the ruptured Imperial cruiser which had finally rammed it to neutralise it . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'll try again next — ’ Then he broke off , made a tiny adjustment of the device , and suddenly there it was — a rapid , fluttering little beat that was lost again for several seconds as Faye tensed and moved . |
| 4 | Unless their outputs are assessed to determine implications for the organisation 's current and potential strategies , scanning , monitoring and forecasting merely provide ‘ nice-to-know ’ information . |
| 5 | That day , he received three members of the moderate Carlist faction in Salamanca , and informed them of his intention of fusing together Falange and the Traditionalist Communion . |
| 6 | So I thought well I 'm in with a chance , you know , one 's wanted a and this leg repairing so compare it with that no |
| 7 | Each Monday , current intelligence groups for various parts of the world meet in the Cabinet Office , bringing together line men from all the intelligence-gathering agencies and their customer departments . |
| 8 | The policy is to seek a wide range of complementary databases , and it is important for the humanities community to make its requirements known , directly or through the Datasets Inter-Agency Group ( DIAG ) , an advisory body , bringing together dataset providers and funders . |
| 9 | All four rooms are linked by double-door access , Meeting Rooms 3 and 4 being divided by a partition which can be removed to create a larger meeting area , which is useful for bringing together syndicate groups . |
| 10 | Widdel and colleagues propose a third mechanism , the use of ferrous iron as the reductant in light-driven CO 2 fixation by anaerobic bacteria using only photosystem I. Such a pathway is energetically favoured , and its existence is now substantiated by Widdel and co-workers . |
| 11 | When using only flake all the food is fine enough and there is no need to sieve it . |
| 12 | The question of diet generally for elderly people has already been mentioned in Chapter 3 , and all who are trying to ensure that an elderly parent ( particularly one who is living alone ) is eating sensibly know what a difficult problem this is . |
| 13 | We must bring costs under control , preserve quality , preserve choice , and reduce the people 's nagging daily worry about health insurance . |
| 14 | Some moralists say that if we regard immediacy or physical nearness as relevant , we must be failing in rationality or imagination ; we are irrational if we do not recognize that those starving elsewhere have as big a claim on us as those starving here . |
| 15 | Crampons for climbing normally have ten or more downward facing points and two forward facing ones . |
| 16 | The temperature will fall to minus one Celsius and that 's 30 Fahrenheit , so if you 're out driving tonight beware of icy patches on untreated roads . |
| 17 | Gupta says , it will be announcing further support for other platforms later in the year . |
| 18 | Why did that awful wailing always make her want to pee ? |
| 19 | As a result the casings ' ’ open area ’ is increased a hundredfold , allowing more water in and , because the slots are much narrower , keeping more grit out . |
| 20 | But the chances of these considerations occurring still seem slim . |
| 21 | The priest was becoming genuinely panic stricken . |
| 22 | I think I 'll just go home on Sunday and stay at home , go home and s tell my , pretend to my mum I 'm dying like spend all day asleep . |
| 23 | Applying both trust and agency principles , the court concluded that an insider who traded on the basis of material nonpublic information was liable to account to his corporation for the profits . |
| 24 | Not only is the extent of deforestation variable but the reasons why it is occurring also vary from region to region . |
| 25 | If the pattern in Hungary ( for which country data based on vital statistics in 1967 are available ) is a common one , it would appear that , in the more developed countries , at least , maternal age and birth spacing also influence fetal viability independently of each other ( Table 16 ) . |
| 26 | Another commando raid that summer was mounted by 12 Commando ; 16 men led by 2nd Lieutenant Pinkney landing near Ambleteuse where they made a general reconnaissance returning safely to England although a stoker on the naval craft was killed by enemy action , probably during the withdrawal . |
| 27 | However , there are two significant additional factors : on the one hand the parents use sign language and therefore growth in the infants from gesture into sign ( rather than into speech ) is predicted , but on the other hand just over half of the sample infants are hearing and are acquiring both sign language and spoken English during this phase . |
| 28 | But my prize for all time lack of observation goes to the old gentleman who , after walking past row upon row of fish tanks , stacks of fish food and eye-catching displays of pond accessories , looked me straight in the eye and said : ‘ Do you do cheese and tomato sandwiches ? ’ |
| 29 | The people walking past look like puppets , moving all quick and jerky . |
| 30 | Far more pertinently , the parallels with what is happening now scream at anyone with the slightest sense of history . |