Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One bright spot is the growing interest in artists using photography such as Cindy Sherman , Gilbert & George , Gunther Forg and John Baldessari . |
| 2 | Gathering speed all the time , I rushed outside and hailed a taxi . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been pissing blood all night , Tony . |
| 4 | I hope not , because you may be able to fill a gap in the market , and at the very least you will be using your knitting machine and gaining experience all the time . |
| 5 | It was a question of faith — keeping faith all the way . |
| 6 | This can leave him in an uncomfortably exposed position , while denying Parliament any effective control . |
| 7 | In the context of the negativity of this formulation , Sartre is obliged to pose once again the problem of whether there can be a totalization , without any independent totalizer or totalizing force such as the dialectic , or whether the structure of negation that he has described means that , as for Adorno or Bakhtin , history does not develop positively but , rather , negatively , and is therefore instead detotalizing : |
| 8 | Mark and I are driving south this Thursday — only a 2–day working week for me ( whee ! ) . |
| 9 | If you do get sunburnt , try using a soothing , cooling product such as Aloe Vera Burn Relief Gel , £2.95 , from Nectar Beauty Shops . |
| 10 | Start by noticing colour all around you . |
| 11 | With a scream of sheering steel several containers slewed to one side , smashing into each other like giant rectangular dice . |
| 12 | When the adventurers first arrive , Maximilian opens his eyes and begins to awaken ; from this moment on , he is gaining strength all the time . |
| 13 | Whatever we may have felt , however , we had to be careful not to show too much dislike , because the Repubblichini were gaining strength all the time . |
| 14 | Rocket immunoelectrophoresis and radial immunodiffusion procedures , although time consuming and requiring expertise , may be required for analysing samples which contain interfering material such as lipaemic and icteric samples . |
| 15 | Make an extra portion of salad if you are eating salad that evening , and leave it in the fridge to be collected as you leave for work in the morning . |
| 16 | I was less impressed by a news story in the Sunday Times announcing that the Pope is cracking down on sinners for Easter week : ‘ The Pope has ordered priests in the confessional box to clamp down on sin as churches prepare for the traditional Easter rush of sinners seeking forgiveness this week , ’ it announced knowingly . |
| 17 | in the cell block and we and somebody was causing trouble many many years ago |
| 18 | Methods of operation of the Awe barrage since passing into private ownership have again been causing controversy this winter . |
| 19 | As well as a means of publicising information this is a document of some importance administratively , since without it the register would be cluttered , to a greater extent than it is , with files of moribund companies abandoned by their members . |
| 20 | After regaining autonomy some wished to strengthen the changes , others to reject them . |
| 21 | Slovenly speech is a bad habit , for example , saying ‘ aving ’ instead of ‘ having ’ , ‘ jer know ’ instead of ‘ do you know ’ ? ‘ jist ’ instead of ‘ just ’ , and using slang such as ‘ OK , Yeh , ai n't it , arf a mo , hang on ’ . |
| 22 | Second , in the NATO member states , the relative lack of formal restrictions has contributed to the public unease about defence policy , which is associated in people 's minds with threats of all-out nuclear war : far from assisting deterrence this situation is highly corrosive so far as effective defence and deterrence are concerned . |
| 23 | In using Logo these aspects of knowledge cease to be merely mathematical concepts but are very much part of the process of the problem-solving activity . |
| 24 | He realized that she was pleading for- some reason , but was n't quite sure why . |
| 25 | When it was he proceeded to colour it , either from memory , or with colour notes made under the same conditions as the original drawing , paying attention most of all to tonal values and local colour . |
| 26 | But Ah tell ye this , laddie , Ah 'm a helluva fast learner , so do n't think ye can pull the wool or sit around on yer fat little arse doin' bugger all . |
| 27 | In a cordial team atmosphere , the work involves extracting information such as the biological source of sequences and regions of interest within them ( e.g. , coding regions , promoters ) from scientific reports . |
| 28 | If you go to see this football club to watch the football match , you are not allowed to park on the grass verge outside because the police do n't let you but if you go to a car boot sale at the football club the next day the cars , the grass verge is littered with cars cos it 's Sunday presumably and the police are not allowed to enforce on it so I do think that some of the traffic problems maybe need to be more carefully reinforced to stop this , you know , to stop the dealers you 're not going tyo these places but you know I think you do need to , you do need to , to regulate them but please , you know , do n't let's push them out altogether . |
| 29 | When I wake up , maybe I 'll find that , like the death of Bobby in Dallas , all the recent news has been some kind of bad dream and that labels like Sarah , Non Fiction , Play It Again Sam and Cooking Vinyl all have bands on Top Of The Pops . |
| 30 | I said , " No , I 'll be getting money this way for her . " |