Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than start from a symbol and find what sentences can be generated from it , one can begin with a sentence and a grammar , and find a way of generating that sentence . |
| 2 | Still floppy from giggling they were careful to avoid catching each other 's eye , but there was warmth and repose enough there to set against the hardness of the day 's demands . |
| 3 | Ultimately , however , Egyptian Christianity 's most lasting effect was less its simple perpetuation of Nazarean thought than its development of an administrative system for housing and transmitting that thought . |
| 4 | It romanticized revolution and regularized insubordination , sanctifying that preference for violent individual action that was to bedevil the politics of nineteenth-century Spain . |
| 5 | Icke , whose only previous North-East connection was in forecasting that Teesside later amended to Tayside would be under water by Christmas , has been signed as a goalie by Jewson Wessex League club Ryde Sports . |
| 6 | Now such respected independent institutions as the Fraser of Allander Institute are forecasting that recovery will not arrive until the second half of the year . |
| 7 | The adolescent Bisus were coming out of trance , and now sat bruised and perspiring together , simpering and repairing each other 's damaged make-up . |
| 8 | However you may be interested to know what goes into producing each issue . |
| 9 | So it may well be that indirectly , whether consciously or unconsciously Trivers ' own thinking was influenced by Freudian findings erm , I do n't know , I 'm pursuing that possibility . |
| 10 | But I hope that by pursuing that course we can also help others set high standards — help others win the argument for paying for good journalism : for supporting good journalism ; for scheduling good journalism . |
| 11 | ‘ A Government with any heart and sense would already be pursuing that strategy . ’ |
| 12 | Whether or not he believed Maureen 's claim that her father met his death at the hands of political opponents , Brian Berg was dutifully pursuing that line . |
| 13 | You 're in danger of every time you 're praising that person , they 're going to be sitting back waiting for the straight away , so you could n't , if you go up to somebody and they 've generally done a superb job and you ca n't fault him , and he knows he 's done a really good job , but he 's just sitting back waiting for you to way what , what you 've done wrong . |
| 14 | ‘ Jorja , stop poisoning that boy 's mind against me . ’ |
| 15 | They are a lovey-dovey couple , much given , for reasons that remain obscure , to roguishly gagging each other with bits of masking tape , but tension sets in with the arrival of Clara 's best friend Lillibet from America . |
| 16 | The apple trees covered the whole orchard and were very close together , most of their branches touching each other . |
| 17 | And if the herd is threatened , they will gallop off together or maybe huddle together , touching each other for reassurance . |
| 18 | But it should n't make people scared of touching each other . |
| 19 | And she reached up and rubbed out the two upright strokes , replacing them with diagonal ones leaning in and touching each other at the top . |
| 20 | A set of teeth like pincers , biting upon one another , i.e. both rows of the incisors touching each other directly , is still admissible . |
| 21 | They have developed the pleasant habit of touching each other on the shoulder in time of trouble , as a sort of physical sympathy . |
| 22 | And if you dream you see two moons touching each other , you will certainly be marry 'd very speedily , whether you be a young man , maid or widow . |
| 23 | They were always touching each other ; they fucked the lecturers and asked them for money for drugs . |
| 24 | When the plate was heated and the resin brought to melting point , myriads of dust particles adhered , touching each other but with minute spaces between . |
| 25 | They were looking at each other and touching each other in such a funny way . |
| 26 | In one study , less than 5 per cent of the aggressive encounters involved the goats touching each other . |
| 27 | They stood almost touching each other for a full minute . |
| 28 | There would be times for tenderness , and one such time came later , in the aftermath of passion enriched by the knowledge of love , a bonus as they lay touching each other languidly and lovingly , luxuriating in the freedom of being able to express their feelings in this alternative way , confidently but without urgency . |
| 29 | In our restlessness , we walked about the house , talking , touching each other . |
| 30 | Nicholle , from Bristol , and Janine , from London , will try to combat this by becoming body-buddies , phoning each other to scold and encourage . |