Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you been using that the whole day ? |
| 2 | Returning from Paris on Nov. 5 after talks with President François Mitterrand , President Hassan Gouled Aptidon proposed peace talks with the FRUD on Nov. 20 , but these were then cancelled , the government demanding that the Front release prisoners first . |
| 3 | Radulfus maintained his judicial calm , and the earl 's broad brow was suave and benign , though there was no guessing what went on in the highly intelligent mind behind it ; but Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin sat very erect , stiff in the spine and with long , refined faces sharpened into steel , studiously not looking straight at each other , but maintaining each a bright gaze on distance , and the appearance of considering with magisterial detachment the situation that confronted them . |
| 4 | One set of interviews , with the literary editors of national newspapers , was carried out using half a dozen ‘ topic headings ’ simply to ensure that at each interview I covered the ground I had decided beforehand was important for my purpose . |
| 5 | Now , if everyone had an average-sized lawn which they cut weekly for eight months using half a litre of petrol at each session , they would still burn less than 4 gallons a year . |
| 6 | At certain times of the month and whatever , I could be using half a gram a day and towards the end of the month whatever money I had left went on It . |
| 7 | Altogether about 100 have been cast , using half a dozen basic formats , ranging in size from two to fifteen feet . |
| 8 | Using half the remaining marzipan ( 225g/8oz ) , model a long tail and attach it to the back of the body , smoothing over the join with your fingers . |
| 9 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 10 | The quarrel had started over something as petty as who could spit furthest after eating half a ginger biscuit . |
| 11 | This , as any British climbers knows , involved quaffing gallons of warm beer the night before , eating half a pig and the produce of a hen house the next morning , then spraying the countryside with this heady mixture while approaching the crag . |
| 12 | I said my luxury when Martin was out was eating half a very large cream cake . |
| 13 | When I met Mike , he strolled into the office and apologised for bringing half a farm yard with him . |
| 14 | Sanctions can not possibly ‘ work ’ in the time he can allow for maintaining half a million men in combat readiness thousands of miles from home and for keeping his public opinion with him . |
| 15 | Anything , Richard thought , would be better than sawing half a man 's chest away . |
| 16 | ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’ |
| 17 | However when using this the circuit was prone to electrostatic hum pickup . |
| 18 | Between 1941 and 1947 , Rank 's companies were to be responsible for financing half the films made in Britain . |
| 19 | Bored with the formalities of mid-Victorian high society , often scornfully documented in her private diaries , she sought refuge in a form of neurasthenia and turned her hand to writing popular fiction , producing half a dozen still very readable novels which reflected her rebellious discontent with women 's role as second-class citizens in a world dominated by largely untalented men . |
| 20 | This is why you 're only seeing half the Winchess program . |
| 21 | There has been a feeling that they would compromise with Chelsea to the extent of accepting half the £22.85 million valuation . |
| 22 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 23 | Stoke are still demanding half a million pounds with Celtic offering eighty-five thousand . |
| 24 | The latest , which has now been introduced on a voluntary basis , is that , instead of one of his A levels , a pupil may take two AS ( supplementary ) level examinations , demanding half the time each of a full A level . |
| 25 | Renamo was said to have proposed an army of 24,000 soldiers , with a further 1,000-strong air force and 800-strong navy , with each side contributing half the force . |
| 26 | This was all happening half a century ago , before the invention of the aqualung . |
| 27 | He found another Brahmin cultivating half an acre of land which Ragu had laid claim to and beat the man up with a stick , causing arm fracture , hospitalization and a court case . |
| 28 | When confronted with the difficult problem of explaining this the diffusionist will try to establish the movement 's place of origin . |
| 29 | ‘ I can not believe you were here , in Roma , while I was employing half the detectives in New York to find you ! ’ |
| 30 | Representing half a mile of coastline , its 72 paddles can produce waves and set up currents and tides for scientists to study . |