Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [coord] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People stopped dancing and stood in silence looking over at it . |
| 2 | Some of them I slept out on , others — about half of them — I soloed , which I like doing and choose from preference these days . ’ |
| 3 | He had at last accepted her as a friend and began whining and wriggling with pleasure as she approached . |
| 4 | Neighbour Dino Guarisco said : ‘ They used to walk their dogs , started talking and fell in love . ’ |
| 5 | If you want to take home brewing to a more advanced stage , which entails mashing and boiling with malt and hops rather than extracts , you should buy ‘ The Big Book of Brewing ’ by Dave Line or ‘ Brewing Better Beers ’ by Ken Shales . |
| 6 | Painful bowel movements were thought to be present if the child complained of pain during defecation or when the child exhibited screaming or crying in anticipation of , or during , defecation , if the parent reported blood on the stool or if the child had an anal fissure present at the time of examination . |
| 7 | If a wife is going to be out all day and her husband refuses to help in the home , she may have to consider arranging or paying for help if she can afford to — in order to do what she wants to do . |
| 8 | The other rig , unaware of anything wrong , kept going and disappeared from view along the driveway . |
| 9 | The peculiar nature of this journey , that the willed progress is experienced as a divine gift , is a consequence of this theology : In chapter twenty-four Hilton uses the repetitions and cadences of rhetoric to convey this recognition of the activities of a God whose powers are conceived in Trinitarian terms of creating giving and responding in love at the heart of the self : At this point Hilton widens the scope of the metaphor of the journey to Jerusalem — the knowledge of Christ in the soul — by warning that the way from the light of the world to the light of heaven leads through darkness which he describes as " a tymeful space bitwix two daies " ( 24.89v. – 234 ) . |
| 10 | There was increased reseeding and cutting for silage , which entails heavy fertilization of the grass so that it grows very quickly to give you an early crop , then putting in more fertilizer to enable you to cut it again . |
| 11 | Secretor state was assessed on saliva samples taken fasting and treated with centrifugation and heat inactivation . |
| 12 | JC : … suddenly having to stop singing and launch into speech … |
| 13 | She could n't break down and start crying and yelling in front of Roman 's family and friends , could she ? |
| 14 | She could be bluffing we do n't that do we for certain erm yes we have got one who will accept the salary yes we could take one from outside the field that 's why I wanted this deadline so if we do n't get the increase in salary by this date we can then start planning and take on board the second tier level |
| 15 | Whether to marry or pursue a career ; when to have children — or , indeed , whether to have them at all ; whether and when to return to work after the children are born ; whether to continue working or stay at home and look after an aged relative — the problems for today 's woman are endless . |
| 16 | Girls wishing to avoid such a fate should shun wearing or passing near fairy flowers , such as clumps of harebells or love-in-idleness . |
| 17 | All the horses are getting pretty fit , and need schooling and jumping in preparation for the rapidly approaching event season . |