Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | tearing tin cans in half and lobbing them into the |
| 2 | I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves . |
| 3 | The Rangers will help the area and visitors by advising , guiding and informing them about the Hills and the many interests to be seen and enjoyed . |
| 4 | Much credit is due to the quick thinking of his jockey John Buckingham riding in his first Grand National , in steering him over to the wide outside and popping him through a gap . |
| 5 | Six and moving it to the afternoon yes , it 's er a nice question . |
| 6 | LUKE SAT ON AN expo love-seat in Club World at Heathrow , drinking Volvic and availing himself of a complimentary fax machine — clearing up the initial paperwork with Mike on the poem . |
| 7 | And er getting back to that and cleaning it with a real good clean every single week . |
| 8 | Understandably , perhaps , there is a strong temptation to try to avoid these difficulties by taking qualities as basic and confining oneself to the idea of a plurality of qualities , with particulars being interpreted as bundles of qualities . |
| 9 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 10 | Yet , there also appear dangers in resting content with proposing apparent similarities between past and present and leaving them on the table , as it were . |
| 11 | As an ex-Catholic , ex-alcoholic , ex-hippie fifty-something from New Orleans , dressed in goth-style black and looking something like an old-fashioned schoolmistress , Anne Rice is not your typical American bestseller author . |
| 12 | A new grouping , the Boere Weerstandsbeweging ( BWB — a splinter group of the AWB formed on June 11 and describing itself as the armed wing of the BP ) , pledged solidarity with the BP in its aim of re-establishing former Boer republics . |
| 13 | I should like the opportunity of starving and beating you to a pulp . |
| 14 | After this period you will have to apply again by filling in a new claim form AG 1 and sending it to the Agency Benefits Unit ( see address on page 22 ) . |
| 15 | To find the response , the mirror allocation can be located at point 3 by striking a line from 2 through 1 and extending it for a distance equal to 21 ; i.e. 31 = 12 . |
| 16 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |
| 17 | It 's ten minutes past nine and joining us on the line this morning is er Judy in York good morning Judy . |
| 18 | Chile has also signed mutual tariff-cutting agreements with Argentina and Bolivia , last year doubling its exports to one and increasing them by a third to the other . |
| 19 | If smoking is allowed it stops people doing it in secret and making it into a clever or fashionable thing to do |
| 20 | The men deny taking nude pictures of the girls while they themselves were naked and showing them to the children 's mother . |
| 21 | ‘ There , ’ he said , claiming her achievement as his own and inflating it in the process . |
| 22 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
| 23 | This had immediate commercial implications and the Government suffered an overnight conversion , bringing forward the first Data Protection Bill in February 1983 and reviving it after the election later in the year . |
| 24 | Showaddywaddy , however , are dismissed as ‘ revisionists , taking the revolutionary music of the workers ’ collectives of Memphis in the 1950s and subverting it with a horrible crepe-sole cabaret act . |