Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the child is behaving well or playing quietly the typical parental attitude is ‘ let sleeping dogs lie ’ . |
| 2 | He is an expert in grading wools that come from all over the world and blending together the many different types for yarn production . |
| 3 | I doubt that she 'll ever go upstairs again , ’ he added , going to the window and pushing aside the long red drapes . |
| 4 | Beyond that there is the sheer cost involved in visiting all of its customers and replacing the BT box on their wall with another , more expensive one and writing off the old analogue exchange line cards . |
| 5 | Spent and trembling once the nasty little interlude was over , she then set about trying to tidy herself up . |
| 6 | She re-read his covering note again , picking up and turning over the other enclosed letter in her hands . |
| 7 | Because of that , the cost of supervising and enforcing even the new goal-related safety regime will be higher . |
| 8 | For westerners this may seem odd : in karate , you will see people in starched white uniforms fighting each other and letting out the odd blood-curdling scream . |
| 9 | The next sonnet in the sequence begins with Astrophil looking at his heart and finding there the conventional poetic image of love 's wounding arrow . |
| 10 | While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way . |
| 11 | In Gubisch Maschinenfabrik K.G. v. Palumbo ( Case 144/86 ) [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4861 , which Mr. Beazley relied on as laying down the broad general principles which should be applicable , and which concerned the interpretation of article 21 of the Brussels Convention , the Court of Justice stated , at p. 4874 : |