Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [v-ing] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Trumping of the souvenir market goes back to a boyhood in Portsmouth and a hobby of collecting shells and making creatures out of them . |
| 2 | It was because the people were used to that kind of society with a secret police and er government inspectors and sending people out to Siberia and putting |
| 3 | The powers that be over at Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and SunSoft Inc are starting to collect complaints from cloners and resellers over the way SMCC salesmen are hustling volume accounts , not playing by the rules and nosing compatibles out of upgrade sites . |
| 4 | He will be working alongside the union 's director of coaching , assisting coaches and coaching coordinators through to U21 level . |
| 5 | The album , an 11-track journey through rave , techno and other strands of electronic manipulations , including covering ground that would have been too difficult in a singles format , ie ambient and floaty , and demonstrating Eon 's influences that range from Pink Floyd and King Crimson to Depeche Mode , Juan Atkins and , erm , repairing stereos and making contraptions out of spare electronic bits . |
| 6 | Classroom talk , despite the apparent conversational liveliness of many classrooms , could be shown on closer examination to be somewhat impoverished and unchallenging , with a general tendency to discourage children from asking their own questions and thinking things out for themselves , and a lack of informative feedback . |
| 7 | If I 'm boring this time , you have n't tried it , but if you , if you can do it then erm , it 'll be a really interesting session , of sort of getting together in groups and discussing the problems and sorting ways out of problems . |
| 8 | He steers himself into the current of warm air rising above the chandelier , and is carried effortlessly upwards , past floors where people are sitting at little tables and eating ice-cream out of metal goblets . |
| 9 | Jake had had no real friends except Ben ; he had often been at the house in those old days , never saying much , but good at mending broken toys and constructing dolls out of handkerchiefs and folded paper . |
| 10 | At 4.30 am the Corporal of the day , a squat pig-like Polynesian called Vigno , came round the rooms , turning on the lights , throwing open the windows and tipping people out of bed , at the same time screaming at us in French to get downstairs on to the parade ground for ‘ appel ’ or roll call . |
| 11 | He had a habit of spitting into his hands and licking moisture on to his fingers while he worked . |
| 12 | They can be the ‘ power behind the throne– , using what power they have to its fullest potential : analysing situations , forming appropriate alliances and putting messages over in a palatable way to the right audience . |