Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you ever been walking or driving towards a destination and completely missed your turning because your mind was somewhere else ? |
| 2 | If this is the case we may be standing , sitting or walking in a way that is putting enormous stresses on our structure without us even being aware of it at all . |
| 3 | Nor are the decisive , deliberate , well coordinated movements of leaping over tables and chairs , or miaowing like a cat while turning somersaults on the floor , in the category of tics . |
| 4 | She always paused for rather too long before answering a question or responding to a remark for she feared that if she answered hastily she would say something unseemly . |
| 5 | ( 20 ) Listening or talking to a visitor or outside " expert " . |
| 6 | fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a |
| 7 | Included here are such delights as classic commando style , where the rope merely slides through both outstretched arms and across the upper back ; or abseiling from a sling and descendeur with the sling attached to either wrist or ankle — all great fun . |
| 8 | Or working within a bank and somebody runs in with a shotgun , what sort of behaviour then ? |
| 9 | Advertising is such a complicated business that you may be able to assimilate it better if you have spent a few years " knocking-around " — travelling perhaps , or working in a shop or doing different kinds of jobs . |
| 10 | A dancer coming forwards can convey a variety of meaning : giving a greeting ; asking a question , even if it is only an inquisitive movement of the head ; saying Yes , or agreeing with a nod or with a particular wave of the hand ; giving something with arms circling outwards , e.g. Natalia and the Tutor when they open their arms to each other ; or merely proffering a hand at the beginning of a dance , e.g. Paris offering his hand to Juliet . |
| 11 | This desire is also reflected in the encouragement given to pupils to undertake group projects , perhaps in making a display , organizing fund-raising events or planning for an excursion or residential experience . |
| 12 | A month later he struck in a suburb of Milton Keynes — loosing control of a Ford Granada and crashing into a fence and a parked car . |
| 13 | Because of the extra buffers this salt does not claim to be the fastest dissolving around , and aerating for an hour after mixing may improve results . |
| 14 | Hairy Back was smoking his pipe and laughing with a neighbour as he stood at his gate . |
| 15 | Far from letting go , he wrestled like a mad thing , kicking out with his boots and laughing like a maniac when the branch flicked across her throat and drew blood . |
| 16 | Mansell admitted drink-driving , two charges of driving with defective tyres and driving on a motorway while a provisional licence holder . |
| 17 | Cook admitted stealing the bus from Kelvin Central Bus depot in Kirkintilloch on 20 March last year and driving without a licence or insurance . |
| 18 | It can be released through physical action such as sawing logs , by stamping one 's foot onto the accelerator and driving like a maniac or simply by smashing a plate . |
| 19 | However the gem is surely the Third Ballade with the opening pages played as if improvised on the spot , the figuration commencing at 3′34″ foaming and cascading with a freedom and liberality unknown to most players . |
| 20 | There he found Ann sweeping dirt out of the front door into the street , and inside , Sam Gristy , who was holding Martha 's hand and looking like a cat that 's stolen the clotted cream . |
| 21 | Which meant sorting out wheat from chaff , and living like a rajah while he did so . |
| 22 | And his eyes — piercing , vividly blue , and glittering with a light that she was yet too young to understand , but which called to something very feminine within her . |
| 23 | A Heron adviser said yesterday the asset protection measures had been put in place to prevent somebody ‘ charging in and acting in a way that does n't benefit all creditors ’ . |
| 24 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
| 25 | Later excavation under the direction of Dr. Euan MacKie found that the work of building the circle was never completed and owing to a miscalculation or perhaps an unfavourable omen , was abandoned . |
| 26 | Something interesting happened to me that I never really thought about , erm , but I used to get these dreams where I used to dream that I 'd be either falling off a cliff or driving a car and getting into an accident and like or driving off a cliff . |
| 27 | And getting in a tiss and shouting wo n't make it go away . |
| 28 | Most foliage houseplants need a period of rest in mid winter , so keep feeding and watering to a minimum until new growth starts in the spring . |
| 29 | Some 95 per cent of mail order transactions involve credit , and buying from a tallyman or doorstep credit trader virtually by definition means buying on weekly instalments . |
| 30 | In the early scenes she sometimes seems less like a human than a terrified wild animal , and she is in extraordinary form in her first public apppearance at Mrs Higgins 's tea party , moving with the stiffness of an automaton and speaking in a voice that sounds like a Martian after a course at the Berlitz . |