Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he believed that football had grown too complex to be a mere ‘ director 's hobby ’ , Chapman set out to foster harmonious relations at the very top , by acting in a spirit of co-operation with his directors , keeping them fully informed of team matters , and taking their suggestions into account . |
| 2 | Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension . |
| 3 | Because really , you 're investigating what actually happens in life . |
| 4 | New competences may be acquired , others may become redundant as the contexts calling them forth change in relation to the situation of the social actor . |
| 5 | To be honest , I kinda like that loose , gliding feel , but when you 're getting everything totally nailed to perfection — the drums , the bass , the rhythms and the lead — the songs just have a ‘ snap ’ to them . ’ |
| 6 | Ed 's comment : While I agree with your comments in principle , Mr Huyton , it has to be said that Audrey Reid 's article in PFK also recommended shop or scrap glass but suggested getting it professionally cut to size . |
| 7 | They were concerned with variety of opinion , editorial freedom , partisan bias — values having nothing directly to do with economics and industry . |
| 8 | It provides subordinates with greater job satisfaction by giving them more say in decision-making which affects their work . |
| 9 | As a local authority employee you can be authorised to appear on its behalf in the Magistrates ' Courts , giving you early experience in advocacy . |
| 10 | Doing anything more led to agony , sleepless nights , months of drinking and moping and boring her closest friends to death . |
| 11 | In the case of the Electricity and Gas Directives ( assuming they eventually come into force ) there is the added factor that the nationalised monopolist is likely to be closely involved in determining the crucial safety and security issues . |
| 12 | When Sabin developed his attenuated strains of polio he energetically pursued his goal of making them widely accepted as vaccine strains . |
| 13 | Robbie lay there , telling herself sternly to go to sleep . |
| 14 | He grinned unrepentantly , watching her deep blush of embarrassment with apparent fascination . |
| 15 | After mating she soon goes off heat and the two can remain together if necessary until the fifth week of the gestation period , when the male ferret is removed . |