Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [coord] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are so many paths and old miners ' tracks around this area of Swaledale that you could spend years walking them and exploring the old workings and still not cover them all . |
| 2 | The lower age limit on party membership was reduced to 16 ; this came after the party lost 700,000 members since reconstituting itself and coming a humiliating fourth place in the national elections in March and April [ see p. 37380 ] . |
| 3 | Between 1532 and 1534 , the passing of each individual piece of legislation was closely followed by the appearance of official government propaganda justifying it and anticipating the next move , a fact that suggests that a coherent policy was unfolding by this stage . |
| 4 | forget the error or the cause of the problem and get on with correcting it and avoiding a worse situation . |
| 5 | They commissioned William White to build the church in 1871 , built a school and new cottages , pulled down the old manor and the cottages surrounding it and erected a large Victorian house . |
| 6 | Of course it conflicts with the commercial urgency of producing something or gaining a new market . |
| 7 | This is largely the result of a dramatic increase in the level of reported and detected crime over the same period , though it also reflects decisions by the police and prosecuting authorities to deal with such offenders by means of prosecuting them instead of cautioning them or taking no further action . |
| 8 | It was only when the other girl paused in the middle of saying something and turned an enquiring face in her own direction , eyebrows raised enquiringly , a patronising smile on her flawless countenance , that Rune appeared to recollect her existence ! |
| 9 | As Vivian Salmon has shown , awkwardness in pronunciation , ‘ where the — st suffix of the Thou- form stood in close proximity to consonants whose assimilation was difficult , or would have resulted in syntactic ambiguity ’ , led to a preference for the You form or for one retaining Thou but adding an unstressed do , as in ‘ What didst thou lose ? ’ or ‘ It was ourself thou didst abuse ’ . |
| 10 | Discriminatory and punitive rates , like Mr Smith 's 59 per cent , not only put many of the most agile brains in the country to work to find ways of avoiding them but create a profound disinclination to work harder or take risks when you have to give nearly 60 per cent of it to the Government . |
| 11 | And it , it does sound , I , I must say we 've , we 've having flowers everywhere and I think the whole evening 's going to be very nice and we 're looking forward to everybody enjoying themselves and having a good time . |
| 12 | ‘ If you 're really enjoying yourself and having a good time , you do n't really notice the camera . ’ |
| 13 | She will recognize that the client is repeating himself or demanding a particular reaction from her . |
| 14 | Asked to explain why he had burst into the bedroom of his landlady 's attractive teenage daughter , Tom away the towel with which she was drying herself and started a close fingertip search of her backside , Berkas explained that he had left a valuable foreign stamp soaking in the bath and returned to find that it had disappeared . |
| 15 | He catches me watching him and smiles a naughty smile which thrills me to the core . |
| 16 | Sometimes Gina sat on the lavatory watching him and making a bad smell or laughing . |
| 17 | That 's that 's one thing , but is finding the tenth root of something and then raising to the power six , or raising something to the power six and then finding the sa the tenth root , is that the same as finding the fifth root and cubing it or cubing it and finding the fifth root . |
| 18 | He knew thanks were required but the effort of offering them and making a satisfactory excuse seemed altogether too much . |
| 19 | Antony Bourgois , 20 , of no fixed address , faces three charges — the attempted abduction of Lizzie Lamplugh , 22 , a publishing assistant , falsely imprisoning her and carrying an offensive weapon . |