Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fr Leonardo Boff , a renowned Brazilian liberation theologist condemned by the Vatican to a year 's silence in 1985 [ see p. 33823 ] , was banned by the Vatican with effect from Jan. 1 , 1990 , from preaching or pursuing his theological teaching at the university in Petrópolis , 50 km north-east of Rio de Janeiro . |
| 2 | Once employment has terminated the employee may still damage his former employer 's business by : ( a ) competing with his former employer ; ( b ) canvassing or soliciting his former employer 's business connections ; ( c ) using or disclosing his former employer 's business secrets ; or ( d ) enticing his former colleagues away from his former employer to his new employer or business . |
| 3 | Once employment has terminated the employee may still damage his former employer 's business by : ( a ) competing with his former employer ; ( b ) canvassing or soliciting his former employer 's business connections ; ( c ) using or disclosing his former employer 's business secrets ; or ( d ) enticing his former colleagues away from his former employer to his new employer or business . |
| 4 | It was marred by a puckered scar which had destroyed his cheek , beginning just above the right-hand corner of his mouth , but , fortunately for him , narrowly missed his eye to disappear into his hair , twisting and distorting his whole face . |
| 5 | She crept quietly down to find out what was happening and heard her 5-year-old girl tell her 3-year-old brother to open the fridge and get out some chocolate . |
| 6 | To take advantage of new technology as it comes along while still protecting and preserving our existing hardware investments . |
| 7 | This will allow them to make a substantial contribution to the local economy by utilising and developing their particular skills . |
| 8 | They had forged an acquaintance over transatlantic phone calls in the dead of British nights — enquiring , explaining and arranging my present appointment . |
| 9 | You will be able to see them opening and closing their huge mouths as they intercept items of food which the current is bringing to them . |
| 10 | Even now , as she smiled at her son 's antics — he was laughing and clapping his little hands together and making mischievous faces at Cissie , who adored him — memories of Tyler besieged her heart . |
| 11 | ‘ I have not ! ’ said Franca , laughing and imitating his Irish intonation . |
| 12 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 13 | Then he went over to the window , and gazed down into Hand and Ball Court for several minutes , frowning and pushing his lower lip up alternately . |
| 14 | Squealing and squawking and leaving its dirty nappies all over the show . ’ |
| 15 | — One day , Amadé follows him in stealth to his fish ponds , and she sees him — well — she sees him loving and petting his new love , and she feels her heart inside breaking . |
| 16 | They reacted by inventing ways of avoiding teachers ' authority , escaping from supervision and doing the things which they valued most : smoking , drinking , swearing and wearing their own variation on the school uniform . |
| 17 | Those who could n't read the words made them up , and Tich , who 'd lost his glasses , settled for singing ‘ Widecombe Fair ’ instead , coughing , spluttering and relishing his last night out . |
| 18 | Instead of simply proclaiming " art for art 's sake " they attempted to create a body of work which was on its own terms self-sufficient , with its own order and tradition , capable of embodying and communicating its own values . |
| 19 | Add extra fun to your hobby and greater nutrients for your fish by hatching and growing your own Brine-shrimp . |
| 20 | Their agility gives them the edge , not so much in dispossessing an attacker but in evading attempts to win back the ball and in creating time and space for passing and regenerating their own offence . |
| 21 | Rodin was a skilful salesman of his work , making careful use of photography in establishing and maintaining his good name . |
| 22 | A man appeared at the end of the street , shouting and fluttering his white arms : his robe billowed like a sheet on a washing line . |
| 23 | Thus the development of the laws of war has consisted of an effort to maintain and affirm certain basic principles , while developing and refining their specific application to the changes in methods of warfare and the continual and horrific increase in humanity 's capacity to destroy itself . |
| 24 | Every individual has to find her way of tapping and using her creative resources , whether her daily environment is a home or an office . |
| 25 | His secretary had come to regard lying to me as part of her job and even our friends lied for him , aiding and abetting my dick-led husband in a misguided effort to protect me . |
| 26 | I take the true rule to be that where a specific article is offered for sale , without express warranty , or without circumstances from which the law will imply a warranty … and the buyer has full opportunity of inspecting and forming his own judgment , the rule caveat emptor applies . |
| 27 | He was flexing and twisting his simian arms , as if limbering up for violence . |
| 28 | The Ego is an expert at being defensive , at rationalising and justifying its own behaviour , at seeing itself as the hapless victim of a cruel , harsh world . |
| 29 | She was still trembling but wore her defiant look again . |
| 30 | Their political interests in maintaining and extending their social position and power depend on a stable regime which they help maintain through repression , through the manipulation of potential dissenting groups and through maintaining the loyalty of other powerful social classes who have a conflicting interest in the distribution of state income ( Ziemann and Lanzendorfer 1977 ) . |