Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My childhood was all about manners and how to hold your knife and fork and which glass to drink out of , and we had to curtsey , and as for my father , well , if I was looking like this — with blonde hair hanging down and the red lipstick — he would say I looked like a slut . |
| 2 | Passengers were still climbing off while the second load of passengers were scrambling on . |
| 3 | Walking out after the first act was becoming an addiction . |
| 4 | Well I fucking done th see last Thursday I done our front garden and our back garden , I do n't know what fucking else I did n't do , and then I was storming out and the fucking dishes Willy |
| 5 | Everyone knew this was going on but the vast profits involved generated a convenient blanket of economic hypocrisy . |
| 6 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 7 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending , which I think is what Good is abou is suggesting , if carried on properly on market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the financial institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 8 | If the Minister for Sport was on the Treasury Bench , I would ask him — instead , I ask all hon. Members and the country — what is going on when the general secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation puts his name and that of his organisation to a positive argument in favour of tobacco sponsorship in sport ? |
| 9 | The quiet , rustic public rooms are perfect for relaxing in and the cosy bar is wonderful for a peaceful drink in the evening . |
| 10 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 11 | The hole in the screen coincided with screams and the lights going up and the immediate disappearance of the images . |
| 12 | Bill Copland ordered action stations at midnight , when the German searchlights were going out as the anti-aircraft defences stood down . |
| 13 | For instance , horses in a field on the side of a road will totally ignore traffic rushing by because the older horses show no fear and just continue grazing . |
| 14 | With neither the political crisis that Labour 's resignation from the Government would have caused , nor the industrial explosion , which — however much pacifists might fear it — would undoubtedly have created new possibilities for their politics , the momentum that had been building up since the Russian Revolution nearly a year earlier was sharply checked . |
| 15 | In education , since 1979 the percentage of pupils staying on until the fifth year has increased from 35 per cent . |
| 16 | These are sheets of paper divided vertically into two , one side forming a list of value moving in and the other list of value moving out . |
| 17 | These are sheets of paper divided vertically into two , one side forming a list of value moving in and the other list of value moving out . |
| 18 | Roberts ( 4.5 ) surveys the literature on youth , pointing out that the traditional focus on how youth cultures have functioned so as to reconcile young people to adult roles in employment and family life have lost a crucial element — the expectation that young people ( especially those with only basic education ) would have jobs available . |
| 19 | His officers were aghast , pointing out that the minimum turning circle was half a mile and did their best to dissuade him . |
| 20 | In pointing out that the specific forms of marriage , family , property , and gender relations which existed in their time had not always existed , Marx and Engels were completely right , but in arguing positively that these things were totally absent in primitive society , they were , as we shall see , almost totally wrong . |
| 21 | The government issued a clarification on Aug. 29 pointing out that the new reservations applied only to jobs and not to educational places . |
| 22 | GEOGRAPHY lessons in Yugoslav schools used to start with the teacher pointing out that the first letters of the names of the states surrounding Yugoslavia added up to the word brigama , ‘ worries ’ . |
| 23 | As a member of the UK Offshore Operators Association , BP will make submissions pointing out that the general tenor of the tax changes should also encourage more efficient production from existing oilfields by creating incentives to recover more oil and gas . |
| 24 | Marx was pointing out that the capitalist assumption that what motivates man everywhere and for all time is the search for profit , is totally misleading and is itself a product of capitalism . |
| 25 | Embarrassment at the lack of results was brushed off by pointing out that the social sciences were new , and therefore could not be expected to achieve the theoretical power of the natural sciences straight away . |
| 26 | Members of the public expressed some dismay that the new lighting would be yellow , pointing out that the white light gives a character and atmosphere to this conservation area which should not be altered . |
| 27 | But the Tories have been quick to draw comfort from the latest figures , pointing out that the underlying trend showed that the rate of increase appeared to be levelling off in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 28 | It is worth pointing out that the British PWR design is largely based on the Bechtel-Westinghouse Standardised Nuclear Unit Power Plant System ( SNUPPS ) . |
| 29 | He walked onto the runway but was cleared of tresspass after pointing out that the public right of way as marked on maps actually crosses part of the base . |
| 30 | I join the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare ( Mr. Wiggin ) in pointing out that the Inland Waterways Association believes that it was not sufficiently consulted on the Bill . |