Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's now about bringing everyone together for the good of British rugby , ’ said the Scot . |
2 | ‘ It was very competitive with everyone stabbing everyone else in the back as they tried to become stars . |
3 | Impact printers are the largest group and consist of three main sub categories ; dot matrix , daisy wheel and ink jet and , apart from the latter which actually fires its ink these operate by pressing something hard through a ribbon in order to leave an impression on the sheet of paper . |
4 | But as they do need the financial background too , finding a suitable candidate to take on the finance director role , particularly of a large organisation , can be a problem and it 's not unknown for a company to invest considerable time and money in training someone specially for the job , though it is rare . |
5 | The malodorous slime has the dual effects of choking anyone too near the Troll and also making it extremely hard for an attacker to land a blow . |
6 | This means that you thunder down the approach at Spitfire cruising-speed till , upon reaching a point one minute from the runway , you almost stop the aircraft in mid-air ( sending anyone inside towards the windshield ) , then bring it down at Bonanza-pace to a landing which , with practice , can be as short as 1,100 feet . |
7 | I bathed , dressed , and broke my fast with some left-overs from the fridge , a pint of water and a couple of brace of Paracetamol , all without encountering anybody else in the house . |
8 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
9 | Alternatively , you can start a discussion by asking someone just beyond the offender to speak first and then go round the meeting leaving him until last . |
10 | He 's coming home tomorrow — And we 'll probably be doing something together in the afternoon . |
11 | ‘ I do n't like having anyone else in the cockpit while I 'm driving , ’ she said , ‘ that 's all . ’ |
12 | It too might be 32-bit , but IBM is n't giving anything away at the moment . |
13 | The old man does tell the visitor the story of the woman of Porto Pim ( and his own ) , but there remains something menacing about the silence of the listener-narrator , as though he were taking something away with no intention of giving anything in return . |
14 | ( If you 've followed the logic of the earlier chapters you will at once see that this is n't a perfect control , as the water-trained birds may be learning something else about the bead — but I 'll come to that later . |
15 | Perhaps to avoid taking anything home from the bothy at all , you could stick a candle in some old bacon fat , or a UHT milk carton . |
16 | yeah and erm she was snogging someone else at the time I think |
17 | They behave similarly should a man appear carrying anything remotely like a gun ( for example , a cricket bat , a length of scaffolding or an umbrella ) . |
18 | But , said Ramsey , the idea that we can get Christian unity by going for a highest common factor and leaving everything else in the shadow will not work . |
19 | The final part of the weekend was spent packing everything away in the van . |
20 | The figure halved a calabash , laying one half on the youth 's navel , emptying the sacrificed cockerel 's blood into it , before bidding the youth to drink from it . |
21 | ‘ Everybody 's following everybody else at the moment ; everybody 's got very serious and safe . |