Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time you get all this and counting all the years , by the time you 'll be able to afford it ! |
| 2 | Adrian says they 've spent a lot of time in the water … tweaking this and tweaking that and making sure that it has come through production with flying colours … |
| 3 | There is nothing to stop them doing better than this and backdating this improvement . |
| 4 | Please could you let me have a separate estimate for straightening this and doing any necessary repairs to the seat . |
| 5 | But at another level , if we could show love , respect and acceptance for each other in the magnificent diversity that that we show as women , instead of patronising and attacking each other on the basis of our body shapes , that would be a great step forward ! |
| 6 | The aim is to make something people can instantly get excited about but which also stands up to close analysis in terms of being musically interesting and having some kind of content and meaning … ’ |
| 7 | Following the Pliatzky Committee 's report , the ISBA published a very practical guide for its members , describing the process of making a commercial and detailing much of what is involved . |
| 8 | The all-important top soil quickly disappears , and leaches into the rivers , making the water muddy brown and scuppering any chance of a new forest growing up . |
| 9 | Yet , despite increasing their number by almost half and achieving this reclassification in one speedy stroke , the CIVC was curiously quiet about it . |
| 10 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 11 | But it is not their wish that I put myself into their shoes , rather than living free and wishing that for them also . |
| 12 | Some good news on the A one , the earlier abnormal loads which were heading southbound and causing some quite lengthy delays near to Boroughbridge , they 're now parked up near to Wetherby so they 're not causing too many problems at the moment . |
| 13 | The price for tax purposes will now include any accessories added to a car after it is made available to an employee , unless these were made available on or before 31 July 1993 and excluding those worth less than £100 . |
| 14 | I mean the thing that they latch onto all the time is that they think it 's perfectly reasonable that they should compliment a young woman and so on , and I do see , Bill , that this is a problem because these men have been brought up like this and they think of themselves as being polite and courteous and , you know , a little flirtatious and doing all the things that actually they were taught women like and is rather nice . |
| 15 | But he 's puffing and panting all the time . |
| 16 | Shadow lace is formed by knitting every needle on bed 1 , and knitting only certain needles on bed 2 and transferring all or some of the stitches from bed 2 to bed 1 every so often as required by the design . |
| 17 | An Anglo-Catholic priest helped me accept the desert experiences of prayer — no-one had ever told me , after an experience of personal renewal , to expect the stripping and refining that was not a falling from grace but a growth in it . |
| 18 | Repeated instances are encountered of boys and girls displaying their genitals to one another and examining each other 's sexual parts . |
| 19 | Great swarms of starlings and thrushes raid the vineyards by day , pecking at large numbers of grapes but eating few and causing more damage indirectly by rot than by anything else . |
| 20 | It has been claimed that some will have to choose between keeping warm and having enough to eat . |
| 21 | The onset of winter presents most animals with the dual problem of keeping warm and finding enough to eat . |
| 22 | I think you know I was con trying to concentrate on getting the facts over and doing it properly and not listening for the comments so much and thinking more you know what , what can I get out of this here erm |
| 23 | Although applicants are entitled to legal representation , they are not always legally represented , the proceedings being simple and involving little or no legal principle . |
| 24 | He was reading early and getting all his relations and uncles and aunts to say ‘ Och , they 're old so young these days ’ and things like that before I was even born . ’ |
| 25 | There were no ski-lifts so those who wanted higher slopes than the nurseries rose early and carrying all their gear — wire for repairs , spare sealskin gloves , sweaters and food — in a rucksack , climbed for three or four hours and then skied down , reaching the village by twilight , just in time to change for après-ski activities . |
| 26 | Squares and diamonds are very easy and knitting these in different colours can be extremely effective . |
| 27 | The Chronicle describes his besieging ‘ the city of Andred ’ in 490 and slaughtering all the defenders . |
| 28 | But I 'm giving you four extra and taking these two out . |
| 29 | The keys fell to the ground just as fast as the paper , despite the keys being a lot heavier and needing more force . |
| 30 | I see their hopes like Masai villages , impermanent and leaving few marks on the landscape . |