Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the morning I might spend at the beach , in season , or in the park or a café , reading or catching up on my correspondence , or chatting to friends and acquaintances , as the whim took me . |
| 2 | He would wait for an hour or so , reading a newspaper or catching up on paperwork , then he would go to the McCausland counter and hire a car . |
| 3 | As Bourn did not boast an anemometer we had to quickly learn wind speed by other means , such as how much or how little the trees were bending in the wind and whether the distant windsock was at full stretch or hanging limply from its staff . |
| 4 | They also have not yet learned to use their eyes together ( called binocular vision ) , so they may be seeing double or seeing only through one eye . |
| 5 | Not all alternatives are looked at , rather those most familiar to decision-makers or deviating least from existing practice are examined first , in order to cut down the information and transition costs associated with more radical changes . |
| 6 | If you work out how much you would have spent in the bar , clubbing or eating out over the weekend and subtract it from the cost of the trip it all seems cheaper than ever . |
| 7 | I just do n't want to be the kind of person who suddenly disappears and , in ten years , people say ‘ Hey , I wonder what happened to that guy ? ’ … when I 'm living in misery on a council estate or eating out of rubbish bins . ’ |
| 8 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 9 | A disobedience means a refusal , run-out or circling immediately in front of the obstacle . |
| 10 | ‘ So there was no need to have anything highly scented or smelling strongly on the table , ’ said Henry at once . |
| 11 | After lifting from a chair or helping on to pan , give resident maximum privacy . |
| 12 | Occasionally , hormonal disturbance , particularly of the thyroid gland , may lead to a slowing down or speeding up of the metabolic rate . |
| 13 | Sport offers spontaneity which , combined with ever more sophisticated technology , allows a viewer to watch a game from many different angles , moving in for a close-up on the agonized or exultant face of the athlete , or panning back for a shot of the pitch , track , or the seashore during an Open golf championship . |
| 14 | Several more items come tumbling or fluttering out over me … |
| 15 | Hastening importantly past are certain to be scores of the varnished wooden launches that are the cabs of Venice , their occupants talking hard inside if they are Venetians , or reclining ecstatically in the open sterns if visitors . |
| 16 | A third of the recent records relate to birds found dead or dying inland after severe gales . |
| 17 | A number of young men mentioned going off on their bikes to get away from it all , and amongst older adolescents driving around or driving out of town and parking to view the scenery were popular ‘ escape ’ mechanisms . |
| 18 | The modern habit of Oxford dons ' merely coming into their colleges to teach , and perhaps lunch , before cycling or driving home to their wives and children had not caught on . |
| 19 | Since kitchens tend to be positioned at the back of the house , they are often in an ideal situation for extending into the back garden , or knocking through into a corridor or back room to create a more useful space . |
| 20 | She would joke about the young ‘ uns with fat bums , riding around in cars and we would marvel at the so-called disabled people dismounting briskly from buses or climbing energetically from orange-badged cars . |
| 21 | Vague objectives might include maintaining a market share or keeping up with technology or offering good value to the customer . |
| 22 | Which do you care about more — keeping in with your friends or keeping in with Jesus ? |
| 23 | Or walking around with their clo without their clothes on or putting toast in the kettle . |
| 24 | It was pointed out in Dann v Hamilton that the defence could apply in cases where : " the drunkenness of the driver at the material time is so extreme and so glaring that to accept a lift from him is like engaging in an intrinsically and obviously dangerous occupation , intermeddling with an unexploded bomb or walking along on the edge of an unfenced cliff " . |
| 25 | A few people were about , returning from church or walking home with a newspaper or a neatly wrapped pastry . |
| 26 | Proceedings for the dissolution or winding up of a partnership shall be commenced in the court for the district in which the partnership business was or is carried on ( Ord 4 , r 5 ) . |
| 27 | A future investment activity not specifically relevant to the current context is the establishment , operation or winding up of collective investment schemes . |
| 28 | Whether they are jamming the bustling streets of Kowloon , elbowing their way on to ancient trams or leaping about on the terraces at the races , Hong Kong people are enthusiasts . |
| 29 | This section covers additional accommodation and travel expenses incurred in reaching the overseas destination or returning home as a result of the failure of public transport services in getting the insured to his departure port or airport by the time stated in the itinerary . |
| 30 | I hope you are well & looking forward to the sunshine . |