Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any system which is exhaustively described by Figure 9 would be incapable of repeating nonsense words or reading them aloud or writing them to dictation . |
| 2 | Instead of facing some fierce wild animal alone and killing it armed only with courage and a spear , he now channels his competitive instinct into his job , or sport . ’ |
| 3 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
| 4 | We need to admit that for many older churches it takes much longer to change and also that a more traditional style can be helpful to many in finding Christ personally and following him radically . |
| 5 | He had turned to look at her , slipping off his coat as he did so and tossing it carelessly over the back of one of the armchairs . |
| 6 | ‘ We found a few , ’ he told her , answering her question about the mussels , pulling off his jacket as he did so and draping it carelessly over the back of the chair . |
| 7 | Over the years , the departments have moved closer together and combining them will also lead to efficiency savings for the authority . |
| 8 | He had what seemed to me a great genius for — how can I put it ? — drawing the orchestra together and controlling it as a single expressive instrument . |
| 9 | and then just joined those that were easy to join together and building it up that way , but he 's doing curls on the bottom of G's and |
| 10 | What he had n't counted on was the tunnel effect of putting five together and pointing them into a wind that came more or less straight from the Urals after turning left over Norway . |
| 11 | If a break does occur the wire tends to coil up , and it is easy to make the mistake of just tying the broken ends together and towing it straight back to the launch point for the next launch . |
| 12 | Only hours before she had been trying to pull herself together and thinking she might be winning ; now the future was an aching black void . |
| 13 | Lucinda jumped to her feet , collecting cups , plates and cutlery together and placing them on the tray . |
| 14 | He shuffled papers , bringing them together and placing them to one side , face downwards . |
| 15 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 16 | And you can then also couple between keyboards so that if you want to you can play the sounds from this keyboard on the lower one by coupling the two together and making them work as a pair , but that removes the inde independency of being able to set one against the other . |
| 17 | erm as regards correlating things together and bunging them into the same factor analysis model and stuff like that er even if the questions are a bit different I think you can still do that legitimately because it 's still sort of expressing the strength of opinion on some sort of scale erm so I do n't see that that 'll er interfere with the ambitions you 've got as regards the data erm so er |
| 18 | Taking the two dimensions together and applying them , as above , in a four-fold scheme , produces what I have called the ‘ bird-watcher ’ method , the laboratory observation , participant observation and the standardized interview . |
| 19 | Sh they 're like all clubbing together and giving her some money to go in with cos she 's got to have some money to go in with . |
| 20 | For one thing , it would have been warmer , she thought , wriggling her shoulders defensively and wishing she 'd brought a jacket . |
| 21 | ‘ Bringing the poor gel 'ome an' givin' 'er 'is bed . ’ |
| 22 | I remember a horrifying dream I had during one Wimbledon wherein I was sitting on top of a tall step-ladder half-way down the garden in the umpire 's position — not awarding points to the thrusting vegetation below but conducting them with a baton . |
| 23 | Escaping is bad enough but doing it in the middle of the night is inexcusable . |
| 24 | I think from what I 've heard , every shift had its own little methods of trying to turn people away or advising them not to come in . |
| 25 | To Zborowski 's annoyance , Modigliani still clung to his old habits in the cafés , making dozens of sketches and giving most of his work away or bartering it to buy drinks . |
| 26 | All agree that the building they share in Aldershot , an outdated 60s 12-storey tower block , needs major refurbishment — closing it and moving to the Royal Logistic Corps training centre 20 miles away or converting it to an office block and building a new , smaller Army catering school alongside , are not seen as attractive options . |
| 27 | As Secretary , make sure in advance that there will be a quorum present by seeing members of the committee individually and getting them to turn up promptly . |
| 28 | But instead of meeting each problem separately and assessing it for what it is , the anorexic thinks she has a master-plan , designed to solve them all at one stroke . |
| 29 | Well , he 's taking a lot longer and costing us a lot more money in terms of letting us know his view . |
| 30 | And there are people living longer and needing them . |