Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though , come to think of it , anyone who goes rushing around with a child or , worse , a straw bale on their shoulders must be a few bricks short of a stable . |
| 2 | chromosomes , B someone who pees standing up |
| 3 | The one with X , Y chromosome , someone who pees standing up , someone who has testicles ? |
| 4 | Someone who pees standing up ? |
| 5 | Environmentalists also fear that the National Institute of Forestry and Natural Resources ( INFEAN ) is controlled by those who favour opening up all of Ecuador 's national parks to organised mining . |
| 6 | I am a person who loves going out |
| 7 | The last child — and the oldest — was always Flora Bouverie , who came trailing down the bus steps burdened with splitting carrier bags and fragile , half-made artefacts , peering about her blindly for her mother . |
| 8 | The day when the search guards were given orders to act roughly , and the little R.A.S.C. captain who came running out of the block with his mouth still bleeding from a blow with a rifle butt . |
| 9 | He signalled the waiter , who came bustling up to clear the table for the next course . |
| 10 | Joined by unemployed youths , their behaviour was labelled as ‘ riotous ’ by the local authorities who forbade putting up posters and other activities liable to ‘ disturb public order ’ . |
| 11 | Now , with its near neighbour the yacht club , it caters for nautical types of the amateur sort who enjoy messing about in boats . |
| 12 | Anyone who fancies taking up the challenge should contact Jim McCartney at Precision Studios . |
| 13 | There must still be some people alive who recall going on to a Sunday School outing from Leicester to Foxton ; parties would travel to Market Harborough by train and either by boat or cart to Foxton . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most notorious was a forger ; Coiner Varley who escaped sliding down a rubbish tip which the market traders had pushed up against the wall of the gaol . |
| 15 | The pluses are that Mr Fry 's antiques-packed rooms give off a suitably mouldering , claustrophobic air , Staunton is very good as an over-protective mother who keeps haring off to ring the babysitter , all concerned do seem to know each other very well and it 's all very pleasant , untaxing and time passes jauntily enough . |
| 16 | Just the thing for a twitching little nervous wreck who keeps passing out on her dinner dates . |
| 17 | As the day wears on they begin to mock each other , particularly Neil Strachan , the melancholy Presbyterian geologist , who keeps ruling out half their best ideas as bloody tectonic impossibilities , and who ca n't do a convincing German accent for the life of him . |
| 18 | In better days , however , it merely served to guarantee the privacy of the sovereigns and as a diversion for the Prince Imperial who enjoyed running up and down it when he came to play with his parents . |
| 19 | It seemed he was deliberately galloping very close past her to upset her chestnut mare , who kept taking off into the pampas . |
| 20 | It warned that : ‘ One wallow does n't make a summer ’ , a reference to the misleading optimism being gleaned by those who kept harking back to Ireland 's great performance in the World Cup . |
| 21 | They were at a loss to know what to do with this sullen rebel who kept bursting out against them so unjustly . |
| 22 | No problem to Lucy , who kept smiling through , witty and charming , zipping through three courses of creative cuisine into a smart frock and an atomised squirt of Coty L'Amant in the time it took Martin and ‘ the gang ’ to get home . |
| 23 | Did you see the one who kept running up and down in the weird hat ? |
| 24 | Because you were the one who kept going on about the need to keep it secret . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you remember that old lady who kept coming in for Roald Dahl , saying he was a woman ? ’ sobbed Denise . |
| 26 | The Korn/Ferry name is most widely known and publicly quoted of all search firms — Lester Korn is seen as the man who brought headhunting out into the open — and thus the firm can guarantee almost instant interest from potential candidates . |
| 27 | ‘ We have to make sure that justice is done , that those who are guilty will be meted out the full penalty , ’ she told reporters after attending a funeral service for a pilot who died wiping out the rebels ' air support in last week 's attempt to overthrow her . |
| 28 | In The Comedians , when the once-famous comic tries to explain the healing power of humour , he has to work against his students , who keep falling back into racist , sexist jokes , jokes about cripples , jokes about anyone who is different . |
| 29 | This is why parents who keep rushing in , trying to alleviate their teenager 's suffering , can actually set him back in his attempts to recover . |
| 30 | who liked gazing out over miles of history , |