Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sometimes think now , Oh gawd , I must have really looked like a schlepp when I used to turn up at Motown or somewhere taking a punk rocky attitude with me . |
| 2 | And we were , how we were gon na combat it , and in the very next room were or rather holding a conference on how to do us in . |
| 3 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 4 | sometimes a metalpoint would have a point at either end of the stylus , for sake of balance , or perhaps containing a different type of metalpoint . |
| 5 | More often the impact of dogmatically held relativism on other people is to cause them to waver , feel uncertain and drift into what they feel they can be sure about — mostly in Western society a materialist attitude to life , or perhaps pursuing a lifestance which thinks it has avoided value judgements . |
| 6 | They can literally walk in the footsteps of people in the past , walking a section of Roman road or an old packhorse track , or following the route of an abandoned railway , or perhaps storming a hill-fort or castle . |
| 7 | Voluntary to my mind suggests that the payer being aware of all relevant circumstances including the true state of the law or perhaps having a doubt but not caring which way that doubt is resolved consciously makes a decision to pay . |
| 8 | Not that that prevented Cale from screaming at a potted plant sitting on his piano , or suddenly demolishing a table beside his stool with an axe in mid-performance . |
| 9 | Can you take easy exercise — walking or gently cycling a few miles , running up the stairs , carrying a heavy suitcase a distance — without becoming puffed or stiff ? |
| 10 | A dancer coming forwards can convey a variety of meaning : giving a greeting ; asking a question , even if it is only an inquisitive movement of the head ; saying Yes , or agreeing with a nod or with a particular wave of the hand ; giving something with arms circling outwards , e.g. Natalia and the Tutor when they open their arms to each other ; or merely proffering a hand at the beginning of a dance , e.g. Paris offering his hand to Juliet . |
| 11 | When he commits himself to an assignment — be it a poem , a book , a song , or merely aiding a fellow-scribbler 's itch , he does it with gusto — con brio , as he might annotate one of his scores . |
| 12 | It was never clear whether they were carrying out a routine sample spot check on the facilities or merely seeking a quick meal before a meeting . |
| 13 | [ The plaintiffs ] had no intention of creating any charge over book debts or merely making a series of loans . |
| 14 | Also , perhaps , that sometimes at night , she finds her crying for the starving of Africa or unable to sleep with the terror of the possibility of nuclear war or desperately seeking a denial of the reality of the horror of the Holocaust . |
| 15 | This may simply be a matter of explaining once again the implications of the diseases in terms of any personal relationships , giving advice about contraceptive clinics , or just lending a sympathetic ear while the patient unburdens his or her problems . |
| 16 | My physical exercise makes me feel so good inside — whether I 'm on my stairmaster , whether I 'm out running , dancing to music like a crazy person , riding up hills on my bicycle or just taking a brisk walk . |
| 17 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 18 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 19 | Of course , it 's Bonfire Night , so if you 're off to a display or just having a few sparklers at home , have a great evening . |
| 20 | Treat yourself to a special evening of entertainment — whether it be hiring a video you 've been meaning to watch , going to the cinema or theatre , or just visiting a friend . |
| 21 | and hardware.intensive interfaces ( or possibly attempting a compromise between the extremes depicted in Figs. 8.1 and 8.2 ) , the system designer has to consider several aspects of microprocessor and motor performance . |
| 22 | Up to £600 for alternative travel expenses ( including car hire ) and up to £400 for emergency hotel and food expenses if your vehicle is off the road for eight hours or more following a breakdown , accident , fire or theft . |
| 23 | In Savage ( 1990 ) 91 Cr App R 317 , the same court ( but a different division ) on the same day said that intentionally or recklessly causing a battery was sufficient , as long as actual bodily harm occurred . |
| 24 | The original duty owed was the basic one of not intentionally or recklessly injuring a trespasser known to be present ( Addie v Dumbreck Collieries [ 1929 ] AC 358 ) . |
| 25 | The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 26 | ‘ Declaration granted that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged , the Director of the Serious Fraud Office was required to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 27 | The Mental Health Act 1983 contains a somewhat similar offence of ill-treating or wilfully neglecting a patient in a mental hospital , which has a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 28 | Accordingly workers striking on an economic upswing often found employers more ready to negotiate than to prosecute , although if masters decided to combine to take on the union by resisting a wage demand or even enforcing a cut and bound themselves not to employ each other 's dismissed workmen , the law might be a more ready resort . |
| 29 | For example , a typical lineage may result in cell type A giving two cell types B and C , and only C continues to divide to give types D and E. Mutants can result in the substitution of type Z for B ; or make the lineage symmetrical — B now giving D and E ; or even generating a stem cell line with B being replaced by A which repeats the pattern of cell divisions and cell differentiation . |
| 30 | She knew that he had two grown-up daughters of his own and would scarcely have approved of aiding and abetting or even allowing a girl of Liza 's age to be left in any compromising situation with a young married man . |