Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gyggle was n't to be put off by this ; instead of retreating or retrenching he suggested even more radical measures . |
| 2 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
| 3 | This means that the ‘ same ’ cell can be studied in preparation after preparation , its connections and the effects of stimulating or excising it followed in detail — something that is quite impossible in any of the organisms yet discussed in this chapter ( Figure 7.5 ) . |
| 4 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 5 | The shots , which were widely reprinted in the Allied press , showed a relaxed General listening to his wife play the piano or watching her knit . |
| 6 | Whether he was still staring out of the window at the storm or watching them made no difference . |
| 7 | In the later part of the decade , its theories and campaigns seemed to many to be the only active and innovative part of the western feminist movement , and affirming or rejecting it occupied an enormous proportion of feminist writing and talk . |
| 8 | He had pulled her down with him into the whirlpool of love , and now that she was submerged and drowning he had left her , escaping through the cloaking mist that hung over the water . |
| 9 | In order to talk about something that did not have to do with fondling and stroking she spoke of the garments . |
| 10 | He wrote again , a careful , stilted letter , expressing gratitude for the help he had received and suggesting they shook hands and called it a day . |
| 11 | In twenty minutes of sublime running and handling they dropped the proverbial ‘ bar of soap ’ just once . |
| 12 | It 's bad enough looking through the new sections and the main articles and seeing nothing mentioned less than E4 , 6b . |
| 13 | Aunt Nessy had been upstairs , but hearing voices she came down , and seeing me ran towards me , as lightly and softly as a little bouncing ball , her eyes full of love and welcome . |
| 14 | Her mummy , drawn by the noise , ran out of the tent , and seeing what had happened put her arms round her to comfort her and took her back into the tent . |
| 15 | ‘ But I am very disappointed as I was looking forward to going to the West Indies and seeing what promised to be a great series . ’ |
| 16 | The judge knew this man of old : he was the pit-bull of the legal profession , attacking any weak spots with devastating precision , and seeing him ended the Judge 's faint glimmer of hope that he might just get home in time for the football . |
| 17 | I saw her twice between that Friday in Bamford and seeing her silhouetted on the blind on Christmas Day . ’ |
| 18 | He had forgotten all about his mother 's present and seeing it made him think even more of home . |
| 19 | I consciously look with the object of transcending the commonplace and seeing it transformed . |
| 20 | Just the actual joy of starting and , and seeing it transformed while |
| 21 | ‘ And they see us — and seeing us garbed thus , they grow ever more surly , refusing now to carry out all but the most basic tasks . |
| 22 | It 's a well set out machine and using it became second nature after just a couple of hours . |
| 23 | Most of the Committee were at the prize-giving and the cheese and winetasting which followed . |
| 24 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 25 | Using worship , dance , drama , testimony and preaching we began to communicate the truth of Jesus to the Hungarians . |
| 26 | In bed , his mind kept turning in an endless loop , living and reliving what had happened . |
| 27 | I noted the small bunches of flowers laid in the Place de la Concorde in memory of Resistance fighters , and thought how especially fragile and touching they seemed in the immensity of that noble square . |
| 28 | Heaving and struggling I managed to close the door , but it kept opening again , weakened by its storm-fractured clasp . |
| 29 | It ai n't fair , bein' kind to me and gettin' me obligated . |
| 30 | Agriculture was very important to the Romans in Britain , because without the food and clothing it provided , they could not survive . |