Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [adv prt] a " in BNC.

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1 Whether or not you will be asked to pay for your course remains at the discretion of course organisers and managers , therefore , and I am unable to give any hard and fast guidance here , other than to say that they will have to be kept at a reasonable level to be affordable , particularly by those who have been unemployed or bringing up a family .
2 Various factors could prevent the tenant from commencing to trade within a specified period and where a tenant has fitted out the premises and is paying a full rent ( or using up a rent free period ) the tenant would hopefully only delay opening for trade for a good reason .
3 Whether you 're eating out or buying a take-away , heating frozen meals from the supermarket or knocking up a fresh pasta and salad in the apartment , quality and variety are excellent .
4 ‘ Try , Constance ! ’ he would exhort , when she faltered before jumping a stream or climbing over a hedge .
5 People who do n't know anything about it might assume that it simply involves standing in front of a camera or walking down a catwalk .
6 Establishing , operating or winding up a collective investment scheme , including acting as trustee of an authorised unit trust scheme .
7 ‘ It has proved reliable , and the fact that it is four-wheel drive is very handy if you 're coping with a greasy slipway or launching off a beach , ’ says Peaks .
8 Fundamentally , the survey method finds out what people will say when they are being interviewed , or filling in a questionnaire .
9 It may be worth mentioning that some candidates achieve Grade " A " without mentioning any historian or writing down a single quotation . "
10 I assumed the Maggot was delivering or picking up a customer , but it was none of my business , so I stripped down to my shorts and began work as Thessy , his brother Philemon and their father took a battered wooden skiff across the lagoon .
11 People doing market research , or marking off a check list will then enter data by ticking boxes .
12 Now I never if I was going through a train or going down a platform , and there were two or three carriage women carriage cleaners you know , I would n't speak to them about their work .
13 It could be a flatter of setting up a new plant , opening a new market , launching a new product or turning around a failing company that has been acquired .
14 Can a chimp perceive a movie as representing a second individual trying to solve a problem , like reaching bananas or switching on a heater ?
15 It is not so obviously true where the intervention takes the form essentially of a decision to initiate a single direct action such as closing a particular valve or starting up a stand-by pump .
16 The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one .
17 The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one .
18 Is it worth insuring your computer or taking out a separate contract with a third-party maintenance company ?
19 She 's half-turned away , hanging up or taking down a dress from a hook .
20 The Commission provides guidance on certain of the services or costs they wish reviewed ; for example , in introducing a higher proportion of civilians into the police force or boarding out a higher proportion of children in care .
21 Fancy setting up a credit union or finding out a bit more about how one works ?
22 This was no great problem for Mr Berge ; being cocky and confident comes naturally to him whether he is presiding over his other little empire , the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house , or standing over a gaping hole in credibility .
23 Of course , we may forget old lessons and we certainly need to keep in practice to maintain our performance levels in certain types of skill ( especially psycho-motor skills — like playing a musical instrument or carrying out a laboratory procedure ) .
24 Adding insulation to the inner face of exterior walls involves either fixing thermal board ( plasterboard with a rigid foam backing and a built-in vapour barrier ) directly to the wall surfaces with a panel adhesive , or putting up a framework of battens with blanket insulation between them , and adding a layer of vapour-check plasterboard on top .
25 or shinning down a drainpipe at midnight
26 He was either concerned for the lad or thinking up a scheme of his own .
27 Then taking in a lodger or renting out a room may be the answer .
28 Being able to stay in your own home or setting up a home of your own is something that most people value greatly .
29 If instead of paid work , you are thinking of becoming self-employed or setting up a business , you will not only have the start-up costs but , as you are probably well aware , very few new enterprises make a profit during the first two or three years .
30 We 've started it in our studio , bringing their people into the city or setting up a kind of branch over there where people can work together and so you do n't get the political problems of ownerships , of people saying well that 's your idea , you know , it 's the old thing of as soon as the client thinks that it 's his idea then he wants it , and it 's very hard .
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