Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Icke , whose only previous North-East connection was in forecasting that Teesside later amended to Tayside would be under water by Christmas , has been signed as a goalie by Jewson Wessex League club Ryde Sports . |
| 2 | There would be times for tenderness , and one such time came later , in the aftermath of passion enriched by the knowledge of love , a bonus as they lay touching each other languidly and lovingly , luxuriating in the freedom of being able to express their feelings in this alternative way , confidently but without urgency . |
| 3 | A set of teeth like pincers , biting upon one another , i.e. both rows of the incisors touching each other directly , is still admissible . |
| 4 | She and James were not in the habit of phoning each other regularly . |
| 5 | Hayek argues that ‘ an order of the complexity of modern society can be designed neither as a whole , nor by shaping each part separately without regard to the rest , but only by consistently adhering to certain principles throughout a process of evolution ’ . |
| 6 | ( In the following cases , the corresponding phrase using prenominal position only would be fully acceptable ) : ( 50 ) the handbook useful is in your out-tray a story interesting would be hard to find ( 51 ) the only handbook useful is in your out-tray a story less interesting would be hard to find Even here , the distinction between qualification and assignment may have a part to play in the explanation . |
| 7 | 360 weightlifters from all over world are in Oxford proving that life really can begin at 40 . |
| 8 | And there had been a few lines from Ellen , proving that Oreste so far from being carried to heaven by an angel was firmly rooted in East Retford and had grown another two inches . |
| 9 | Healing rates in ex-smokers who stopped smoking at least one month before the start of treatment , however , are similar to those in smokers , suggesting that smoking also has an indirect effect , associated perhaps with specific behaviour or personality characteristics . |
| 10 | The British monarchy , and the survival of aristocratic titles dating back to the Norman conquest lend a spurious sense of continuity to English history ( if not to that of the other countries in the UK ) , suggesting that feudalism imperceptibly evolved into modern capitalist democracy . |
| 11 | In 1626 , James Reid of Edinburgh University considered the possibility of the earth 's axial rotation , suggesting that Scripture sometimes described phenomena as they appeared to the senses , rather than as they really were . |
| 12 | I 'm happy I have Adrien as a team-mate this season , we get on very well together and are helping each other as much as possible . ’ |
| 13 | How often do you get a 43-year-old singing that way now ? |
| 14 | If I ca n't get to the person they want I try and say to them , ‘ Look , can you please ring back ’ , because if they left a message , that message would have been lying on my desk until the next morning , until I get round to actually phoning that person internally , saying this person rang . |
| 15 | Acknowledging the extent of social need in the elderly does not mean accepting that dependency irreversibly deepens with age , from mild to intense . |
| 16 | Those grant-maintained schools are using that money effectively for the benefit of the school and , more importantly , of improving education for the pupils attending those schools . |
| 17 | What yo you do is using that bracket there |
| 18 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 19 | This trait was noted by fellow politicians such as Enoch Powell : ‘ [ Ted ] believes there is an answer to all problems which can be worked out by proper bureaucratic means — I 'm not using that word abusively for once — by the proper approach . |
| 20 | I believe you 'll be using that gun sooner than you think . ’ |
| 21 | He called for tanker masters to be ordered to stop using that signal routinely . |
| 22 | He and Gina went on living together and nagging each other quietly . |
| 23 | Nor are the prospects , even for Galway , as bad as they appear at the moment : workers reportedly wept openly in the Digital canteen when told their jobs were being phased out over the next 12 months , but the fear that most of the subcontractors that served DEC will have to close as well is not likely to be realised : where a company has a good relationship with a subcontractor , there are good reasons for maintaining that relationship even after a plant closes , and work should start flowing across the Irish Sea all the way to Galway from Scotland . |
| 24 | ‘ It is an open secret that they were seeing each other regularly until all hell broke loose back in the summer , ’ said a source close to Camilla last night . |
| 25 | She found him nice and easy to talk to , and they soon started seeing each other regularly . |
| 26 | Now that my divorce has come through we thought it was time to tell people that we were getting married and start seeing each other openly . |
| 27 | She and Jeremy had been seeing each other fairly regularly , but he was an investment banker and they were both so hectically involved in their jobs that they 'd opted for casual , no-strings dating almost by mutual consent . |
| 28 | If they had not been in the habit of seeing each other so often , at least once a week and sometimes more , talking on the phone every day , that appalling suggestion might have driven a bolt through their friendship , eventually destroying it . |
| 29 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
| 30 | It is not acceptable in our society to start smelling each other closely or to feel each other , except in approved salutations . |