Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leon Kennedy passed a hand across his face , drawing off expression and swallowing . |
| 2 | At one end of the heavier door , now held up on trestles , Donald had hefted a stone jar of whisky into position and Donald McLaggan was drawing off cupsful and handing them out . |
| 3 | Farrell saw the smashed bone sticking through skin and material . |
| 4 | More than a museum devoted to one artist 's work ( like the Museum Picasso , or the Fundació Joan Miró ) , it will be competing for income and audiences with an increasing number of new museums in Barcelona : the stylish Centre d'Art Santa Mònica which cuts a dash on the tourist drag of the Ramblas ; a museum of contemporary art being designed by Richard Meier , to be squeezed into the dense Barri Gotic , as well as the National Museum of Catalan Art up on Montjuic , remodelled by Gae Aulenti , and currently under construction . |
| 5 | By the early-Eighties though , Adidas and Umbro were competing for business and in the process developing ever more complex designs . |
| 6 | The words of the songs , even given the fact that much is lost in translation , are disappointing ; such is the passion and power of the voices that you feel they must be singing about life and death matters . |
| 7 | An alternative way is to undertake a similar exercise allowing for sex and marital status as well as age . |
| 8 | The Larrikins , who can be traced back to 1870 in Australia , were also organised into local gangs or ‘ pushes ’ , and even allowing for exaggeration and over-involvement ( we need not readily accept , for example , that they gorged themselves on raw meat or rigged elections by terrorising voters , as was sometimes alleged ) their behaviour was unbeatably appalling . |
| 9 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 10 | ( The average amount which people would actually have to pay after allowing for relief and benefits would fall to under £175 in Great Britain as a whole . ) |
| 11 | Allowing for TV and video income , it 's probably into profit by now . |
| 12 | Allowing for commission and certain expenses , the sales in Italy will modestly enrich us . |
| 13 | But though people listen enthusiastically to Mister C slagging off hardcore and singing the praises of progressive house , you get the feeling things are just a bit different here . |
| 14 | Then she heard all of them , crashing through brush and low branches as they followed her towards the road . |
| 15 | Drexel successfully pioneered a mezzanine layer of financing between equity and bank debt for medium-sized American companies . |
| 16 | I did his tape copy on the machine I was using for echo and it was switched to vari-speed , so the copy was played at almost half the speed and when he got it home and wanted to play it to his friends , it sounded rather strange . |
| 17 | That 's why she is alone , sweetly singing between waking and sleeping . |
| 18 | Marie Timoney has joined the council which recommends improvements to the health board in catering for health and social care . |
| 19 | Meanwhile an ebullient three-year-old bounced over the people and the furniture , clamouring for conversation and met with exhausted expletives , " Shut up … get … off do n't … " |
| 20 | The press was clamouring for blood and Lord Harris told Robertson that he would have to tender his resignation to the academic advisory council . |
| 21 | They tell y' stories about the past , y' know , the war , or when they were fightin' for food an' clothin' an houses . |
| 22 | WADING THROUGH mud or swimming through a cold ravine with just a few oatcakes and nuts to keep you going is not very one 's cup of tea , but for six Risley lads it was fun . |
| 23 | Grazing by different animals , mowing for hay or silage , treading by stock and machinery each favours some plants at the expense of others . |
| 24 | Indeed , with embryonic OLTP products like Unix System Labs 's Tuxedo , Transarc Corp 's Encina and now IBM 's CICS/6000 already struggling for mind and market share , X/Open will be under pressure to avoid the problems that it faced — and to some extent still does — over the lack of a standard for graphical user interfaces , GUIs . |
| 25 | They include wet and/or slippery floors ; trolleys and furniture on wheels which may move if brakes are not applied ; equipment blocking corridors and gangways , and wires left hanging between furniture or across floors . |
| 26 | She was singing to her hoarsely , struggling through exhaustion and grief to find breath . |
| 27 | But Ruth sensed he wanted to speak , and was struggling through pain and craziness to do so . |
| 28 | Special cages have been developed for wild mice to reduce the need for handling during cleaning but it is possible to keep them in standard mouse cages . |
| 29 | Other causes may be mental frailty and diarrhoea caused by food poisoning , as old people are more susceptible to food poisoning through salmonella and listeria organisms . |
| 30 | The Moslems , supporters of the Democratic Action Party ( based in Bosnia-Hercegovina ) , were protesting at what they claimed to be repression of the rights of Moslems in the Sanjak and Serbian efforts to drive them out ( Sanjak Moslem militants had been agitating for autonomy and closer links with Bosnia-Hercegovina , where Moslems were the largest national group ) . |