Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driving Me Crazy mercilessly records the squalls , the vibrant performances and the inertia of the production team , who spend most of their time solemnly discussing what black music means to them and jockeying for pole position . |
| 2 | Driving Me Crazy mercilessly records the squalls , the vibrant performances and the inertia of the production team , who spend most of their time solemnly discussing what black music means to them and jockeying for pole position . |
| 3 | Particularly he spent time directing a group , his twelve disciples , living , eating , travelling with them and teaching about prayer ( Lk. 11. 1–1 3 and 1 8.9.1 4 ) , about worry ( Lk. 1 2.22–31 ) , about watchfulness ( Lk. 12.35–48 ) , about true greatness ( Lk. 9.46–50 ) . |
| 4 | But is it not a fact in the real world that we prepare for war during peacetime by keeping our armed forces equipped and ready , rather than disbanding them and waiting until war breaks out before beginning to re-arm and train new forces ? |
| 5 | Standing stones on their own , in groups , or in circular henge patterns often seem an integral part of the rocky landscape , growing out of the earth itself or lying at ease upon it ; but the work of human hands can be detected in the cup-and-ring decorations on some , the geometrical arrangement of others . |
| 6 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 7 | This entailed either groping her or standing in front of her and dropping his trousers . |
| 8 | Since the only previous time when R had seen F was a casual incident when there was little occasion to remember him and bearing in mind the difficult lighting and other circumstances when the attack occurred the conviction was unsafe or unsatisfactory . |
| 9 | She lay back against the hard sofa , sipping the drink when David brought it to her and swallowing with difficulty . |
| 10 | The sound of someone entering her bedroom , which lay beyond the dressing room , made Sally turn , still holding the dress against her and frowning with annoyance . |
| 11 | She ate as directed by Taggy , and made no fuss when that dame looked after her much as she had herself done for her deceased employer — nursing her and acting as lady 's maid , and combing out her troublesome copper hair , until Theda felt strong enough to perform this office for herself . |
| 12 | Dorothea saw herself , barefooted on the plastic mat , dressing gown wrapped round her and staring into space , towards nothing , half-thinking , unaware . |
| 13 | ‘ He ca n't have been much fun to live with ; his wife would n't necessarily have been heartbroken , ’ Guy commented drily , finally releasing her and going in search of a large box of tissues . |
| 14 | A saving is one way of looking at it or profiting from education is another way , apparently what the Conservatives would wish to do , they wish to make people pay for education and there is no other way of looking at it . |
| 15 | And , surely it 's about erm helping , I do n't know how you go about it but the illegality of it prevents people admitting it and asking for help , and taking erm any advice that people can give about using it safely . |
| 16 | If the primary function of repression is to prevent the return of the repressed , it clearly follows that any theory which describes that repressed material runs the risk of being confused with it and coming under attack just as the original repressed elements would do if they attempted to struggle back into consciousness . |
| 17 | It has to be experienced through people being able to be honest with themselves and reaching towards integrity . |
| 18 | But she was glad of that too , for she might have felt she was honour bound to refuse — she could hardly have consented without shame — but this way , he had given her the most intense pleasure , which crossed her back and forth in waves of shock and fear , redoubling upon themselves and increasing in strength . |