Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It may be that those involved in the sale of gilt options did not realise that they actually increased the risk to which the council was exposed rather than reducing it . ’ |
| 2 | In the case of South Africa , this kind of self-esteem has to be sought in deliberately resisting the implications of what is taught rather than accepting them . |
| 3 | ‘ Decisions are best when everyone contributes rather than having them imposed from above . |
| 4 | Without such a review there is a serious danger that existing documentation problems may simply be automated along with the data , thus perpetuating rather than resolving them . |
| 5 | I ca n't see the exiles and émigrés banding together and achieving anything of importance but limited media coverage . ’ |
| 6 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 7 | look at and browse and take the information that they want rather than putting what sounds to me a lot of work on some |
| 8 | Gradually , by walking slowly and shielding her from the wind as much as possible with my body , I cut the wings-open time to a minimum . |
| 9 | He adds : ‘ People who get carried away when describing their wares can end up in the small claims court . ’ |
| 10 | Mark Appleson trained yesterday but following his back spasm last weekend , took no contact and was only able to run in straight lines . |
| 11 | This time Midnight moved aside and grasping him round the back of the neck as he passed , flung him headlong into the gathering crowd . |
| 12 | The horse was made to foil her every move , leaping forward as she moved quickly and turning her away . |
| 13 | She pushed it closer , laughing again and lowering her head as though shy , " Here , smell , if you can stand it . " |
| 14 | Some shepherds who observed one regularly using a boat to cross a river , and removed the boat , reduced the nightmare to wailing pitifully and threatening them , demanding the return of the boat . |
| 15 | Take special care with long quoted passages ( more than a couple of sentences or more than a few lines of a poem ) , as a lengthy quotation which is not then followed by detailed analysis and discussion is probably being used ( illegitimately ) as a way of replacing rather than supporting your argument ; you should guide your readers through the significance of what you have selected for their attention . |
| 16 | Other examples in the Renaissance include the malcontent who haunts the very power structure which has alienated him , seeking reinscription within it but at the same time demystifying it , operating within and subverting it at the same time ; the revengers whose actions constitute an even more violent bid for reinscription within the very society which has alienated and dispossessed them ; the assertive women , the ‘ women on top ’ described by Natalie Zemon Davis who simultaneously appropriate , exploit , and undermine masculine discourse . |
| 17 | The young Eric was looking away and picking his nose , looking bored . |
| 18 | Beyond him rode the Lombard brothers grinning broadly and enjoying themselves . |
| 19 | And there are people living longer and needing them . |
| 20 | ‘ The assurances are OK and we have no intention of either looking elsewhere or altering our original itinerary , ’ Smith said . |
| 21 | She waited for Jean , his girlfriend , to go to the Ladies , and then pounced , flirting madly and manoeuvring him into bartering with her that he would buy two whole strips if she would have a dance with him . |
| 22 | And then me picking up the keys living here and taking it down the road ! |
| 23 | I 'm here to do a job of work and if dressing conservatively and ignoring his attempts at seductive banter are what it takes to remind him of the fact , so be it . ’ |
| 24 | The Labour party is telling those investors that they are not welcome here and encouraging them to go elsewhere . |
| 25 | She was standing by Shelley , listening intently but saying nothing . |
| 26 | When he reached the fighting , he charged in amongst the Dragoons , shouting loudly and urging his companions to follow him . |
| 27 | He has not given up hope that he can recover in time , saying : ‘ I 've not ruled myself out of it yet I 'm just looking forward and hoping I can be out there . ’ |
| 28 | What I think my colleague is saying is that when the actuary is assessing the commitments of the funds , he is looking at the anticipated increased earnings until the person retires and I think when the calculation is made for somebody who is er a deferred pensioner of leaving er a pension fund to take his money elsewhere a similar calculation or the same calculation should be used , the one that the actuary last used in , in looking forward and saying what the commitments are . |
| 29 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 30 | Sh they 're like all clubbing together and giving her some money to go in with cos she 's got to have some money to go in with . |