Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is necessary , therefore , to make as attractive as possible the opportunities and challenge of singing or playing in church . |
| 2 | Exploring it means either walking or travelling by mokoro , a shallow punt in which you are poled along reedy channels and across carpets of water-lilies by tireless guides . |
| 3 | Scathach 's horse panicked and he shouted at the creature , which stamped in the water , twisting and tugging with discomfort . |
| 4 | Paul Traynor is a freelance journalist who has been walking and backpacking at home and abroad for over 25 years |
| 5 | Contrast the English praise of a widow at a funeral , ‘ she held up well ’ , with the ritualised outpouring of Iranian grief , complete with howling , wailing and tearing of hair — ‘ What am I going to answer the children when you ask me where is their father ? |
| 6 | Now high summer was browning and mellowing into autumn . |
| 7 | Children raised in a middle-class family in which the parents and grandparents were university-educated are likely to be brought up in an environment in which reading and learning are stressed and going to university is encouraged . |
| 8 | And it was n't self-pity that kept her tossing and turning till dawn … |
| 9 | The conclusion kept her tossing and turning in despair for hours , the sound of traffic in the High Street a poor substitute for the lulling boom of the sea round Gullholm . |
| 10 | She fell back and pulled the blanket over her face , cackling and wheezing with delight . |
| 11 | All three aunts are fast asleep , snoring and dreaming in unison . |
| 12 | From about 1760 he was increasingly occupied in surveying and reporting on river and canal works , including those of the rivers Lea , Chelmer , Thames , Medway , and the Stour in Kent ; the drainage of the Ancholme level and the north level of the Fens ; the Forth and Clyde canal , and the Stroudwater canal . |
| 13 | Monday 's display ran like clockwork , opening and closing of course with Sally B , in between which a veritable pageant of flight took place , ranging from the Barnstorming Days with the Crunchie Stearman trio , Dragon Rapide G–AKIF and the Tiger Moth Diamond Nine team ( the latter operating eight Tigers and a Hornet Moth ) , Biplane Warplanes involved the Shuttleworth Collection 's Hawker Hind and Gloster Gladiator ( making first appearance at GWAD ) and recently — revitalised Swordfish LS326 of the Navy 's Historic Flight . |
| 14 | They must have been singing for , though Sharpe could hear nothing , he could see their mouths opening and closing in unison . |
| 15 | The tunnel curved left and right , round corners , climbing and plunging without logic or warning , while the ceiling rose and , alarmingly , fell . |
| 16 | It strikes me that Glamorgan have left themselves with another internal problem they could have done without now they are rebuilding and looking for stability after those years of committee trauma and musical chairs among the skippers . |
| 17 | It is not the book that you stay up huffing and mewing with laughter over until the middle of the night — that is either Dervla Murphy 's Muddling Through in Madagascar ( Arrow Books , 1990 ) or Sir David Attenborough 's original Zoo Quest to Madagascar , which richly deserves reprinting . |
| 18 | This prevents the cork drying up , shrinking and letting in air thus oxidising the wine . |
| 19 | You 'll practise all the skills needed for anchoring and mooring under engine in a small cruiser . |
| 20 | That 's what makes me sick : you laughing and chatting with Stok while our boy was sitting there petrified . ’ |
| 21 | Then Sally 's lovely nine puppies — I remember you waylaying an army captain to let Sally mate with his dog , and he ringing us up laughing and saying of course he could , and you three making a lovely bridal room for them in Pop 's study ! |
| 22 | Next moment a huge bus with Jumbo El Rapido on the side tore past overtaking and cutting in front . |
| 23 | And apart from certain specialised domains ( the lexicon of skateboarding or knitting for example ) you will also find few words whose source is a text written by somebody working class , or black , or for that matter female . |
| 24 | If your child did start vomiting or trembling or gasping for breath , would you suspect that they had eaten delphinium seeds unless they were still holding the packet ? |
| 25 | This leads to problems when I try to conceive of my own knowing , believing or thinking in behaviourist terms . |
| 26 | Miles of poverty with modern adobe dwellings either being built or falling into ruin . |
| 27 | establishing , operating or acting as trustee of an authorised unit trust scheme or a recognised collective investment scheme . |
| 28 | So is not smoking or drinking at night . |
| 29 | Thus s61 of the Law of Property Act 1925 provides that in all … contracts … made or coming into operation after the commencement of this Act , unless the context otherwise requires — ( a ) " Month " means calendar month ; ( b ) " Person " includes a corporation ; ( c ) The singular includes the plural and vice versa ; ( d ) The masculine includes the feminine and vice versa . |
| 30 | initiate the required form ( see chapter 1102.3 ) when approving , exempting or advising on investment advertisements |