Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He toured Western China and Tibet on his bicycle , paying his way by developing the many photographs he had taken in local universities and sending them back north to paying customers . |
| 2 | He was standing at the door , greeting people as they came in , simpering and giggling and asking them how so-and-so was . |
| 3 | Tariq , to his credit , said we should take out as many pictures as we could , and taking them out cost 70 which at that time was ever such a lot of money . ’ |
| 4 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 5 | ‘ I used to just swot up on learning the key words and churning them out computer fashion , but now I am more interested in what they mean . |
| 6 | This is vintage Saddam : over the past 21 years he has swung between killing Iraqi Kurds and offering them more self-rule than the Kurds in Turkey , Iran or Syria can dream of . |