Example sentences of "[vb base] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large women sit knitting alongside neat men in tweed jackets , teenagers in torn jeans , mothers and children and the elderly . |
| 2 | General manager David Melvin said : ‘ We provide catering to 350 outlets within the region , including schools , but we have to tender for that business . |
| 3 | Pheromone binding to two rodent urinary proteins revealed by X-ray crystallography |
| 4 | OSF LOOKING FOR SCALABLE TECHNOLOGY |
| 5 | Consciousness and matter interact according to this principle . |
| 6 | MESSAGE BEGINS STOP EGG NOW LAID AND INCUBATING NICELY STOP EXPECT HATCHING IN FEW WEEKS STOP SUGGEST YOU CONTACT AVIARY AND BEGIN SELECTING SPECIMEN STOP TUES 1100 EST STOP MANVILLE APD/ 3700925/WP MESSAGE ENDS |
| 7 | It is for this reason we currently have the ludicrous situation of two record fish lists , one run by the National Anglers Council , which is a record of fish that were claimed in accordance with a set of inflexible rules , and one that is run by the National Association of Specialist Anglers , whose record fish appear according to individual merit , this merit being judged by highly experienced specialist anglers who know a ‘ con ’ when they see one and who would reject a claim if there were any doubt as to its truth . |
| 8 | Example 2 is a common blues lick descending from high A down to A two octaves lower . |
| 9 | Police say dealing with such situations presents them with a dilema … between safety and |
| 10 | The argument that converted barns provide housing for rural communities is well and truly scotched by the average price of conversions — well beyond the means of local people . |
| 11 | Right has anyone got anything they want raising from that list ? |
| 12 | There is nothing more depressing than a collection of so-called first editions and rare items displaying faded spines , mull bursting through cracked hinges , scarred leather inadequately treated with greasy polish , mending tape of various hues round the spine , head and tail bands hanging forlornly and , perhaps worst of all , a badly lettered brown paper cover holding the whole thing together . |
| 13 | Following on from difference ( 2 ) — the integration difference — most real hypertext applications involve working with other tools . |
| 14 | He grasped the little man 's arms desperately and they lay looking into each other 's faces . |
| 15 | It 's become a truism that we despise ageing in this culture , and I see few signs of that abating . |
| 16 | Breeds develop according to local needs and fashions , so that it is not necessarily true that a large , red , short-horned breed in one area has a common ancestry with a similarly large red in another , any more than it is correct to assume a blood link between the black-eared , white-coated White Park and the similarly coloured but polled British White , or between the Gloucester and the Pinzgauer of Austria because their coat patterns are similar . |
| 17 | We sit looking at each other . |
| 18 | And if we have n't got a full slate well I mean looking at that list we 're doing quite well . |
| 19 | That is , the reformulation draws the hearer 's attention to the range of contextual assumptions which distinguish sprinting from ordinary running . |
| 20 | In the USA , some 40 states restrict smoking in public places and workplace smoking policies have increased dramatically in the 1980s . |
| 21 | On a lighter note , imagine passing by these posters while you are on the back of a number 42 bus ? |
| 22 | WORRIED STAFF REPRESENTATIVES AT BULL SEEK MEETING WITH POSTAL MINISTER BEFORE DECISIONS ARE TAKEN |
| 23 | " Look , stop looking at those females and pay attention ; you are following all this , are n't you ? " |
| 24 | Cost saving on this scale is particularly important in videodisc applications because videodiscs and their workstations are costly . |
| 25 | An annual briefing on cable break procedures and other emergencies would be very valuable for everyone who flies gliders , and particularly those who stop flying for long periods over the winter months and so get badly out of practice . |
| 26 | And if you stop running for two blocks , you 're a dead man . ’ |
| 27 | New figures show spending on social security in Britain will rise by nearly fourteen billion pounds by the turn of the century even if unemployment falls . |
| 28 | Furthermore , it provides the beginnings of a theory which discriminates between responses which offer short-term emotional comfort for people and changes in technology and economy which produce real gains in human happiness and lessen suffering in this life . |
| 29 | I expect people stop demonstrating for all sorts of reasons : age , infirmity , clashing responsibilities , or sheer apathy . |
| 30 | Stop playing with that phone again ! |