Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lagerfeld has temporarily switched off , leafing through a magazine and soliciting opinions on each advertisement , each editorial page , and being rude about them . |
| 2 | Deanne Petherbridge 's explosive imaginary architectonics emanate from this artist 's acute critical investigations into drawing as a genre and its media ; she brought her awareness of the new art history and gender studies to bear on a recent selection of works in pencil , charcoal , pen and ink , etc for a touring exhibition . |
| 3 | FIREFIGHTER Gary Madill is lucky to be alive after crashing through a roof and smashing 25 feet to the ground . |
| 4 | You can use a submersible pump , which you 're using for a fountain or cascade to empty most of the water , but only do this to the level of the pump intake — then it 's a matter of bailing out with a bucket . |
| 5 | And we 've allowed for the fact that cooking for a family or organising a dinner party may take you away from the cooker when you want the food to go on cooking . |
| 6 | Urged on by their riders with short metal-tipped bamboo rods , the elephants lowered themselves slowly to their knees , facing towards the throne , and remained kneeling for a minute or two , their trunks curling and swaying in front of them in time with the cacophonous music . |
| 7 | She was dying for a coffee but some streak of perversity made her answer briskly , ‘ Neither , thank you . |
| 8 | His large family lived on the floor above and scampered between hotel and home by climbing through a window and up a fire escape . |
| 9 | Some cat was climbing through a window and it were n't going . |
| 10 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 11 | Sylvia had rung up me about booking for a meal and I thought , originally they talked about going a Friday night , and they said , Friday and Saturday are fully booked for the next five weeks . |
| 12 | Su Ragazzi , who are bidding for a league and cup double , beat Jets in straight sets in Sewell 's second game in charge earlier this season but defeated them in the return in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | He looked at it quite philosophically , seeing poaching as an irritant but also as an inevitable occurrence ; in headhunting , all 's fair in love and war . |
| 14 | A WRITTLE Agricultural College technician was banned from driving for a year and fined £270 with £35 costs by Witham magistrates yesterday after pleading guilty to driving with excess alcohol . |
| 15 | Both were also banned from driving for a year and ordered to pay £25 costs . |
| 16 | If your offer is acceptable then you proceed by applying for a mortgage and informing your appointed solicitor or conveyancing agent of the details of the purchase , so that he or she can then make formal overtures to the vendor 's solicitors . |
| 17 | Three conditions apply : the claimant must be in paid working employment for 16 hours or more a week , suffer from an illness or disability which leaves them disadvantaged when applying for a job and must have recently been getting benefit such as income support , housing or community charge benefit . |
| 18 | a ) If P = is a b , x-normal for program and F is a finite set of constant expressions we define unc to be unc where y is the list of all variables appearing free in P. b ) If P = is a b , x-ALT pattern and F is a finite set of constant expressions we define unc to be the program in which unc is applied to each normal form appearing after a communication or within a minimal acceptance . |
| 19 | The least uncovering of a hand or foot causes chilliness |
| 20 | The least uncovering of a hand or foot causes chilliness or cough . |
| 21 | Have you ever been walking or driving towards a destination and completely missed your turning because your mind was somewhere else ? |
| 22 | It can be released through physical action such as sawing logs , by stamping one 's foot onto the accelerator and driving like a maniac or simply by smashing a plate . |
| 23 | They were walking like a fellow and his date . |
| 24 | He tossed it into a front garden , laughing like a child and neither doing nor intending damage . |
| 25 | In this business , a sense of direction can mean the difference between laughing like a drain or getting caught with your trousers around the ankles of a friend you never had . |
| 26 | She met him again by chance on a train , after he had been lecturing at Bromley , and found him strangely excited , laughing like a manic-depressive and unable to sit still in the carriage . |
| 27 | There 's no point in me appearing with a pig-tail and diamanté donkey jacket . |
| 28 | Right great and what happens what seems to be happening with a base and an acid or an acid and a base ? |
| 29 | By the end of 1981 and into 1982 , however , these new outbreaks were occurring with a rapidity and density which in retrospect can be seen as the building blocks for a full-blown heroin ‘ epidemic ’ . |
| 30 | Perhaps not going home but booking into a hotel and |