Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 2 | She was bringing them some papers and some photographs in a big brown envelope . |
| 3 | When we take breaks — when I 'm at home or on vacation — my chops go down drastically because I 'm enjoying my free time and doing things I do n't usually have time to do . |
| 4 | I well remember attending an ecumenical garden party , minding my own business and trying to juggle a cup of weak tea and a sinewy rock cake . |
| 5 | A pamphlet produced by the Department of Trade and Industry ( The Single Market — an action checklists for business , May 1989 , HMSO ) perhaps best sums up how companies can take advantage of the single market in terms of protecting their existing markets and developing new markets . |
| 6 | ‘ Those representing developed countries were primarily interested in protecting their own industries and jobs and security at the polls , not in protecting the environment . |
| 7 | These models suggest that women 's and men 's subjectivities stem from female and male animals , universally different interests , in protecting their genetic investments and spreading their genes widely , respectively . |
| 8 | Rex followed Laura into the cab which was becoming their second home and they were driven off into A Night of Danger . |
| 9 | However , the state also performs certain hegemonic functions too , justifying its own existence and authority in the rhetoric of the courts and in its celebration of the nation . |
| 10 | They are normally responsible for purchasing their own uniform and music , and often their own instrument too . |
| 11 | A protocol between the RSK and the SRBH , signed by respective Prime Ministers Zdravko Zecevic and Branko Djeric on Sept. 24 , envisaged bilateral co-operation to the extent of harmonising their political systems and economies . |
| 12 | He studied at the University of Oxford at a time when Colet had thrown off the old method of scholastic teaching , which consisted of repeating the comments of previous interpreters of the Bible , and instead , in his lectures on St Paul 's Epistles , was explaining their historic background and expounding their spiritual truths . |
| 13 | Within many sites , however , there are ranges of buildings which often occupy enclosed strips of land not unlike medieval crofts , suggesting that some people , craftsmen included , were raising their own produce or keeping their own pigs and fowl . |
| 14 | She wrote a highly perceptive appreciation of Burns 's character in the Dumfries Journal ( August 1796 ) and collaborated energetically with Burns 's biographer , James Currie — thereby also effectively protecting her own interests and reputation . |
| 15 | A business may then order goods on a form incorporating its standard terms of purchase ; the seller may respond by acknowledging the order on a form incorporating its standard terms and a " battle of the forms " may result . |
| 16 | The ignoramuses who deplored pop music in the fifties failed to understand how these new forms , far from being ‘ a return to the jungle , ’ were actually heightening genuine musical development by incorporating their rhythmic vitality and percussive effects into them , as Stravinsky had done . |
| 17 | An upper garment is drawn diagonally across the breasts , revealing their broad forms and falling loose below them over the tight belt which it conceals at the sides , and it hangs in a shallow curve on the left hip , a long trail on the right . |
| 18 | When it came to revealing her personal likes and dislikes , Joanne was not a girl of many words . |
| 19 | Katie Jane 's been stricken by the acting but too , floating in as a jilted bride in wig and mask before revealing her new crop and slinging on the trademark tousled Ophelia barnet . |
| 20 | A fringe of hair plaited with tiny Belial clay beads bobbed gently in the reduced gravity , obscuring her dark skin and brooding eyes . |
| 21 | Their staff were generally willing to ‘ have a go ’ , and with some information and support went a long way in challenging their own attitudes and those of other children and parents . |
| 22 | The Palestinian guerrillas would squat behind their outposts of earth and rocks up in the cold air among the fir trees , cradling their rocket-propelled grenades and announcing to us that the Syrians would not be permitted to move one more metre — not one more inch — along the highway to Beirut . |
| 23 | But new rules for NHS dentists are delaying her new set and Ivy can only take liquids . |
| 24 | She pinched her cheeks quickly to add a little colour , and straightened the skirt of her plum-coloured sweater-dress before squaring her slim shoulders and resuming her descent . |
| 25 | Perhaps most disturbing from the point of view of the central authorities , the party organisations in the three republics , particularly in Lithuania , began to press for a greater degree of independence , establishing direct links with outside ruling parties and adopting their own programme and statute , within or if necessary outside the framework of the CPSU as a whole . |
| 26 | That hateful , arrogant old woman , with her superior airs and her chilly snobbishness , patting her bloody dog and talking about the child she was carrying as ‘ splendid news ’ . |
| 27 | He grabbed the microphone while the other three started thrashing their respective instruments and screamed : |
| 28 | The wings , relishing their new-found space and responsibilities , pounced on every loose ball , thundering bullet-like crosses through the Cranleigh ‘ D ’ . |
| 29 | The party developed various ploys to maintain its position , like acquiring its own experts and co-opting people with strong group links on to the Politburo . |
| 30 | Maria paused in the doorway , surveying her new colleagues and their partners , a handful of them local people but mainly men and women from all over the English-speaking world , because radio people had a gypsy tendency to move on every few years . |