Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minton himself saw what was happening and abandoned this practice around 1951 — 2 . |
| 2 | Then I saw a barrel glinting and realized two soldiers were creeping towards me . |
| 3 | MacGregor said nothing about how much the stockpile is costing and said other details are secret . |
| 4 | In the subsequent quarter there will be a further adjustment with the forward looking and lagged return terms reducing the desired stock , the former because the 1% rise is expected to be reversed and the latter because the past rise generates a portfolio adjustment effect . |
| 5 | She showed considerable talent for drawing and had two books on Christian art published in the early 1850s , Symbols and Emblems of Early and Medieval Christian Art ( 1852 ) and The Types and Figures of the Bible ( 1854 ) . |
| 6 | Periodically Moreau translated for the benefit of his countrymen , who thereupon continued to behave in the manner of stage Frenchmen , with much shrugging and stifled Gallic oaths . |
| 7 | She 's ha , she 's been sneezing and got runny nose have n't you ? |
| 8 | AFTER Monday night 's good performance against league leaders Ruislip Manor , which resulted in a draw , Witham kept their good form going and won another point , this time against second-placed Chertsey . |
| 9 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 10 | Mr Dinkins expressed an envy of Tokyo 's cleanliness and low crime rate , but said conditions in his city were improving and urged Japanese companies not to pull out their investments . |
| 11 | Murder in Mind explored the technique of offender profiling and featured filmed interviews with serial killers across the world , including Denis Nilsen . |
| 12 | He made no attempt to re-enter the system without paying but bought two tickets from the machine while the bear waited meekly with bowed head . |
| 13 | In Europe we have one major set of structures , from Precambrian to Recent , which relate first to plates splitting and colliding approximately along the Atlantic line and to the later sea-floor spreading that produced that ocean as we see it today . |
| 14 | Chief Minister Bossano declined to participate , reportedly expecting that increased political integration within the European Communities ( EC ) would eventually guarantee local autonomy . |
| 15 | The original stones of the sloping gable coping had simply been bedded on the slate-roof covering of the aisles at their verges so that rain entering the joints between the coping stones had saturated the top courses of the stone facing and caused premature decay . |
| 16 | Or , in mystic vein , an order of being was glimpsed in which the 1840s , the 1860s , nihilism , Bazarov , found themselves apocalyptically and teleologically disposed — those two polysyllabic adverbs embracing and transcended all nature , including futurity . |
| 17 | ‘ I heard glass breaking and saw three people heading for the door , ’ said 37-year-old Dean , a modern art lover . |
| 18 | Then he extracted the cassette , hauling out the length of tape which had been recording and stuffed both items in his jacket pocket . |
| 19 | We worked ten to twelve hours a day , did a lot of material consuming and worked longer hours so we could consume more . |
| 20 | I argue that the alternative formulation situates jobs in a general theory of social structure , whereas the sociology of the professions has either been confined to ‘ middle range ’ theorising and ignored this problem or sought to bridge the gap between jobs and the social order by empirical statements based on implicit and ( therefore ) ill-formulated theories . |
| 21 | So claiming that had this relationship continued Hilary would probably have ended up as the wife of a petrol pump attender rather than the wife of the President of the United States . |
| 22 | Sir Geoffrey said Britain needed to adopt a less fearful and inhibited approach towards the EC ; arguing that sustained economic recovery depended to a significant degree on an ability to shape Community policies . |
| 23 | That one line was an example of the writing and rewriting that made Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em such a success . |
| 24 | The combination of the abandonment of overfunding and continued heavy borrowing by central government for on-lending to the local authorities and public corporations led to a move to overall money market surpluses in the later 1980s and a fall in the amount of money market assistance outstanding . |
| 25 | Wilkie discussed the Camargue with M. Grimaud , whose cousin had a domaine there , asked Monique and Marie-Claire politely what they were studying and elicited more information in half-an-hour than Frederica had done in several months . |
| 26 | B. Some great industrialists and business people in Sheffield in the last century developed special skills in steel making and made huge profits which provided the capital for larger works . |
| 27 | Once more he was in a good position when one of his tee shots hit an aluminium ladder which a spectator was carrying and ricocheted 40 yards into the trees . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was F W Winterbotham 's languid County and Oxford bearing that seduced these ruffians . |
| 29 | During this time the field of view scanned on successive orbits will overlap by ¼° , ensuring that suspected infrared sources can be sufficiently well confirmed to support the astronomers ' aim that the survey will be 99.8 per cent reliable . |
| 30 | Baker expressed grave concern at the Bootle killing and attacked various institutions for the fact that society has become more violent and selfish . |