Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the pill he kept waking and hearing the old men around him coughing or mumbling in their sleep . |
| 2 | ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . |
| 3 | ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . |
| 4 | This result is probably implicit in the concept of appropriation ( or ‘ conversion ’ ) ; but it is made explicit by the provision in clause 3(1) that a person 's assumption of the rights of an owner ‘ includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . ’ |
| 5 | There is an appropriation where in those circumstances he later assumes " a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner " . |
| 6 | For there was absolutely no need at all for him to walk so close to where she was walking or to bump into her and so catch her off balance — the end result being that he had his arms around her , as if to save her , before she could stop him . |
| 7 | They dragged her by her arms as she shouted , twisting and turning in their grasp . |
| 8 | The handkerchief that she 'd been twisting and untwisting at our first interview came out again , this time to her eyes . |
| 9 | The members spend their evenings twisting and stretching on their mats . |
| 10 | Once Richards had to dive out of the way as Tribe , twisting and stretching in his straps lurched across the formation . |
| 11 | In 1629 the Tsar Mikhail severely reproved Louis XIII himself for failing to use his full title in official letters and warned him that " We can not approve your habit of wishing to be our friend and yet denying and taking from us the titles and qualities which almighty God has given us and which we so justly possess . " |
| 12 | Adam stopped walking and stared at her . |
| 13 | ‘ You better stop sulking and apologize to your mother or I wo n't take you to Argentina . ’ |
| 14 | As far as I was concerned it was a nightmare , and merged in my memory with actually being evacuated ; the kids going down to Ladywell station in a crocodile on one side of the road , clutching oranges and bars of chocolate , and the mothers on the other , weeping and wailing and shouting to us across the street , lots of dwarfs and lots of Snow Whites . |
| 15 | It 's certainly difficult to imagine anything dark or dastardly happening in Dentdale — it seems such a friendly , cheerful , always happy place , with its rounded fells , its lush fields and the river appearing and disappearing below its limestone bed . |
| 16 | She had a nasty habit of simply appearing and staring at him . |
| 17 | Mr Toad was loose on the racetrack , yowling and tooting to himself |
| 18 | Mr Toad was loose on the racetrack , yowling and tooting to himself and let all beware who saw him come . |
| 19 | He keeps mumbling and chuckling to himself ; a likeably batty old buzzard . |
| 20 | Even though she had n't got to bed till the small hours , and had been feeling totally exhausted , she 'd been tossing and turning for what seemed like hours , utterly unable to sleep . |
| 21 | All nature and life , all spirits , are cooperating and connected with me ; all things are possible . |
| 22 | It was thought to be nothing more than a shattered argillaceous deposit , produced by repeated submarine landslipping and carrying with it exotic blocks ranging in size from small fragments ( plate 4.2 ) up to whole mountains . |
| 23 | The Whip is interrupting and asking for my solution . |
| 24 | He had performed the last rites earlier , when Patrick was at least half aware , and perhaps even knew what was happening and assented to it . |
| 25 | Fortunately I realized what was happening and went to our Old Town doctor , who had some serious things to say about this method she considered Germanic , and we were sent to St Helen 's Hospital for a minor operation and a re-think . |
| 26 | He saw what was happening and comes to my rescue . |
| 27 | ‘ Dreadfully sorry , old chap ! ’ the Commander had said when he first heard , Lis voice wheezing and whistling in his throat . |
| 28 | By his coming to us as a human being and by his suffering , dying and rising for us , our lives have meaning and hope . |
| 29 | Her eyes still fixed on his , her breath shuddering and jerking in her parted mouth , she completed the task . |
| 30 | When the roof of the cooking-stores threatened to blow off , it was his father who held a mat over it , wooden shingles spurting and whirling about him , until the thing could be bound down and weighted . |