Example sentences of "[v-ing] they [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I go to college now I 'm doing my G C S Es and I 'm enjoying them very much and I 'm glad I went onto that course first . |
| 2 | Try using them more often and you will get more enjoyment out of life and be healthier too . |
| 3 | It would seem sensible , therefore , to try and avoid using them as far as possible . |
| 4 | She lay in bed , curled up like a ball , grasping her twin moons , and erotically easing them apart so that the cleft widened to expose her tight little bumhole . |
| 5 | Then she brought both hands back to her lips and spread her arms expansively , before bringing them back together and pushing her fists forward at waist-height as she rocked on her haunches ; then the banana sign , clearer and more distinct this time , both hands finally coming together with the fingers bent , a rough but distinct letter B. |
| 6 | All of this involved taking both parents ’ sex cells with their half-complement of DNA signals in the chromosomes , and bringing them together so that the cells could clamp on to each other and start dividing and growing . |
| 7 | I was just worried that you 'd be furious with me for bringing them down here when you were out of the country . |
| 8 | I started drawing them as well as I could remember . |
| 9 | By now the men at the window had fixed bayonets , and fell upon the invaders , driving them back temporarily until sheer weight of numbers decided the issue . |
| 10 | The constabulary was hard at work driving them out again and giving out cautions that whoever took in any of the evicted would himself be turned out . |
| 11 | Allow about five folded pieces of blotting paper to one directory , spacing them equally so that the pages of the directory act like the newspaper in the press . |
| 12 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 13 | If anyone puts a verse like that on my headstone , I 'm warning them right now that I 'll get up and haunt them for ever . |
| 14 | The days of leaving one 's brains at the front gate and picking them up again when one leaves are firmly in the past . |
| 15 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 16 | One morning there were over 2,000 tadpoles in my pond ( I was bailing them out temporarily because the liner had a leak , so I was counting them too ! ) . |
| 17 | Divide them into groups of the same number ( pencilling them out lightly or placing a dot beside them as you do so ) . |
| 18 | Guiltily she ran down the bouncing shallow steps , jarring them as hard as she could to off-balance the last man on his feet . |
| 19 | This applies even if he seems to be selling them too quickly or too cheaply . |
| 20 | What chance have they got of getting them all right when they can only inspect houses from the road outside ? ’ |
| 21 | So while it is a good idea to move in on all your slow payers as quickly as possible , it is an even better idea to concentrate your efforts on your biggest accounts first rather than spreading them more thinly and less effectively over all your customers . |
| 22 | That way they could see you are treating them equally even though your daughter 's children are less bother . |
| 23 | The children all agreed that the adults were well behaved , embarrassing them only once when they stood up to sing ‘ I 'm A Little Teapot ’ , with actions ! |
| 24 | Packing them up nice you know and chocking them tight so as they would n't shift you see , when the ship was rolling . |
| 25 | If they do , then I 've been running them very inefficiently and incompetently . |
| 26 | She was kneading the gloves in her lap , gripping them so tightly that her knuckles showed white . |
| 27 | It is impossible to say to what extent Cézanne was aware of the fact that he was doing this , and in the process breaking the laws of scientific linear perspective , but it seems likely that it was part of a natural desire to emphasize the two-dimensional aspect of the canvas while continuing to explain the nature of objects and also insisting on their solidity by modelling them as fully as possible . |
| 28 | The previous two aspects are clearly the main thrusts of RMI but combining them together successfully and reducing negative fall-out within the organisation is , in effect , the third aspect , that of managing the cultural change that new systems will inevitably produce . |
| 29 | Her studies were remarkable ; as a young woman Madame had filled eighteen notebooks with summaries of these women 's careers , reading them very literally as sources of practical advice , in much the same way as she had taught herself to understand stock management and how to do her own accounts . |
| 30 | The cost of developing new innovative products is extremely high ; companies must be able to defray the high front-end cost associated with translating inventions into commercially successful products by marketing them as widely as possible around the world . |