Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is most evident in cases of indecent assault , which may be committed by the least unwanted touching or stroking of one person 's body by another . |
| 2 | This is done by applying pressure to the mastfoot by pulling or pushing with one hand on the mast . |
| 3 | There are no exact equivalents for li and ch'i among our concepts , and there is no way of approaching them except by breaking out from or awakening to one analogy after another . |
| 4 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 5 | The BT–13 could be reworked as the Val with major modifications , while Canary cleverly envisioned mating the forward fuselage section of the AT–6 with the aft fuselage of a BT–13 and splicing in two fuselage plugs to create the elongated Kate fuselage . |
| 6 | The way Albert was staring at her , dry and disbelieving with one eyebrow raised , was so maddening ! |
| 7 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 8 | In his biography of John Wesley the by then very conservative Robert Southey warned : Perhaps the manner in which Methodism has familiarized the lower classes to the work of combining in associations , making rules for their own governance , raising funds , and communicating from one part of the kingdom to another , may be reckoned among the incidental evils which have arisen from it . |
| 9 | We allocated speaking and listening to one profile component since they are essentially reciprocal , interacting activities and , as such , best taken together . |
| 10 | Youthful offenders were also believed to be getting younger , and according to one magistrate parental authority was at such a low ebb that ‘ it is melancholy to find that some parents are not ashamed to confess that children of seven or eight years old are entirely beyond their control ’ , while another thought that ‘ in nine cases out of ten , children are entirely masters of the position ’ . |
| 11 | And according to one teacher , who fears she might be victimised if she gives her name , only one of the two teachers taken on at her school for a total of 48 four-year-olds , was actually trained to teach under-fives . |
| 12 | And according to one study of young black mothers , they are often deterred from attending clinics and classes because of judgemental and discriminatory treatment by hospital and community staff . |
| 13 | Besides , there is a back-log of acidity already in the soil ; and according to one estimate , Scottish lochs would remain at their disastrously acid level even if present acid fallout was halved by AD 2000 . |
| 14 | Well I , I I , I do n't mind how it 's done but erm I hear nothing on the many people on , you know , who talk about erm giving aid erm a dread from this problem is this vast erm amount of the G M P and going on armaments and going on one way and another . |
| 15 | He stared as Matthew mutinously bit his lip , lowering his gaze to the floor and fidgeting from one foot to the other . |
| 16 | I was examining teachers and teaching in one school using such methods as participant observation , unstructured interviews and documentary evidence . |
| 17 | The West End success It 's Magic took off on tour on April 24 , taking in 26 venues all over the country and calling for one night at Sunderland Empire on May 16 . |
| 18 | Many are changing jobs and moving from one town to another and from large cities to smaller towns . |
| 19 | Er , certainly , Senior Inspector , erm paragraphs six point four , and continuing into six point five . |
| 20 | A double extrapolation is then carried out , as shown in figure 9.9 , by joining all points of equal concentration and extrapolating to zero angle , and then all points measured at equal angles and extrapolating these to zero concentration . |
| 21 | Apart from re-iterating his belief , which is gaining support , that there probably should be a completely new major circuit of not more than a dozen tournaments , based round the Grand Slams and culminating in one end-of-season event , Becker said ‘ We 're not machines . |
| 22 | With the gale and hail at his back , Bradford and Bingley 's flyhalf Peter Rutledge scored all their points in the first half , converting his own try and succeeding with four penalty goals . |
| 23 | With the gale and hail at his back , Bradford and Bingley 's flyhalf Peter Rutledge scored all their points in the first half , converting his own try and succeeding with four penalty goals . |
| 24 | But there are many languages in which the tone can determine the meaning of a word , and changing from one tone to another can completely change the meaning . |
| 25 | Instead of meandering up a path to the top , chatting amicably to a pal about how George Michael used to be good in Wham and passing round the butterscotch , they choose a cliff and try to reach the summit by slowly inching their way up vertical rock , pushing their fingers into tiny fissures and standing with one toe on a ledge the size of a pebble . |
| 26 | Nicky was gasping , throwing Maria and Luke a quick apologetic glance and standing on one leg to examine an elegant leather shoe as the door closed . |
| 27 | Still , I 'd always tried hard to be a good golfer , and playing off three handicap I knew would stand me in good stead . |
| 28 | Digestion patterns of the native DNA and the complex before dissociation were obtained in the usual manner by mixing 1.5µl radiolabelled DNA with 2µl drug and digesting for 1 minute with 2µl DNase I ( 0.03 units/ml ) . |
| 29 | For a distance of 1.5kpc and beaming into 3.4 steradian ( an assumed value based on the pulse width ) , this represents 6.1x10 34 ergs -1 or about 1.8% of the spin-down energy loss of 3.4x10 36 ergs -1 , comparable to that seen in the Vela pulsar for similar assumptions . |
| 30 | Well this is all very admirable , you might say , and is n't the climbing world just as helpful and welcoming to one newcomer as the next ? |