Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of locational specifications in general can be gauged from the fact that there seem to be two basic ways of referring to objects — by describing or naming them on the one hand , and by locating them on the other ( Lyons , 1977a : 648 ) . |
| 2 | If he had known his man , and cared for what he knew , he could have battered Albany 's son and heir into surrender , instead of hauling his horse off from crushing or smothering him in the mud . |
| 3 | He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends . |
| 4 | The putting of the city to the ban , or devoting it to the Lord , as the RSV puts it , is part of Joshua 's final orders to the people on the seventh day , and receives no mention in God 's initial instructions to him . |
| 5 | He seemed more likely to blow a kiss than to throw a punch ; to be at a dinner-table than to be down in the dives ; to be rubbing shoulders than to be shoving or sticking it to the comfortable ( I almost said to the bourgeoisie . ) |
| 6 | Another one of his tricks was to lurk behind the counter at the Turk 's Head so customers would think there was no one there , and then , when they were thinking of leaving or helping themselves to the jam doughnuts , he 'd leap on to a wooden box to bring his large dome head just above the level of the counter and say , ‘ Can I help you ? ’ in a very loud voice . |
| 7 | The LC layer is used as a shutter , blocking light or transmitting it onto a screen . |
| 8 | If you try to make life complicated for yourself by using the wrong tool or handling it in an inappropriate fashion then the result is solely your responsibility . |
| 9 | But there is always room for more and the Managing Director of the Resource Centre , Sr Anna Doherty would like to hear from any individuals , groups , clubs or organisations interested in organising an event or contributing anything to the general fun of the weekend . |
| 10 | Less practical is physical destruction like squashing or bashing them on the head . |
| 11 | This is most emphatically not the same as blaming ourselves or burdening ourselves with an unnecessary load of guilt . |
| 12 | This duty does not extend to protecting the economic welfare of the employee by taking out insurance or warning them of the need for insurance cover . |
| 13 | This operation may be put in two-address form by placing the editing pattern in the destination string ( where it will be overwritten ) , or inserting it as a string of " micro-operations " in the instruction stream . |
| 14 | And then they started recruiting or or or promoting them from the ranks you know . |
| 15 | A quota is established by dividing the total number of valid votes by the number of members to be elected plus one , and rounding up or adding one to the quotient . |
| 16 | The trap to be avoided here is to turn the exercise into another source of demand by forcing yourself to go faster every day , swearing that you are going to beat your partner next time , or overdoing it with the weights . |
| 17 | It came as something of a shock to the Poles to realise that the Kaszubians saw no difference between selling their land to a Pole or selling it to a German . |
| 18 | The draftsman should therefore consider whether the landlord should have the right to enter the demise for other purposes also ( eg testing the property , taking samples from it or measuring it for the purpose of rent review ) . |
| 19 | Alternatively , you could use a medium-weight microfibre , wool or a wool mix , leaving it unlined , or lining it with the fabric of your choice . |
| 20 | This does not mean changing the character of the river , or turning it into a canal . |
| 21 | Getting him to eat was no problem , but preventing him throwing his food around or trampling it into the floor was . |
| 22 | In the early stages it was finding them a deal , or moving them to the next level up . ’ |
| 23 | Diluting it and mixing in it into slurry lagoons or spreading it at a low rate on grassland was a method used in the past , but even that may not be possible now . |
| 24 | The pervading atmosphere is one of the 1910s and 1920s , and the tone is set by the holiday houses hiding , like Undertown , among macracarpa trees , or braving it on the cliff with their faces looking to the Atlantic . |
| 25 | Additionally the ADC-10 can perform many functions that are only currently available on expensive digital storage oscilloscope such as saving waveforms to disk , or sending them to a printer . |
| 26 | , but then , when you come to the lunatic fringe then supervisor 's will cut an awful lot of corners to prevent them busting up the office or punching somebody in the nose , a real , I do n't mean people who are just stroppy , I mean the real lunatic . |
| 27 | ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage . |
| 28 | The seller must be someone who is hiring the vehicle under a hire purchase agreement or buying it under a conditional sale agreement . |
| 29 | The 1964 Act , then , gives protection to a bona fide private purchaser who buys a motor vehicle unaware that the seller is hiring or buying it under a hire purchase or conditional sale agreement . |
| 30 | Or he could wash cars , polish shoes or more lucratively , engage in the growing underground economy selling rare commodities at home or smuggling them across the border to nearby Zaire . |