Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would wait for an hour or so , reading a newspaper or catching up on paperwork , then he would go to the McCausland counter and hire a car . |
| 2 | I just do n't want to be the kind of person who suddenly disappears and , in ten years , people say ‘ Hey , I wonder what happened to that guy ? ’ … when I 'm living in misery on a council estate or eating out of rubbish bins . ’ |
| 3 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 4 | After lifting from a chair or helping on to pan , give resident maximum privacy . |
| 5 | A number of young men mentioned going off on their bikes to get away from it all , and amongst older adolescents driving around or driving out of town and parking to view the scenery were popular ‘ escape ’ mechanisms . |
| 6 | Vague objectives might include maintaining a market share or keeping up with technology or offering good value to the customer . |
| 7 | Which do you care about more — keeping in with your friends or keeping in with Jesus ? |
| 8 | He was always getting up to wander down the aisles , interfering with the card school or listening in to people 's personal stereos . |
| 9 | It is entertaining to see a group of loushe Parisian types forming a street band or filling in for cabaret . |
| 10 | New Zealand lambs and dairy cows grow fat the old-fashioned way , by grazing in sunny meadows , not by munching bags of feed full of additives or wandering about on pastures drenched in chemical fertilisers , as their European and American cousins do . |
| 11 | But Ludens was not concerned now with writing his ‘ next book ’ , or rushing off to Rome or Paris to read in libraries . |
| 12 | The Marx brothers might have shown more tolerance than Karl Marx for Stalin 's antics : throwing food at guests unwise enough to nod off at table during his interminable late-night dinner parties , or racing round in meetings ‘ cursing like a cab driver ’ . |
| 13 | But let's look first at the visible problems , realising the need for fun , not for a fruitless day 's digging or waiting around for ferrets that are none too likely to return to the surface once allowed underground . |
| 14 | And also , but half the time it 's the problem arises because it 's , the machines gone to personnel without something , and then we 've got to spend time either chasing it up or getting another bit or going round in circles . |
| 15 | or going down into Ipswich with your mum and coming up with grandpa . |
| 16 | ‘ My hobbies include knitting , reading nursing material , the newspapers and Stephen King novels , writing letters , badminton , walking , driving , pop music , Tamla Motown music , bowling , gardening , visiting the pub or going out for meals . |
| 17 | She did n't smoke and never drank , preferring to spend her free time reading , watching television , visiting friends or going out for supper in modest bistros . |
| 18 | Teachers are entitled to discipline pupils in respect of conduct while out of school , such as on a school trip or bullying out of school where a pupil 's conduct ‘ impinges on the school ’ . |
| 19 | To contend under these circumstances that Jesus was a feminist , or that he spoke out for women , must imply a very low estimate of what being a feminist ( or speaking out for women ) might mean . |
| 20 | Continue these small heading changes until the pointer is steady or moving back towards centre . |
| 21 | She could go to the synagogue and to large shopping centres as before , without having to worry about coping with stairs or moving about in crowds . |
| 22 | They are screening out risky clients or moving out of audit into less litigious areas of service . |
| 23 | There will also be spontaneous small group work , with the teacher maybe intervening in role , or staying out of role , commenting , spotlighting work for others to see . |
| 24 | One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence . |
| 25 | Running-out is the technique used for creating a smooth , solid area of icing with an exact outline — not easy to achieve by straight-forward piping or cutting out from set icing . |
| 26 | It had been a choice between bearing what he had or running back to Aber where he was privileged and protected , and for Harry that had been no choice at all . |
| 27 | Blaming others or opting out of responsibility is a reliable sign that Ego is in control . |
| 28 | Hobson says that his section failed to meet 25 per cent of its targets last year , and added that " unless substantial additional resources can be made available over the next three years , something will have to give — either substantial slippage on the Environment Protection Act timetable ( which the Director does not recommend ) or opting out of policy development issues ( not easy where there are public commitments or international pressures ) " . |
| 29 | Or coming back with bruises ; how you suddenly became so very clumsy or so easily marked . |
| 30 | I 'm not interested in you telling me what those meaning are or coming out with kind of y'know ideas that crossing your arms means that you 're defensive or anything like that . |