Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sometimes think now , Oh gawd , I must have really looked like a schlepp when I used to turn up at Motown or somewhere taking a punk rocky attitude with me . |
| 2 | And we were , how we were gon na combat it , and in the very next room were or rather holding a conference on how to do us in . |
| 3 | More often the impact of dogmatically held relativism on other people is to cause them to waver , feel uncertain and drift into what they feel they can be sure about — mostly in Western society a materialist attitude to life , or perhaps pursuing a lifestance which thinks it has avoided value judgements . |
| 4 | They can literally walk in the footsteps of people in the past , walking a section of Roman road or an old packhorse track , or following the route of an abandoned railway , or perhaps storming a hill-fort or castle . |
| 5 | Voluntary to my mind suggests that the payer being aware of all relevant circumstances including the true state of the law or perhaps having a doubt but not caring which way that doubt is resolved consciously makes a decision to pay . |
| 6 | Not that that prevented Cale from screaming at a potted plant sitting on his piano , or suddenly demolishing a table beside his stool with an axe in mid-performance . |
| 7 | A dancer coming forwards can convey a variety of meaning : giving a greeting ; asking a question , even if it is only an inquisitive movement of the head ; saying Yes , or agreeing with a nod or with a particular wave of the hand ; giving something with arms circling outwards , e.g. Natalia and the Tutor when they open their arms to each other ; or merely proffering a hand at the beginning of a dance , e.g. Paris offering his hand to Juliet . |
| 8 | When he commits himself to an assignment — be it a poem , a book , a song , or merely aiding a fellow-scribbler 's itch , he does it with gusto — con brio , as he might annotate one of his scores . |
| 9 | Also , perhaps , that sometimes at night , she finds her crying for the starving of Africa or unable to sleep with the terror of the possibility of nuclear war or desperately seeking a denial of the reality of the horror of the Holocaust . |
| 10 | Treat yourself to a special evening of entertainment — whether it be hiring a video you 've been meaning to watch , going to the cinema or theatre , or just visiting a friend . |
| 11 | and hardware.intensive interfaces ( or possibly attempting a compromise between the extremes depicted in Figs. 8.1 and 8.2 ) , the system designer has to consider several aspects of microprocessor and motor performance . |
| 12 | Up to £600 for alternative travel expenses ( including car hire ) and up to £400 for emergency hotel and food expenses if your vehicle is off the road for eight hours or more following a breakdown , accident , fire or theft . |
| 13 | In Savage ( 1990 ) 91 Cr App R 317 , the same court ( but a different division ) on the same day said that intentionally or recklessly causing a battery was sufficient , as long as actual bodily harm occurred . |
| 14 | The original duty owed was the basic one of not intentionally or recklessly injuring a trespasser known to be present ( Addie v Dumbreck Collieries [ 1929 ] AC 358 ) . |
| 15 | The Mental Health Act 1983 contains a somewhat similar offence of ill-treating or wilfully neglecting a patient in a mental hospital , which has a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 16 | Accordingly workers striking on an economic upswing often found employers more ready to negotiate than to prosecute , although if masters decided to combine to take on the union by resisting a wage demand or even enforcing a cut and bound themselves not to employ each other 's dismissed workmen , the law might be a more ready resort . |
| 17 | For example , a typical lineage may result in cell type A giving two cell types B and C , and only C continues to divide to give types D and E. Mutants can result in the substitution of type Z for B ; or make the lineage symmetrical — B now giving D and E ; or even generating a stem cell line with B being replaced by A which repeats the pattern of cell divisions and cell differentiation . |
| 18 | She knew that he had two grown-up daughters of his own and would scarcely have approved of aiding and abetting or even allowing a girl of Liza 's age to be left in any compromising situation with a young married man . |
| 19 | After that maybe , just maybe , you can start proving to me you do possess some measure of professionalism — although to be honest , ’ he added caustically , ‘ I 'm finding it hard to believe you 're capable of distinguishing between a weed and an orchid at the moment , or even digging a garden , let alone ever designing one . ’ |
| 20 | At Inside Job the most important person is the customer and a complete service is available to everyone , whether they are designing a whole house or simply choosing a border . |
| 21 | He could be photographed using the concept keyboard ( and outgrowing the available programmes ) , being squeezed half-way into a hotel loo ( as part of the Access Group ) or simply having a laugh with friends on the scheme who treat him as an equal . |
| 22 | It was about unravelling the merger mistakes of the 1960s : splitting up conglomerates , or else buying a firm and selling off divisions that were remote from its main business . |
| 23 | By burning , tearing , or otherwise destroying a will , if this is done by the testator or any person in his presence and by his direction with the intention of revolting it . |
| 24 | " supply " is defined in s46 to include : ( a ) selling , hiring out or lending the goods ; ( b ) entering into a hire-purchase agreement to furnish the goods ; ( c ) the performance of any contract for work and materials to furnish the goods ; ( d ) providing the goods in exchange for any consideration ( including trading stamps ) other than money ; ( e ) providing the goods in or in connection with the performance of any statutory function ; or ( f ) giving the goods as a prize or otherwise making a gift of the goods . |
| 25 | If you see someone attempting or actually stealing a vehicle , or see someone acting suspiciously near vehicles — ring the police immediately . |
| 26 | Man charged : Steven Leach , 35 , of The Close , Walton , appeared at Liverpool today charged with abducting and indecently assaulting a boy of four , and was remanded in custody until Friday , after a massive police search . |
| 27 | Irina , turning on the hot water and vigorously mopping a plate , said , ‘ Do n't worry . |
| 28 | Most health statistics , for example , are the result of people deciding that they are ill , and successfully convincing a doctor of this . |
| 29 | The DLP secured an overwhelming victory , winning 564 of the 866 seats at stake , and thereby securing a mandate to control 11 of the 15 assemblies . |
| 30 | An unoccupied person , finding a drum , may be seized with a desire to beat it ; but unless he is an imbecile he will be unable to continue beating it , and thereby satisfying a need ( rather than a ‘ desire ’ ) , without finding a reason for so doing . |