Query: ^"sing=VERB"
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Run on 22-Jun-2001 17:19:42 (  on server BNC2) 
A0R.2108 : ‘Do you remember, baby, last September how you held me ti-ight each and every ni-ight?’, they *sang* as the back door opened and Nick came in, a bottle of wine in each hand.
A6E.1210 : But we still couldn't tell whether he could *sing* or not.
A73.196 : *Singing* just like a lark —
ABS.542 : As I moved into the small museum, a male chorus started *singing* over the sound system: Glory, glory, it's a hell of a way to die…
AC2.2266 : The following Sunday Pat Muldoon stood in what had formerly been his local church at Gross Pointe, Michigan, and *sang* to the heavens, ‘If I can help somebody, as I go along, then my living will not be in vain….’ without paying the slightest attention to the meaning of the words.
ACE.2992 : Although she didn't quite know exactly what that entailed, he looked so depressed she murmured words of sympathy while her heart went on *singing* inside.
ACS.5 : Affluence was the song the sirens *sang* in the United States, from which war and its economic expansion had finally banished the Depression.
ADM.2196 : As he *sang*, he strummed a guitar.
ADR.871 : To prove not just a mutual love of music but a mutual love of each other Kylie and Dannii *sang* a duet together at an Australian anti-drugs concert — the song they sang was appropriately called ‘Sisters’.
AHX.487 : ‘Haply I think on thee, and then my state, like to the lark at break of day arising from sun and earth, *sings* hymns at Heaven's gate: for thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings, that then I scorn to change my state with kings.’
AJV.534 : She is far too earthy and voluptuous, but she *sings* the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen cycle very well indeed, a few sustained high notes excepted, in another refreshing interpretation.
ALL.1386 : Someone started *singing* ‘God Save the King’ and soon everybody was joining in, thousands of strong hearts and lungs, shipyard workers, foundry men, train drivers, some still on strike, were swept away by the tide of emotion.
AR2.1192 : I want you to note that I am not *singing* just ‘Take my back, because it is my best feature’ (in the mirror we could see her beautiful strong back in the low cut of the dress, and of course we could see ourselves too).
ARG.74 : This is what they *sang* in praise to God:
B0P.774 : This is fallacy, and simply stems from the fact that the angler who *sings* the praises of one bait uses that bait, and consequently catches more of his fish on that bait than any other.
B38.2140 : A song like I am *singing* sweetpea fog,
BMK.1196 : Among her achievements was writing the school song, which is now *sung* to a tune composed by Miss R. C. Evans, music mistress at the school from 1924 to 1949.
BN6.232 : I used to enjoy the *singing* a lot but sometimes the preachers used to go on quite a bit.
BPK.1024 : The huge crowd of villagers and visitors *sang* a selection of hymns with great gusto for about half an hour before the band marched off down the road.
C8P.39 : By the time three adults are up beside you *singing*, I usually find I have the attention of everyone.
C9M.242 : So I can still hear him talking to me when I'm doing some of this stuff, especially when I'm trying to *sing* — which has not been easy.
CA0.2538 : The trunks of the gum trees soared bright pink, the tack room windows flared crimson and all the birds in the world seemed to be *singing* for joy.
CAE.1925 : Evelyn King was 15 and *singing* while hard at work sweeping a Philadelphia studio when she was heard by producer T-Life.
CDC.980 : Billy, the Havildar-Major, was a tiny, wizened man, always smiling and very devout, who never went to sleep without first *singing* softly to himself all three verses of ‘Jesus loves me, this I know’.
CDG.25 : But he's *singing* like a romantic lead.
CHA.2555 : Stunningly arranged and orchestrated and devastatingly *sung*, it changed our expectations of soul, indeed of all pop, forever.
CHB.2278 : Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition, he neglects the art of *singing* into the mic, grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street .
CHR.507 : What do Tarzan and the animals *sing* at Christmas time?
CJA.678 : As she passed by, she realized it was the bird that was *singing*.
CK9.1450 : At first she had complained to Aggie, saying they were stupid because they taught nothing but the abc and counting, and that most of the time was spent *singing* hymns and listening to stories from the Bible.
CRA.1461 : *Singing* the blues
ED7.583 : When she *sings* something like ‘Nothing Left At All’ you can almost feel the sky closing in tight above you, getting so close that you could reach up with a broomstick and touch it.
EE5.1077 : Sergeant Moustaine gave one of the Frenchmen a walkie talkie and told him that on reaching the summit the entire section should *sing* all three verses of the 'Képi Blanc' into the radio.
EE5.1345 : As the Captain commanding the 3rd Squadron came into the dining hall, we stood to attention to *sing* a slow lament called ‘ Souvenir qui Passe ’, before sitting down to eat.
EFW.1068 : Such was the enthusiasm that you might have thought that the Collector had just *sung* an aria.
F72.111 : As she worked in her garden Nyasha, who was so happy, *sang* a song.
F72.636 : He *sang* about his love of the sea.
F9H.785 : Above us, tiny rounded ties *sang* high pitched, squeaky phrases, two-note chants, as they acrobat Ed up and over twigs, peering at the underneath of fat green sycamore buds for grubs.
FAN.814 : They applied to the Japanese for permission to fly the national flag and *sing* the national song, Indonesia Raya .
FEP.1558 : The dock groaned beneath the combined weight of the town waving and *singing* goodbye to us in full ceremonial dress.
FET.1228 : This had, and George Eliot knew it, little or even nothing to do with Christ's injunctions to his followers, and certainly nothing at all to do with the Incarnation which was now being celebrated as the congregation *sang*' Unto us a Boy is Born' as Daniel at the white-draped altar, with its lovingly embroidered white cloth, watched with Mr Ellenby over the bread and wine.
FP7.2283 : The acid trip came and went like an image on a screen, sometimes faint, sometimes strong — music among the trees, Lori's dark head *singing*, colours among the undergrowth, curling like lurid fog, light crowning the treetops, Lori seeming to move in a stately dance. 
FP9.854 : The Desperate Bicycles *sang* about ‘Xerox rock’, while Scritti Politti printed details of recording and manufacturing costs on the sleeve of their first single.
FPH.1461 : *Singing* to me, faultlessly, the best-loved song of the show, Queen of my Heart .
FPY.29 : Many of them welcome parish or other choirs to *sing* their services.
FPY.1582 : But in most places, and particularly in the parish Eucharist, the congregation ought to be enabled to *sing* more than hymns.
FRC.148 : They created their own environment around them.Although behind them was a six-foot-high beer-bottle, with the red-lettered statement ‘A Man's Drink!’ across it, they superimposed upon it a silent and rocky country where there was always a wind blowing with a touch of rain on it and few birds *sang*.
FRF.3275 : ‘Have you your torch, *Sung*?’
FSJ.448 : Long John began to *sing* that song I knew so well:
G0Y.3280 : When it *sings* and blossoms in the spring it is not happy; it merely does what its genes tell it to do.
G12.542 : Old Mike Ramsden got out his guitar and *sang* old Tom Lehrer songs.
G1Y.1180 : After supper the ladies *sung* Erse songs, to which I listened as an English audience to an Italian opera, delighted with the sound of words which I did not understand.’
G2E.2341 : After dinner, guests drifted up the steep basement stairs to the Bechstein in the drawing room to sing: at the last party I was at, Lennox Berkeley's contemporaries, many in their eighties, and friends of their three sons, *sang* tunes like ‘A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square’ and ‘Tea for Two’.
GUH.697 : And in the same year the First Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure partes of the greatest of all English lutenists, John Dowland (1563–1626), was printed ‘with Tableture for the Lute: So made that all the parts together, or either of them severally may be song to the Lute, Orpherian [a species of cittern, tuned like a lute] or Viol de Gambo’, a confused description which conceals the condition that the highest part must be *sung*.
GUW.619 : Even in Lancashire, where in Blackburn, Preston and Burnley as many as one-third of women continued to work after marriage, the Cotton Factory Times could print a piece of verse which to all intents and purposes ignored married women's double role: ‘How Sweet it is when toil is o'er/To sit upon the hearth once more/To whistle, *sing* and sweet converse/With the sweetest queen in universe/In homely way’.
GUX.1559 : Davide sighed; with Tommaso Talvi he had been hungry for experience, but now, he wondered what had impelled him then to want so much, everything, travel, influence, money, work, before he had ever touched a woman; when now he *sang* arias of extreme emotion, when he grieved and sobbed his passion in La Forza and Boccanegra and La Traviata , he thought of young men in the future bursting their hearts for his daughters.
GVT.2609 : They were *singing* and clapping to the rhythm.
H7E.521 : So she had *singing* lessons, and both Eva and Margaret learnt the art of speech and drama from a Mrs Rickwood.
H86.3233 : D'you think when The Bomber came down it just killed twenty people and left the rest of us drinking Korn and *singing* fal-lal-lal?
H8M.617 : But I stay out there *singing* some made-up song that goes with the waves crunching on the shingle, so she tosses stones in the water to plop near me in the darkness and I shout like an idiot and run back to the shore.
HH8.585 : It was totally tranquil, utterly serene, stamped with an ageless certainty and stability, and, for the first time, Sabine realised what poets had meant when they *sang* of ‘La Douce France’. 
HJ3.7243 : She said: ‘I got started *singing* and playing the accordion when I was three every Italian girl with an Italian father in America played the accordion.
HL7.205 : In an attempt to defuse the protests Roh dismissed his Minister for Home Affairs, Ahn Eung Mo, on April 27 and replaced him with Lee *Sang* Yeon.
HPK.466 : A function room, especially if granted a licence for music, *singing* and dancing could lead to late night activity and noise to the detriment of neighbouring residents.
HR8.1698 : It was a song Mr Malik sang, and she was *singing* it to what must, surely, be his words.
HRF.936 : During the 1967 San Francisco Film Festival, Crawford met Gene Kelly, the song-and-dance maestro who had himself been a hit on the Broadway stage before starring in film musicals such as *Singing* In the Rain.
HTU.1599 : Make it look like you're *singing* along.’
HTY.128 : Shouting, arguments and a young woman *singing* ‘Daisy’.
J19.1304 : Apparently Hanna Brunner has offered to come forward and give evidence in court about your behaviour to your fellow artistes, and Hans has said he is making it plain to all the other agents that none of his clients will be allowed to *sing* in Hochhauser and he recommends that they do the same.’
J1A.178 : It is not true that they beat time without obeying it, since choruses [at the Opéra] are often *sung* perfectly.
J1A.383 : It is not inconceivable that the parts were doubled, thus involving six players, and perhaps a bassoon played the bass line while Hymen *sang*.
J55.589 : And though the wOmen's quartet in Grimes is a quartet of voices, it is more often in three-part counterpoint because the Nieces *sing* in unison in the refrain.
JY5.1035 : ‘But he wants you all to himself — and he's found the best way to do that is to take away the pleasure you find in *singing*.
JYF.977 : ‘*Sing*, no,’ he answered.
K2A.380 : Jackson's pop *singing* sister Latoya was quoted on Friday as saying she had warned her brother months ago to end his friendships with young boys.
K52.8935 : Former Sunderland captain Charlie Hurley, who became a legend in his days at the club between 1957 and 1969, came to the telephone *singing*: ‘Howay the lads.
K5J.4562 : The campaign also will feature celebrities such as former Dallas Cowboys head coach Tom Landry *singing* soccer's praises.
K6K.210 : So you just kind of kept kept on *singing*, after the choir and that finished?
K8S.145 : He stood quivering to the gradations of light that *sang* in the roof, and did not know what it was that moved him so, the hour, or the true beauty of the proportions and spaces about him, or the marvellous and frightening sense of having drawn so close to the spring of his own being.
K91.261 : You went into the assault *singing* the Marseillaise; it was magnificent.
K95.1133 : From the high-stemmed poop of a Genoese cog, a boy *sang* a hymn to the Virgin in thanksgiving for the change in the weather whilst sailors in a Greek galley chanted their prayer for mercy: ‘Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison, Kyrie Eleison.’
K9X.547 : *Singing*
KB5.298 : *Singing* 
KBA.286 : Why don't you *sing* nanny your .
KBC.3067 : He is *singing*. 
KBF.10855 : Well she can either sing in it play the organ, *sing* in it and tape it as well.
KBG.3391 : But you sang togeth you s complemented each other when you *sang* well together didn't you? 
KBG.4496 : Go on then, you can carry on *singing* but you're a bit late. 
KBN.916 : Can I *sing* a song on it?
KC2.3345 : like David Bowie will sing with them and everybody will take a turn singing with them, like that, that woman that *sing* that Barcelona you know, er whatever her name is I suppose she'll, she'll sing at erm, er and somebody else might sing that Barcelona you know that one
KCT.13539 : Well you'll *singing* 
KD1.4919 : Oh well as we don't know any of them, we'd better not *sing* them had we?
KDA.3769 : Don't worry about me I'm *singing* mate. 
KE1.4 : I haven't got him *singing* it.
KGH.1003 : Er because having written half the songs as well, the lyrics all mean something so I may as well have spoken them as *sung* them.
KP3.825 : Does anyone else wanna *sing*? 
KP6.1849 : Why not? what they're *singing*?
KPG.234 : Can, can we *sing* our song?
KPG.2194 : In heaven we are *singing*. 
KPG.5922 : We *sang* Supercala and we've got we got and no, and we've got, we've got, and we've got her biggest word on here.