Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was hard in way handing over to the Prince of Wales Own Regiment — you wanted to carry helping to get aid through to people who so desperately needed it . |
| 2 | Joined using binding off , a welt knitted separately should feel the same in wear as a welt knitted at the same time as the garment piece . |
| 3 | The truth acquired a logic and an ordinariness , until in the end her blindness to it in the past became puzzling to comprehend . |
| 4 | Doctor Ryding 's passport bears witness to the thousands of miles he 's travelled helping to save lives for the red cross . |
| 5 | I got shoppin' to do . ’ |
| 6 | Adopting the ‘ method of science ’ involves resolving to use whatever rules can be justified by reference to the hypothesis of reality . |
| 7 | It generally aids understanding to use short rather than long words . |
| 8 | Mr Anderson also admitted checking to see if the woman had a police record . |
| 9 | She goes walking does n't she ? |
| 10 | His advice was that for the committee to continue trading knowing in advance that we would be running at a loss would leave members open to a charge of wrongful trading . |
| 11 | Adequate insurance cover gives you the peace of mind of knowing that your business 's ability to continue trading has been preserved , and that the personal assets of directors are not at risk . |
| 12 | And then she starts demanding to know what they 're going to do and he keeps saying they 're gon na write , they 're gon na write , they 're gon na write . |
| 13 | Before such Big Events , the horse needs handling to increase its tolerance and confidence for such an occasion . |
| 14 | He 'll need encouraging to do it . |
| 15 | You may find the patient has little interest in food , so he may need encouraging to eat a little at a time . |
| 16 | He stopped eating to grin at me . |
| 17 | never , never stopped eating eating and drinking . |
| 18 | Branson understood media manipulation as well as anybody , and had much enjoyed helping to orchestrate the on-going controversy around the Sex Pistols once they had signed to Virgin . |
| 19 | Considering he was four over par after the first three holes of the New Orleans tournament , Faldo 's 11 under for the remaining 69 on a course he found demanding looks a useful dress rehearsal for the first of the year 's majors . |
| 20 | He may need counselling to overcome the trauma in the future . |
| 21 | My friend uses Pagemaker 4 and Windows Write and wants to know if it 's possible to get hold of Portuguese and German spell checkers to use with letters and documents created using Write . |
| 22 | In all this , we need to have the goal of enabling prophesying to mature . |
| 23 | This can include walking to work or to the shops , jogging , skipping , swimming or dancing . |
| 24 | Whereas our house badly needs painting does n't it ? |
| 25 | Last week a Department of Environment inspector heard a planning appeal seeking to change it into a nursing home . |
| 26 | At this stage I stopped searching to have a little think . |
| 27 | He had been keeping a wary eye on Jacques Devraux while he made another laborious copy of the revolutionary tract and he stopped writing to watch the Frenchman walk back to his own quarters . |
| 28 | As a practice grows its structure will need formalising to facilitate proper control . |
| 29 | This is an important issue which needs addressing given that commissioning authorities are not particularly accountable to the public and that an increasing proportion of purchasing power has devolved to general practitioner fundholders , who are not necessarily geographically distributed in proportion to need . |
| 30 | But he ca n't spend the rest of his life waiting , he needs pushing to get him to live again . |