Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In some areas we are already competing for that work ’ . |
| 2 | And if we did spent twelve hundred pounds on an aeroplane and came back with fifty million pounds worth of grants , I 'm not apologising for that . |
| 3 | I was amazed during a recent visit to headquarters of the number of requests for posters and tickets I saw when I was leafing through that bible , the design it file . |
| 4 | One type of authoritarian rule had been followed by another , not allowing for that kind of unsettling liberalization which is so conducive to uprisings among minorities . |
| 5 | ‘ Even allowing for that , it 's well down , Vic . |
| 6 | But even allowing for that trait of nature , the number of occasions on which both Conservatives and Labour politicians have told me they are doing better than the polls say is now large enough to make me sniff the air suspiciously . |
| 7 | Again , in the trading check example above there is the matter of weekly collection : allowing for that puts the 66 per cent rate of charge on 21-week repayment in a different light — expensive , certainly , but not extortionate . |
| 8 | She was a good twelve years older than me , but allowing for that , I 'd seen myself look not much better some mornings in the last few months , my skin blotchy , my eyes shadowed and swollen , my lips pale and dry-looking , my hair lifeless and uncombed . |
| 9 | But , even allowing for that , Charles reckoned they were enjoying it . |
| 10 | ‘ We do not believe that the child made this up , but even allowing for that possibility , the question why must be answered and for that Mr Allen will always be culpable , ’ the statement from the lawyer , Eleanor Alter said . |
| 11 | ‘ When you started prattling about that man I sometimes saw here before I ever went up to Oxford , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Relatively little is known about such people , although in oral evidence to the House of Commons Health Committee the head of medical statistics at the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys remarked that ‘ one of the things that people are now suggesting about that other group who do not have an occupation is that they are forming … an under class . ’ |
| 13 | He was hanging off that red ball for a four hundred at the end though cos |
| 14 | No they 're the twins that were hanging off that young girl were n't they ? |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ said the executive , ‘ if things keep going on the way they are , I 'll be there some day catching for that guy and I want to make sure I know his curves . ’ |
| 16 | You 're coming over so that we can discuss the demand that the women 's movement is making for free contraception and abortion on demand , and the strategy that our local women 's group might develop in struggling for that at a local level , how we relate to other women and groups of women in the area , how the abortion issue relates to other ones . |
| 17 | Anyway seeing about that Steve . |
| 18 | Her heart was still thumping after that disturbing scene with Julius , her skin was hot and clammy , and her eyes overbright . |
| 19 | Anyway , I do n't feel like eating after that enormous lunch . " |
| 20 | She followed him numbly , still praying for that elusive miracle as they went into the staff rest-room and collected two cups of coffee and then out again , back down the corridor to the consultant 's room — his room . |
| 21 | ‘ Right , ’ he says , ‘ a nice cup of tea , I was dying for that , what can I do for you ? ’ . |
| 22 | The sacrifice comes in dying for that valued person or thing . |
| 23 | What 's happening about that boy ? ’ |
| 24 | What 's happening about that ? |
| 25 | I remember having some trouble not laughing during that scene . |
| 26 | that 's , that 's the other thing when there 's only two of you involved and you , we were opening for that first sort of eighteen months five , six days a week just keeping on top of a day to day business does n't allow you to sit back |
| 27 | By the way , friendly , protective neighbours are absolutely invaluable and well worth cultivating for that reason if no other . |
| 28 | The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period . |
| 29 | Picture a beautiful scene — whatever kind of landscape pleases you the most — and imagine that you are walking through that place . |
| 30 | Basically interviewers are hoping that the answer to all their prayers is going to come walking through that door . |