Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Report back about being aggressive and we 'd like you to report back modelling an aggressive style , yeah ? |
| 2 | They were glad to see it , as they had packed some food in one of the suitcases , and directly the porter had gone they set about preparing a meal . |
| 3 | I shuddered , the very thought of anyone being so foolish baffled me , the steps were so rotten that it would n't have taken any weight to have snapped them and sent anyone plunging down causing a bad injury . |
| 4 | ‘ They defused the first two and had three attempts at the third , but on the third attempt it blew up killing a major and his assistant lost his right arm when a hatch-door blew off . ’ |
| 5 | How do I go about obtaining a licence to do this ? |
| 6 | How did you go about finding a job ? |
| 7 | So , how do you go about choosing a bureau ? |
| 8 | How do you go about making a will ? |
| 9 | How do you go about painting a canvas ? |
| 10 | How , he wondered , did one set about finding a woman , last heard of in Cornwall , whose surname was Carrow — that is , if she had n't remarried — and a child who he supposed must be getting on for four . |
| 11 | How on earth does one set about devising a convincing measure of something as impalpable , though nevertheless real , as the degree of trades union militancy ? |
| 12 | So how does one go about becoming a more positive person ? |
| 13 | To state the problem ( that is to say the intellectual problem we have set for ourselves ) in a way which enables us to go about finding a solution is not easy . |