Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And containing it is extremely expensive and I personally feel that it 's wrong to expect the community at large to go on paying week after week , month after month , year after year er in order to contain a problem which through no fault of its own belongs to the soccer . |
| 2 | Noise , severance , domination — transport fastest growing source of greenhouse gases . |
| 3 | One ‘ just stands there washing plate after plate ’ , or ‘ it just tires one out ’ . |
| 4 | Surely they 'd do better making love on board Grace than on a few yards of Mackenzie tartan ? |
| 5 | I 've always enjoyed teaching , it 's something which I feel is very important for somebody who 's a historian , I do n't like just doing research without communicating . |
| 6 | The only reference point to give us a sense of our height was the tiny boat on the beach beneath us , with the two fishermen , who had not only declined to follow us up the crater , but also expressed an urgent desire to avoid even setting foot on shore . |
| 7 | At one time , when I was touring in the theatre , I can remember simply having tea for breakfast and then going the whole day with nothing , then a tiny snack in the evening . |
| 8 | But it did not rule out taking milk from Milk Marque , the proposed replacement for the English and Welsh Milk Marketing Board , or from other co-operatives . |
| 9 | Similarly , the Department of Social Work 's guidelines for employees in handling violence and aggressive behaviour by clients or members of the public will be revised periodically having regard to service development and other relevant sources of information . |
| 10 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 11 | Key Points : Pull the board close to you by using the back foot ; maintain an upright rig ; kick hard with the front foot ; lean forwards applying weight to mast foot . |
| 12 | With no reason to suppose he was anybody but a Greek-Cypriot , they would go on talking business in Arabic , and Taxi George would time their cab ride according to the intelligence value of their conversation . |
| 13 | He had practically no money left in the world , but he went on drinking champagne on credit . |
| 14 | Ask the person whether they already eat enough fibre and encourage them to eat more if necessary — and this does n't mean just putting bran on cereal at breakfast . |
| 15 | I 'll speak to the owners first but there is a possibility I might end up withdrawing Cab on Target . ’ |
| 16 | Erm asks for an indication of whether you are likely to be taking up teaching service after retirement . |
| 17 | Morel , a shipping clerk who had taken up campaigning journalism on behalf of Liverpool 's African merchant interests , set up the Congo Reform Association in 1903 , following his success in persuading the Government to issue a formal protest about the brutal regime of forced labour exercised by the Belgian King , Leopold , in the Congo . |
| 18 | Normally , CGA can resolve 640 by 200 but on the Zenith it runs at 640 by 400 , which gives nice looking text in Text mode . |
| 19 | Even for the pushiest But I mean , they 've they were owing money years ago , they sort of said there having Christmas on Access . |