Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , when I came closest to watching my own slow death from septicaemia after a motorbike accident , and Western medicines had ceased to work , I was nursed back to health by their healers . |
| 2 | In our main 1979 survey , we asked people which of four statements came closest to describing their own feelings about credit . |
| 3 | As she left she said I 'm looking forward to seeing you all in about six weeks . |
| 4 | Looking forward to seeing you this coming weekend , |
| 5 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 6 | She told me she was looking forward to controlling her own home and her own destiny . ’ |
| 7 | He had been looking forward to showing it all to her . |
| 8 | He was looking forward to spelling it all out to Jacqui and Joanne . |
| 9 | They were looking forward to tilling their own fields in a land of plenty . |
| 10 | Dr Neil turned away from inspecting his own bookshelves , said , apropos of what she could not imagine , ‘ You are not English , I perceive , Miss McAllister . ’ |
| 11 | We look forward to seeing you all at our wedding , and later to welcoming you to dinner in our new home . |
| 12 | I look forward to seeing you all again . |
| 13 | I wish you well for the remainder of the holidays and look forward to seeing you all again at our Qualified Teachers days . |
| 14 | I wish you well for the remainder of the holidays and look forward to seeing you all again at our Qualified Teachers days . |
| 15 | We look forward to telling you all about them ! |
| 16 | ‘ Those who desire to win the favour of princes generally endeavour to do so by offering them those things which they themselves prize most , or such as they observe the prince to delight in most . ’ |
| 17 | On royal orders , the towns were directed to see to their defences , and they had to do so by finding their own sources of finance through local effort . |
| 18 | Do n't be put off by the delicate appearance of this cake , but do allow plenty of time for the separate pieces of icing to harden well before assembling them all together . |
| 19 | It is small wonder that Darwin thought twice about threatening his own privileged position by identifying himself with a new twist on this old theme . |
| 20 | Indeed , she told me that she looked forward to practising them each evening as it formed such a peaceful interlude in her anxious life . |
| 21 | ‘ If Harry got there , ’ the old man said , ‘ then he got there by finding his own path . |
| 22 | In this way , Hammer became a victim of its own phenomenal success , always going for the big thrills and unable to get away with offering anything less than what was expected from a ‘ Hammer ’ film . |
| 23 | Concentrate instead on studying your own behaviour , your interactions with your environment ; by working on external factors in this way you will be able to work out practical strategies to succeed , and strong will-power will appear to come about automatically without you having to work on it directly . |
| 24 | Roman kissed her deeply , murmuring comfortingly before taking them both to heights that owed more to heaven than to earth . |
| 25 | But few expect the incumbent Mr Dinkins to say much about slimming his own government . |
| 26 | The first is to allow individuals to act alone in planning their own lives ; people should be allowed to capitalize part of the value of their national insurance benefits . |
| 27 | If you go to a house and you realize that it 's only a very small house and it 's a very big van you 'll only pack it up that way because you 're packing faster by doing it that way . |