Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I mean for me I I 've gone beyond hoping in a way I mean it 's just a question of keeping going from week to week and I do n't know how to measure success .
2 She lives moving from house to house to keep the security forces off her tracks , " Now my home is here with the Committee " , she explained .
3 Other topics might include moving from practice into industry , part-time working or going back to work full time while caring for a young family .
4 I was quite impressed with his pace and he never stopped trying from start to finish .
5 For more permanent fixing use glued paper tape which needs moistening with water before application
6 LEPINE POINTS the Sturm-Ruger , and starts shooting from left to right at the assembled women .
7 A survey of welfare spending by all private firms conducted by the Ministry of Labour in 1975 estimated that such payments yielded benefits equivalent to 10–15 per cent of annual earnings , but did not distinguish very clearly how this differs according to size of firm .
8 Attitudes towards professional development are also differentiated according to length of teaching experience .
9 A queue is a sequence of individuals , arranged according to time of arrival , and not according to size or strength , such that the first in the queue has prior access to some resource .
10 WILLIAMS is seen asking for assistance from LADY JONES and LORD DARNFORD . ]
11 Light was admitted during the daytime through the long framed windows fitted with moulded glass , which could be seen stretching from end to end of the van under the cornice .
12 There we found Capt. Warr and party , all very tired and fatigued owing to lack of food and water for four days .
13 Fear owing to miscarriage of plan , only forty aircraft and some transport destroyed to date .
14 The data in Table 14 , which classify percentages of pregnancies that ended in still births by length of preceding pregnancy interval pooled according to country of study , seem to confirm the validity of the Hungarian findings for developing countries .
15 For the most part , the fast men were used in short bursts to conserve their strength and responded well to this ; but when the occasion demanded , as on the final day at Lord 's in 1963 , they could keep going for hour after hour just because the captain asked them to .
16 In fact , only one serious relationship lay behind her , with a Wellington actor who read news bulletins in order to eat , and it had died owing to lack of feeling , disappointing them both at the time , but Maria had philosophically absorbed the lesson at the heart of the sad experience .
17 Why do you keep rushing from room to room ? ’
18 Furthermore , I am hypothesising that , on occasions , they collectively develop shared myths to account to themselves how they relate politically to each other in their different roles within the complex organization of a business enterprise and so give meaning to life at work .
19 They heard firing from time to time and at one point were challenged .
20 I remember sneaking from school to watch old Titford 's funeral procession and standing under the chestnut trees and thinking how beautiful the singing in church sounded .
21 The same cat enjoyed jumping from chair to chair when his owner pointed at each in turn .
22 If you like thinking about capacity for information storage ( I do ) , you can imagine the enormous number of different patterns of flaws that could be created over the surface of a crystal .
23 The advice on how to put planning for development into practice can be supported by the experiences shared by the Council and a number of bodies over the last three years .
24 Concentrated listening involves focusing on tone of voice , facial expression and body language as well as the words used .
25 If you wanted to know the answer , and if you also wanted to listen to Messrs Major , Kinnock and Ashdown , you had to keep zapping from channel to channel .
26 Other drivers described how the Metro overtook a caravan and then started weaving from side to side .
27 Did you check their tenancy agreement , because it was a pretty Machiavellian , Dickensian tenancy agreement , if you 're found smoking in bed for example , you were out the next morning , those sort of things , and I think you really ought to look at that very carefully .
28 In our particular ministry in St Louis Missouri we are trying to use the vast technology that 's available to us in linking up with other organizations such as Catholic charities , Salvation Army and others , so that when persons are in need of help they can go to one organization and tell their story and they do n't have to keep going from place to place telling their story over and over and we 're beginning to look toward the use of computers and what they are capable of doing in order to help resources stretch .
29 We have to keep moving from house to house , because nowhere is safe .
30 If flying across country is not practical and you are local soaring , it is better to practise moving from cloud to cloud or thermal to thermal without taking the climbs to any great height .
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