Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't believe it , and even after trying to zap away a monster of a hang-over with a can of Lucozade Sport and 4 cups of coffee I still ca n't believe it . |
| 2 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 3 | They 've been taken as typical of the senior editors and right across every function area is is covered by that and I 've got erm sample job descriptions for all the editorial levels and I can get them for any other secretarial levels or design and I can acquire those if you want to see what has been done in terms of trying to draw up a framework , you know , that kind of thing . |
| 4 | This left de Gaulle in the impossible situation of trying to keep up a wartime psychology , while the French people wanted to live a peacetime existence . |
| 5 | I was sort of trying to figure out a way to weasel out of re-releasing it . ’ |
| 6 | Insp Cammish said : ‘ We went through the usual practice of trying to strike up a rapport with the person and gain a genuine sort of confidence . ’ |
| 7 | Members of the resident stage crew wandered round , looking at their watches and making dark remarks about amateurism and provincial rep. and the folly of trying to bring in a show so quickly and the unlikelihood of its being presentable in time for the Monday night preview . |
| 8 | It was like waiting to jump off a cliff — and then , not jumping . |
| 9 | THE Commander of a US Air Force base in Britain has been reprimanded by the Ministry of Defence for failing to hand over a rape suspect to British police , trying him instead at a court martial . |
| 10 | We shall now try to categorize these formal links and then examine how far they will go in helping to explain why a succession of sentences is discourse , and not just a disconnected jumble . |
| 11 | Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal . |
| 12 | Linda describes the details of their daily lives , the problems that arose in trying to set up a network of support that was sufficient , stable and yet not undermining of the women 's growing independence , and the different reactions of Elizabeth and Helen to their new life . |
| 13 | The other major problem the region faced in trying to put together a strategy was that neither of the managing districts was actually convinced that it was feasible to provide a service completely devolved from the large hospitals . |
| 14 | He also objected to having to tone down a description of the 1937 Rape of Nanking , when Japanese troops went on the rampage , killing tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and prisoners . |
| 15 | An EC life insurer can now provide insurance in other member states without having to set up a branch or agency in those other states , according to the Insurance Companies ( Amendment ) Regulations 1993 which came into force on 20 May 1993 , giving effect to the Second Life Insurance Directive ( 90/619/EEC ) of 8 November 1990 . |
| 16 | Secondly , people will be paid automatically without having to fill in a claim form or other kind of document . |
| 17 | A party , can present a list without having to put up a candidate in every or indeed in any constituency . |
| 18 | Perhaps that was why he had embarked , without capital , on trying to put up a building , though god knows this would have no long life in Manhattan . |
| 19 | The Jockey Club believes that in the long term Sunday racing without cash betting is impractical and it is resigned to trying to bring about a change in the legislation by a private members ' bill . |
| 20 | Nicky Mohan will miss the opening game of the Premier League after being sent off at Molineux after being sent off for trying to break up a fight ! |
| 21 | A few weeks on the job and the Santa Cruz Operation Inc 's new boss Lars Turndal is talking about trying to figure out a way to change the company 's ‘ old-fashioned distribution model ’ without rocking the boat . |
| 22 | He conceded he was taking a risk by refusing to prop up a minority government without a commitment to PR . |