Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [v-ing] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But subjects that experienced a reminder treatment ( unsignalled foot-shocks given in a different apparatus ) between the conditioning trials and the test session showed almost as much conditioned responding as control subjects that had not been pre-exposed to the noise .
2 He could not help thinking that Eleanor Fuller might have had something to do with the mischief-making .
3 It hardly needs saying that Dame Joan is a virtuoso .
4 Its activities have since increased substantially to include telecasting and communication training .
5 what it might have done is that probably did n't need doing because Mouse Com was probably already fixed and now we 're unfixing it ?
6 Even as he thought it , he could n't help remembering that West End stars tended to be paid a bit more than he was getting with his humble understudy-plus-supplement deal .
7 You ca n't help thinking that Emo Philips has been a bit unlucky .
8 It seemed rather typical of her luck that she had ended up with the wrong sort of cat , and she could n't help wondering if Miss Hardbroom had made sure that the misfit kitten had been given to Mildred , rather than someone like Ethel .
9 The clay is separated from the matrix in which it occurs by washing it out , using high pressure ‘ monitors ’ , much like water cannons , then employing settling and flotation techniques .
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