Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That sixties period and all the stories from the era were to play a massive role in Morrissey 's subsequent lyricism and his handling of The Smiths record sleeves : the stories , the Moors murders , Viv ( Spend , Spend , Spend ) Nicholson , Elsie Tanner ( the perfect Northern character so desperately attempting to escape to a better lifestyle ) , the stream of sixties Northern imagery films ( from The Family Way through Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to The Lovers ) and the countless left-overs from the Merseybeat era now parading their former moments of glory around working men 's clubs . |
| 2 | Washington had first seen the attractions of open land when working as a surveyor along a line running north-west to the Ohio valley and Lake Erie , and he could reckon that his survey was not going to remain as a simple tribute to the government 's desire for information . |
| 3 | Obviously I do n't want a wife of Peter 's around the place if she 's not going to behave in a civil manner to me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We are not going to do without a great car economy , ’ declared Margaret Thatcher in March 1990 in the course of dismissing ‘ airy-fairy ’ green ideas about a return to village life . |
| 5 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 6 | Even if you are not going to apply for a Legal Aid franchise , membership of the panel will be important for anyone putting themselves forward as a personal injury specialist ( see Appendix 2A for the Personal Injury Panel criteria ) . |
| 7 | If the candidate replies that she/he helped run a youth club in the town where she/he lived before you can be reasonably sure that a large number of young people is not going to come as a strange new experience . |
| 8 | I am not going to bother with a certain group . |
| 9 | I tell you I 'm not going to look like a bloody scruff at work . |
| 10 | Further afield , the Indian National Congress was already beginning to grope towards a national identity , as was the Sarekat Islam in the great Dutch empire of the East Indies . |
| 11 | After I 'd persuaded Hawkbit here to join us , I was just starting to talk to a few more , when I found that Toadflax fellow had followed me down the run . |
| 12 | If you listened Mark without interrupting , I was just about to say I 'm not trying to convert into a better way of doing things because obviously I do n't know whether that 's a different , a better way of doing it , what I said It 's a just a |
| 13 | It is hard to find a more pitiful sight than a clownfish desperately trying to associate with a shrunken unhealthy anemone a little larger than its own size . |
| 14 | I 'm just trying to think of a clearer economical way of putting it . |
| 15 | Yates is still struggling to recover from a serious knee operation that cost him his place as County were relegated and missed out on a lucrative ticket to the Premier League . |
| 16 | I have to admit that our company , among others , was heavily involved in lobbying parliament to have home taping covered by a blank tape levy in the 1988 Copyright Act . |
| 17 | One prominent cinema organist would completely lose control of his feet when attempting to record ; the violinist Bronislaw Huberman needed perfect quiet , and could even hear a typist operating six storeys away , but Jan Kubelik , though always needing to stand on a rubber mat , had possessed perfect studio concentration . |
| 18 | At the time , ScotRail was also attempting to get through a similar application for the junction at Westerton , outside Glasgow . |
| 19 | Instead of having three to look after I 'd probably end up having to look after a seven or eight . |
| 20 | The club is also offering to enter into a legal agreement with Braintree to end overflying of villages , limit membership to 200 , keep full records and liaise regularly with local councillors . |
| 21 | And finally , police in Edinburgh are urgently following leads on a major force operation … |
| 22 | Mr Price has also handed back 6.1million shares worth around £10million which TVS is now looking to place with a potential broadcasting partner . |
| 23 | Mr Price has also handed back 6.1million shares worth around £10million which TVS is now looking to place with a potential broadcasting partner . |
| 24 | Getting rid of me had proved too much for him and he was now trying to force through a muddled compromise . |
| 25 | But this is n't going to happen through a magical revolution . |
| 26 | She held on to a root that jutted out from the bank , clinging to it as long as she could , then letting go with a despairing moan and sinking , shoulder deep , in the water . |
| 27 | As any mother will tell you , it has n't been one jot less exhausting and emotionally draining to live with a morose , depressed , melodramatic , self-obsessed exam-taker this year than any other year . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're never going to rise in a Japanese company . ’ |