Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | interact positively with other group members in an increasingly wide range of situations , eg collaborating on an assignment where a specific outcome is required ; |
| 2 | When Robert Layton , from Leominster in Herefordshire , takes off for Portugal on Saturday , he 'll be literally flying on a wing and a prayer , a wing of nylon and a prayer for good weather . |
| 3 | We 're looking down here , obviously standing on a hill because here we 've got some plants which are on the hillside and there 's a river here so we 're on sort of a fairly steep slope , I would imagine , down to the river , looking over across these vineyards . |
| 4 | A taxi firm run by women for women says it plans to carry on operating despite a ruling that such services discriminate against men . |
| 5 | It also allows the police and Customs to permit accountants to go on acting for a client after they have disclosed suspicious activity to them . |
| 6 | I am not suggesting for a moment that this kind of problem can be resolved merely by putting more resources in , but at the same time there is need to spend more money , perhaps . |
| 7 | Stephen 's problem , in short , was that he was not living as a son but as a slave in bondage to fear . |
| 8 | In this context we may well ask whether we are not living in an age when God is judging our Western civilisation — whether the inflation of the Western world is a judgment on materialism , or the rising unemployment a judgment on militant trade unionism or the crisis of capitalism a judgment on the secular humanism of our age . |
| 9 | Private cars are not permitted to use the access road and indeed can not cross via the pedestrian ferry , but in summer months a minibus takes visitors from the ferry to the lighthouse , a service not operating to a timetable and needing to be confirmed by advance enquiry . |
| 10 | The showmen created an entertainment and annexed an audience in a spectacular initial burst , but , of course , they were not operating in a vacuum and there was one major hurdle that had to be overcome before their victory could be regarded as complete and of permanent rather than fleeting significance . |
| 11 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 12 | She noted the flicker of a smile as he came into the kitchen and poured himself a cup of coffee , but she ignored him , turning her back as she scanned the phone book , desperately hunting for a garage that was reasonably near to this god-forsaken place . |
| 13 | It is already leading to a resumption or the land improvement work carried out by the crofters in the sixties , with the help of the College of Agriculture and the Crofters Commission , working closely together . |
| 14 | Understandably , despite such possible complexity , the purchaser will not be interested in the legal semantics of how the contracts are to be transferred but will be interested in two main practical concerns : firstly , in receiving the benefit of the contracts in return for performing the burden and secondly , in not paying for a contract if the purchaser can not benefit from it . |
| 15 | I mean you get people like that , they 're not going onto a site and pay out money , it 's just ridiculous . |
| 16 | you know , cos we were all single I think all of us were and we were just going for a joke cos seriously it 's just a cattle market at you know you do n't talk to people well you do but it 's just a laugh . |
| 17 | I remember driving down to Leith on that Friday night , and just going for a walk and thinking that the next time the sun came up I would be playing at Murrayfield . |
| 18 | The Special Commission ‘ encouraged the Central Authorities to serve extrajudicial documents not emanating from an authority or from a judicial officer if these documents were of a type which normally would call for the intervention of an authority in their countries ’ , a striking example of the generous approach taken in operating this Convention . |
| 19 | It 's much easier just belonging to a club and not having |
| 20 | I mean I 'm speaking as a political animal because I watch all the television , I mean I take my wireless to bed and listen to the actually I was listening to the wireless at erm half past eleven when they started it , so I 'm not speaking as a person that sort of does n't watch or listen to the Gulf business , but I think it 's erm on too much . |
| 21 | for the ne , in time for the next meeting , erm there was , what 's full name for er not sending in a return or couple of returns erm at the last meeting and I 've dealt with that and sent them off , have they sent you anything else ? |
| 22 | The limousine was finally slowing to a halt and they scrambled for their shoes . |
| 23 | After a decade of being made to feel that you were somehow lacking as a person if you did n't manage to cram thrice-weekly workouts into your schedule , it was high time that a good reason not to exercise emerged . |
| 24 | No , I 'm not breaking into an apple if you have n't finished your yoghurt |
| 25 | In a more complex case I might sit in on a discussion within a committee but begin to consider that it is not moving in a direction that suits me . |
| 26 | I 'm not doing without a holiday because I 'm feeling hard up though , but because I do n't particularly want one . ’ |
| 27 | I was not asking for a debate and I want to make that quite clear . |
| 28 | Thank you , ’ and turning about , she went out , not running like a child but walking sedately . |
| 29 | There is a legal ‘ chasm ’ between , for example , not entering into a contract and breach of an existing contract , which will not easily be bridged . |
| 30 | To be involved in Earth Mysteries is much more than just reading in an armchair or researching in the library : it means going out and becoming part of the landscape . |