Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know specifically asking for a sleeping tablet . |
| 2 | Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’ |
| 3 | Although , if we wish to test the depth of these mid-Victorian fears and also to judge the constancy of the vocabularies of reaction , then we must edge back a few years to an episode that would bring back flogging as a judicial punishment almost as soon as it had been abolished . |
| 4 | The young office worker in a safe sedentary job may well take up rock-climbing as a dangerous , physically exacting antidote for the dull occupational part of his life . |
| 5 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 6 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 7 | Such groups may cohere together according to a wide variety of principles , e.g. by identification with a particular locality , a particular herd of livestock , a particular parcel of seed ( annually replaced ) , a particular lineage name transmitted from parent to child , and 50 on . |
| 8 | In Switzerland the gynaecologist would not let you put on too much weight because he was concerned that you 'd end up looking like an old cow and |
| 9 | I 'll end up talking to a blank space — as usual ! ’ |
| 10 | But once the defector has been squeezed dry of all useful information he will end up sitting in a bare office in Dzerzhinsky Square , the KGB headquarters , with nothing to do but sift through material from his country . |
| 11 | ‘ I never thought I 'd end up working for a bossy woman . ’ |
| 12 | Do n't stand there grinning like a stuck pig … tell us . |
| 13 | The effects of war , however , could also prove potentially damaging in a new way as England became more closely involved with the wider economy in western Europe ; a slump in exports , even if this were due to factors outside English control , could lead to domestic unemployment , and in the 1520s complaints were made about this in the textile areas of Suffolk ( Ch.4 ) . |
| 14 | Do I start tomorrow looking for a new paper , because the Echo ca n't be doing with a man who lacks the bloody human touch ? |
| 15 | It was not enough that Phoebe should turn up looking like a manual worker — ( 'But , for God 's sake , Maggie , I am a manual worker' ) — and wearing a button on her overalls which said ‘ This facility is under threat from rate-capping , ’ which made boys on buses make obscene jokes ; she also had to take on the maths teacher . |