Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives . |
| 2 | She said they were taken off waiting list after applying to take over the tenancy at Heydean Road in 1954 . |
| 3 | They were taken off after applying to take over the tenancy at Heydean Road in 1954 . |
| 4 | The ability of each group to fight alongside the other ( something which depended upon a very disciplined approach ) was undoubtedly one of the main tactical developments of the fourteenth century , and was to play an important part in helping bring about a succession of English victories in battle . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm helping to set out the stalls for the hospital bazaar — should be back about midday , ’ she called , as she let herself out of the house . |
| 6 | Here , too , though we are not looking to carve up the territory between us a degree of competition never does any harm we should at least be getting together to think out how best to collaborate in the future . |
| 7 | In connection with the role you have asked me to undertake in the dispute between Mr D Smith and the other directors of and shareholders in Smith & Co Limited , I am writing to set out the nature of the responsibilities which you wish me to perform . |
| 8 | On December 12th Mr Vicari called for an extraordinary general meeting to clear up the uncertainty over the firm 's future . |
| 9 | His first objective was to restore the authority of Soviet socialism by economic reform and political democratisation ; the second , much more ambitious objective was to reposition Soviet communism in relation to the European tradition from which it had originally emerged , seeking to build up a coalition of working class , religious , ecological , youth and other forces which could unite around the slogan of peace and social justice , if not necessarily Marxism-Leninism . |
| 10 | The reason for this is that as the core begins to saturate , the voltage available for saturation falls , tending to slow down the approach to saturation . |
| 11 | Established firms are tending to scoop up the talent in the market which is still in second-tier houses — without which they will not survive . |
| 12 | To get maximum benefit in making your diet easy , speedy and healthy , obtain your dietary fibre from a wide range of cereal , fruit and vegetable foods rather than seeking to make up the total from just one or two very fibre-rich foods . |
| 13 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |
| 14 | Thus , governments are endlessly seeking to shore up the erosion of the national idea which a world economy inflicts upon them . |
| 15 | It is a completely unfounded fear , but even if there were the odd few cases of people refusing to rent out a room in their home because , in their ignorance , they felt that , as landlords , they would be penalised , are we seriously to argue that we should deny the discount to the other 7 million people ? |
| 16 | Yes I am the outcome of it all is that she 's waiting on the wall , getting piles and I 'm going to go down the shop with her . |
| 17 | I 'm going to spell out a warning to the aeroplane pilot by making you all into letters . |
| 18 | Tell your audience that you are going to spell out the names of a complete suit of cards and , each time you spell out a letter , you are going to take the top card and place it on the bottom . |
| 19 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 20 | Benny was n't going to pass up an opportunity like this . |
| 21 | So Alexander left the surgery determined that he , himself , was going to find out the solution to his curious problem . |
| 22 | And if there 's no money in it for me I 'm not gon na give priority to going picking up a piece of wood for a customer . |
| 23 | So I 've got to ring Phil and see what time he 's going to pick up the freezer in the morning ? |
| 24 | Mierle Laderman Ukele proposed an exhibition about maintenance called Care in 1969 : ‘ After the revolution who 's going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning ? ’ |
| 25 | Then say that you are going to pick up the cards in any order , which you do keeping the pairs together . |
| 26 | Paragraph 29 of the statement of claim alleges that the third and fourth defendants and through them , the fifth defendant were ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in the breaches of section 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 in four specified respects , namely , ( i ) in authorising the transfer of a sum of U.S. $250,000 out of an account in the name of the second defendant into which investors ' money had been paid ; ( ii ) in making arrangements during the postal strike in September 1988 for the collection from investors of their cheques and for the distribution of advertisements inviting investment in Euramco ; ( iii ) in paying investors ' cheques into Pantell S.A. 's bank account ; and ( iv ) in attempting to set up an account at Barclays Bank 's Holborn branch for another company , also called Pantell S.A. |
| 27 | Before attempting to set out an approach to disruptive pupils , I believe it is important to preface the debate with a general comment on education — first , because the nature of the topic can generate emotions that lead to a distortion of the author 's overall perspective , and second , while I am critical of many educational responses to disruptive pupils I do not wish to add to teachers ' feelings of being under siege . |
| 28 | Behind the tarpaulin there were tables and chairs for the RCM workers , mostly , as an American journalist noticed , elegantly turned-out young ladies who looked ‘ a good deal more like a junior league committee getting together to discuss a costume ball than officials waiting to sort out a trainload of Jewish refugee children ’ . |
| 29 | I would stand on the doorstep waiting to pick up the children with my ex-wife sneering at me . |
| 30 | Yes , we 're going to open up a resort on Mars . |