Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 2 | They should not be clothed in sexual disguises with near-naked women pretending to sell everything but the product itself . |
| 3 | She gave a shaky laugh , wanting to add something to the effect that it was n't fear that drew people to Marc , but more like sheer charisma . |
| 4 | It 's no good looking at the cigars available and attempting to choose one on the basis of certain criteria . |
| 5 | A will have the statutory power of arrest it B was in fact attempting to steal something in the shed , or if A reasonably suspected him of being in the act of attempting to steal something in the shed . |
| 6 | A will have the statutory power of arrest it B was in fact attempting to steal something in the shed , or if A reasonably suspected him of being in the act of attempting to steal something in the shed . |
| 7 | IF ONE HAD been going to cast anyone in the title role of a movie called Little Big Man , there would not have been many actors in Hollywood one could have thought of besides Dustin Hoffman . |
| 8 | Are you going to do one on the potty now ? are n't we ? |
| 9 | The one that he 's done so far was at the end of December and erm he is going to do one to the end of March and that 's going to be a regular thing . |
| 10 | Well , he 's going to do something for the programme and I 'm doing something for TSB . |
| 11 | Yes , er maybe I would n't have mentioned it , but er , well , that 's a story of one like dozens of people , congratulating us , that at long last we 're going to do something about the environment and protect it for the future of our children , and they consider it money well spent , and asking the question , why was n't it never done before . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've had enough X-rays for a while , so I 'm going to do nothing for the moment . |
| 13 | Now if you 're going to put somebody under a shower as I say be care be very careful that you 're not splashed and get the ambulance on the way . |
| 14 | A sudden wave of panic swept over her and she glanced at the others but it did n't seem as if she was going to learn anything for the moment . |
| 15 | I 'm going to get something at the pub on my way home . |
| 16 | Goreng said , ‘ These men are going to approach one at a time . |
| 17 | Attempting to beat someone to a pulp would be described in these terms . |
| 18 | And part of the reason why we 're not really out of the recession , is that people are not willing to commit themselves to any further expenditure because they 're not quite sure in six months or twelve months time , as to whether they 're going to have anything in the way of a job . |
| 19 | He was n't going to say anything about the Worm , but of course he 'd reckoned without his mother . |
| 20 | Again , I am not going to say anything about the length of the order or how it should be arrived at , because of the course I am going to take . |
| 21 | I am not going to say anything about the subserviency of the Government . |
| 22 | When we look at Poe 's tales , the structure seems predictable , even formulaic : the dawning sense that all is not as it should be ; the attempts to explain away the moaning sounds that something inside him is nevertheless compelling him to hear ; the fight with fancy , as if one could will away one 's deepest fear ; and then the horrified recognition that what one was most afraid of is there , behind the antique panels , waiting to throw one to the floor . |
| 23 | Judith Masterman , whose daughter Alison works in the orphanage , said : ‘ We are not aiming to provide everyone with a mattress but whatever we can get helps . |
| 24 | Having considered something of the nature of aesthetic perception , it remains necessary to link this with education and with techniques stemming from Personal Construct theory which might well be used both for learning and for investigation in the area of artistic appraisal . |
| 25 | He turned professional in 1885 having won everything from the half-mile to the ten-mile AAA 's events . |
| 26 | Fabia went to bed that night having seen nothing of the man who had given her a lift , but with other more important issues rising to the surface . |
| 27 | In casual , chatty tones , she told me that " my news " had n't penetrated to her Surrey retreat , and in fact had n't reached her until an hour ago when she 'd arrived , having had nothing to the contrary since last year , to keep the traditional family tryst at my father 's house . |
| 28 | Here he began a comprehensive study of Japanese volcanoes , but became increasingly absorbed by the subject of earthquakes ( having experienced one on the night of his arrival in Japan ) . |
| 29 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 30 | Excessive violence can conveniently be interpreted as paranoia , which makes drugging an acceptable way of handling the behaviour without having to examine anything in the prison system which is causing that behaviour . |