Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] a [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protesters were demanding to see a confidential document written by Anglian Water to the Scottish Office about the reorganisation of Scottish water . |
| 2 | Attend/host a Working Mums group evening meeting Type articles for newsletter ( machine available ) Be a postnatal supporter to a new mum nearby Host an Open House meeting ( you provide refreshments ) Host a Mobile Mums meeting host a New Mums meeting Give jumble kids ' clothes for sale at events Sell outgrown stuff at Nearly New sales Bake cakes ( frozen ones very acceptable ) for events Help in the kitchen at events or ‘ man ’ the stalls |
| 3 | Attend/host a Working Mums group evening meeting Type articles for newsletter ( machine available ) Be a postnatal supporter to a new mum nearby Host an Open House meeting ( you provide refreshments ) Host a Mobile Mums meeting host a New Mums meeting Give jumble kids ' clothes for sale at events Sell outgrown stuff at Nearly New sales Bake cakes ( frozen ones very acceptable ) for events Help in the kitchen at events or ‘ man ’ the stalls |
| 4 | Kim Basinger is refusing to open an Argentinian disco named after her unless blondes are banned from standing near her in a photo session . |
| 5 | ‘ I was just imagining spending an entire life closeted with only the company of your own sex … ’ |
| 6 | Make like you are prospective clients , looking to rent a secluded property to write a book or something . |
| 7 | And tonight he was going to meet a magnificent girl called Jane Ashton who worked in the Y.M.C.A. canteen in the village of Chavigny . |
| 8 | MY SISTER 'S HIV POSITIVE AND I 'M GOING TO DO A SPONSORED WALK TO RAISE MONEY FOR A NEW AIDS CENTRE . |
| 9 | I 'm going to get a little cushion to put on my you know . |
| 10 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 11 | Dr Les Atkinson , vice-president of the chamber and chairman of BP Shipping , forecast : ‘ Any shipowner who disregards this guidance and causes a pollution incident is going to have an impossible task establishing in the courts that he was operating his vessels in a prudent and competent manner . ’ |
| 12 | We were going to have an 80-foot Brussels sprout flying above Battersea Power Station — and it nearly happened ! |
| 13 | ‘ What sixteen-year-old is going to take a thirteen-year-old home to meet his oldies ? |
| 14 | ‘ Four clubs have asked me to play next season , and I 'm going to make a big effort to get fit again . |
| 15 | If they are going to make an sizeable investment to computerise the process , the machine must enable the musician to produce the finished product faster than by hand . |
| 16 | And just when they are beginning to see a potent combination developing with Mark Bright — with Chris Waddle to provide the crosses and John Sheridan to scheme openings from behind . |
| 17 | It is suitable for those wishing to combine a serious business oriented course with a holiday in London . |
| 18 | It is because the attender is unobservable and can only be inferred from retrospective description that mental experiencing includes a strong tendency to dichotomize the ‘ I ’ ( attender ) from the ‘ me ’ ( self-description ) ; a dichotomy that parallels that between ‘ I ’ and my body . |
| 19 | Ariel wept and nearly stumbled , for her own leg was sore too , but she kept on going , determined to take Sycorax away from the men who were camping in their compound , drawing water from the stream , building fire on their hearthstones , and beginning to roast a spitted shoat to eat . |
| 20 | The Saddlery Courses are designed for people wishing to earn a full time living from making and repairing saddlery or for anyone who just wants to supplement their existing income , as they state ‘ whatever you want from this course , either to earn money or to save money , it is designed for you . ’ |
| 21 | Basically , a firm wishing to enter a foreign market has a choice of three methods , known as ‘ market servicing strategies ’ . |
| 22 | As a result , no hints of James having broken a contractual obligation found its way into the Declaration of Rights , which simply concluded that James had " abdicated the Government " and that the throne was " thereby vacant " . |
| 23 | The continuing fighting between the two groups was seen as having wrecked a five-point plan to end the violence , agreed at a meeting between Buthelezi and Mandela on March 30 [ see p. 38087 ] . |
| 24 | Everton 's most successful captain has had to put his career on hold after failing to find a suitable club following a spell in the Scottish Premier League with Dundee earlier this season . |
| 25 | Having made a new table to replace a rather unsteady card table , there being no local shop which sold green baize , I opted for green Heuga carpet tiles . |
| 26 | Having made a tentative decision to come back to nursing , it would be similarly useful to compare your reasons for doing so in the light of the previous exercise . |
| 27 | Thompson got the damaged Z3034 down safely , having suffered a minor splinter wound in his leg . |
| 28 | Yet the sense of having missed a once-on-a-lifetime boat remains acute . |
| 29 | She managed to escape to the kitchen on the pretext of having seen an old friend heading in that direction . |
| 30 | That will no doubt be done by the press , clearly bored at not having had a good scandal to get its teeth into for all of two months . |