Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] a [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I mean if it 's somebody wanting to move a three-piece suite and just a few books , no , we 'd do it at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ Some guy flew out to Australia looking to sign a cool band and he got us instead ! ’ |
| 3 | It seemed bizarre that a band plagued by such huge problems on an international scale should wish to waste their time attempting to sue a small time and , to be frank , penniless magazine . |
| 4 | MORE THAN a thousand years after St Edward the Martyr , King of England from AD 975 to AD 978 , was murdered at Corfe Castle , Dorset , the Mayor of Shaftesbury is attempting to circumvent a legal log-jam and re-inter some of the Saxon monarch 's remains in the ruins of Shaftesbury Abbey this year . |
| 5 | With the next trowel-full I 'm going to find a new species and I keep hoping they 'll name it after me . |
| 6 | During their years in London together Ianthe and her mother had not attached themselves to one church , Mrs Broome liking to hear a good preacher and fine music . |
| 7 | But you 're going to get a wider latitude and difference of i of of strength of economy by bringing in the eastern bloc in the short term . |
| 8 | Before that though , we 're going to get a huge fretsaw and cut along the borders of Essex and Suffolk and then saw down from The Wash to meet the other line . |
| 9 | Duke William could claim that he was going to oust a perjured usurper and also to remove from the see of Canterbury an archbishop not recognized in Rome . |
| 10 | Both Haketa and the NSDAP sought to resolve and dissolve the internal German class and social conflicts brought about by attempting to maintain a feudal nobility and at the same time to industrialise a newly formed country by projecting their energy into false imperialist and colonial solutions in their eastern borderlands . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm going to have a major rest and then I 'll consider what to do . |
| 12 | So it is a major curriculum initiative itself and I am hoping it is going to have a knock-on effect and get people to consider the way they teach fairly radically . |
| 13 | And they 're going to have a good look and you may need to do all sorts of interesting things , okay . |
| 14 | And then , I do n't know what you 're going to do here but we are going to have a new hall and stair carpet |
| 15 | Well I mean I do n't know what you think is best , I mean er within this year we 're going to have a new hall and stair carpet as well . |
| 16 | Denis Taylor : ‘ We decided we were going to have a new singer and hold auditions , the idea being that we would go to the old club we used to play in called La Discothéque , which was in Wardour Street , not far from the Whiskey-a-GoGo . |
| 17 | Let them know it 's going to have a fabulous programme and be full of people they know or others of a like mind . |
| 18 | Mummy has bought daddy some nice chocolates to eat and we 're going to have a special dinner and then next Saturday Nanna Nanna and Del are coming down to look after you |
| 19 | He was going to collect a few possessions and move into Mrs Lorimer 's for a bit . |
| 20 | Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time . |
| 21 | Any European fan coming to Brazil and expecting to find a national league and knockout cup as in his own country is likely to be bewildered by a combination of 27 regional competitions , a nationwide cup , a national championship , pre-season tournaments and three South American club competitions . |
| 22 | The company has consolidated sales and marketing as well as domestic and international activities and is expecting to announce a new sales and marketing executive soon . |
| 23 | The dining rooms were beginning to show a better turnover and the books started to look much more tidy and well kept , thanks to Carrie 's efficiency and enterprise . |
| 24 | It also incorporates Swedish style squeezing and kneading to stimulate a healthy scalp and hair . |
| 25 | We are responding to this increasing demand by continuing to promote a strong research and educational programme through the General Insurance Study Group . |
| 26 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 27 | Possibly one reason for the author 's attitude was his ignorance of the geography of the country ; a striking instance of this is his statement that in 1461 the earl of March , whom he had rightly described as being in Wales , arrived in England having enjoyed a prosperous voyage and favoured by the west wind ( 14 , p.532 ) . |
| 28 | The psychological structure for the talker requires , broadly speaking , two kinds of pretence : ( 1 ) an emotional one of having made a momentous decision and ( 2 ) a fictitious factual background . |
| 29 | Theoretically , it is conceivable that , say , experiencing regret ( the verb ) at having made a wrong decision and depicting regret ( the adjective ) are a different genre . |
| 30 | By 4 am Gary Humphreys was dead , having suffered a broken jaw and choked to death on his own blood . |