Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] a [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching Smotty 's four-minute debut — missing an open goal whilst tying his bootlace , refusing to take a second-minute penalty until he had washed his shin pads in the puddle on the centre circle , then when he did take it hitting the corner flag — I could feel the supporters forcing my head further and further down on the block . |
| 2 | ‘ I was always looking to join a foreign company because I speak a little bit of English and wanted to practise it . |
| 3 | I 'm , I 'm going to find a quiet room because I 've got to do some . |
| 4 | 'Cos you 're going to look a right fool when you bury Simon Cormack 's body … ’ |
| 5 | Mr Chihana , the secretary-general of the influential Southern Africa Trade Union Co-ordination Council , who flew from Johannesburg to Lilongwe , Malawi 's capital , was detained while he was attempting to read a prepared statement after he descended the steps of a South African Airways flight . |
| 6 | A BOY aged 14 has appeared before a court in Crewe on a charge of attempting to rape a 92-year-old spinster while carrying out a burglary . |
| 7 | Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ? |
| 8 | I 'm going to get a thermal bodystocking before I go back . ’ |
| 9 | Clarissa and I are going to have a tiny foot-up till he arrives . ’ |
| 10 | He assured the court that Howard was going to take a well-needed holiday as soon as he could . |
| 11 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |
| 12 | In addition other purchasers , not wishing to miss a golden opportunity because they can not react quickly will attempt to insist that the seller grants them exclusive negotiating rights for a reasonable period of , for example , six weeks during which they should be able to agree a deal ; a so called lock out agreement . |
| 13 | The champagne corks were popping to brighten a raw afternoon as the pair became the seventh and eighth jockeys to reach the 100-winner mark this term . |
| 14 | Retentionists could not accept that a rapist who breaks into a house , violates his victim , and then kills in order to prevent her giving evidence against him , should be treated as having committed a lesser offence than a burglar who kills in the course of theft . |
| 15 | Having suffered a rare whitewash when they met in last season 's Asian Open qualifiers , the world champion was relieved to clinch a 1-0 lead in their Humo European Open quarter-final . |
| 16 | Still has that remarkable record of not having missed a single game since he signed for Leicester from Sheffield United . |
| 17 | Though she speaks wistfully of the luxury of ‘ blue sky research ’ , Beverley sees advantages in having to adopt a commercial perspective as well as a purely scientific one . |
| 18 | On the morning of Sept. 13 Radio Togo broadcast a communiqué read by a member of the armed forces attacking Koffigoh 's transitional government as " a complete failure " , and threatening to appoint a new government unless Koffigoh had done so by 11 a.m . |
| 19 | Q. Do you approve of a woman having to have a vaginal examination as apart of the routine medical examination to enter Britain ? |
| 20 | Being recognised for having kept a glorified diary while wandering through India when he was young and naïve was n't enough for him . |
| 21 | So the council were faced were having to take a legal action because there was a whole claims that because the land was so old , nobody knew who technically owned it and it was n't registered as we owning it until nineteen sixty six , there was legal disputes about that . |
| 22 | Yet in the army , a person who admits to having raped a married woman whilst her husband was fighting to preserve peace can get away with it . |
| 23 | Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door . |
| 24 | The writer is aware of an agreement for lease granted in 1965 purporting to grant a 21-year lease where the landlord was still not in a position to grant the lease by the expiration of the agreed term in 1986 . |
| 25 | Sometimes , we can be sitting having a quiet drink when someone will come across for an autograph and I remember who I 'm with . |
| 26 | It is always worth trying to trace a specific witness if their testimony is important . |
| 27 | HOUSEWIFE Sarah Fox threw away £10,000 in research trying to invent a floating soap because such a soap called Swan , and shaped like one , was around at least 50 years ago . |
| 28 | Ryan is trying to keep a long-term perspective since his appointment as Welsh coach runs to the end of the next World Cup , in the autumn of 1991 . |
| 29 | Building a complex structure by evolution is like trying to build a mortarless arch if you are allowed to touch only one stone at a time . |
| 30 | But the Signpost Hotel Guide survey of 300 hotel owners showed that fewer people are bothering use a false name when they book in for an illicit weekend . |