Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 're looking for somebody to blame for needless deaths , look no further than Sheldukher . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm looking for someone to look after nine month old for about two/three days per week . |
| 3 | To look at you could just imagine that , you know , going for something looking like that . |
| 4 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 5 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 6 | The nest was built whilst the truck was in use , so the bird must have been patiently waiting for it to return after each journey so that it could carry on with nest building . |
| 7 | Would that , I hope that will that er , you will agree to that , because we do n't want people hanging around waiting for us to go through all our items so I hope you 'll agree with that . |
| 8 | Mr Baker , who said society had become more violent and more selfish , made an indirect attack on the Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr George Carey , and other church leaders , calling on them to concentrate on juvenile crime instead of the European Social Chapter on workers ' rights . |
| 9 | There is quite an extensive bibliography on this artist , ( that is relative to the virtual absence of any monographs on most women artists of the past ) including a number of appreciative biographies — starting with one published in 1810 , then another 1892 and the still definitive volume published in 1924 . |
| 10 | To his left was a long , shadowy , cobbled passage running beside what looked like barred loose boxes . |
| 11 | It was with some excitement that Wilson greeted the Misses Wynne on October 1st and she was aware that the challenge of preparing for them had in some curious way made her feel better . |
| 12 | This is , of course , symptomatic of the rapid move over the past few years away from a consensus-based approach to education policy making towards one based on central autonomy . |
| 13 | All around me , children were playing with what seemed like wonderful toys . |
| 14 | Any course of conduct followed or any transaction entered into by the reader arising from anything published in this magazine is so carried out or entered into at the reader 's sole risk . |
| 15 | If we win those games , then I 'll start thinking about what comes after that . |
| 16 | I had time to seminarise Mrs Dyer on the lesser masterpieces of Norman Wisdom before skipping to my room , whistling like one struck by sudden nocturnal inspiration . |
| 17 | Lord Denning and the few colleagues agreeing with him met with little success in either case . |