Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their first meeting , Berenson is described as ‘ a gentleman with a reddish beard ’ ; apologising for turning up at the artist 's studio unannounced , he offered the excuse that he was ‘ the person who bought all your pictures from Torrini ’ ( an antique dealer with whom Joni placed his first works for sale ) . |
| 2 | He had been pacing the room with slow majestic energy ending by peering down through the venetian blind at Madison below . |
| 3 | He 's looking to getting out of the hospit looking forward to a , a change |
| 4 | North and South Tees and Hartlepool were looking at getting together in the same way , as were other districts in the North of the region . |
| 5 | As the speed bled off , he turned the aircraft on to the runway heading by kicking hard on the right rudder-pedal . |
| 6 | This takes a full litre of water — enough for one-and-a-half hours of constant steam ironing without going back to the tap . |
| 7 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 8 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 9 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 10 | This is an attractive idea , but for most adults the goal of learning through communicating naturally in the language throughout the day will , sadly , never be a practical one ; we have to continue to make use of something like formal classroom teaching because of the limited time and resources available . |
| 11 | Smith said that some of the reporters had been drinking before getting down to the job of covering the fight ; Hearn is considering litigation . |
| 12 | In these circumstances the ego simply has no hope of triumphing by measuring up to the ideal standards of the superego , in so far as it exists . |
| 13 | He was talking about branching out into the ship-in-a-bottle business because Jonathon will make only ships . |
| 14 | Yeah but I 'm talking about going up to the gym . |
| 15 | You talking about going out on the streets , it does n't get them anywhere half the time . |
| 16 | The most important thing to emphasise is that , regardless of the attitude of the glider , if it is not responding to moving back on the stick or if the stick is hitting the back stop , a forward movement must be made to allow the glider to unstall . |
| 17 | So I was racing through South London on my bike , nearly getting crushed several times by lorries , head bent over the dropped handlebars , swiftly running through the ten Campagnola gears , nipping through traffic , sometimes mounting the pavement , up one-way streets , breaking suddenly , accelerating by standing up on the pedals , exhilarated by thought and motion . |
| 18 | ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked . |
| 19 | Gregory was seriously thinking of getting out of the music business at the time . |
| 20 | Their prospectus said Skerne was thinking of extending further into the bridge-building field , and £200,000 was secured by the sale of 10,000 £20 shares . |
| 21 | Tell you what , Jacqui and I were thinking of tootling on to the midnight matinee at the Parthenon after this lot . |
| 22 | Well I was thinking of walking home from the centre of the town but then I thought to hell with it . |
| 23 | ‘ You are n't thinking of going out into the jungle to exercise for old times ’ sake ? ’ |
| 24 | If you are thinking of heading on towards the Capital there 's no such problems there , the M4 the M40 and the M25 running quite nicely this evening . |
| 25 | In the disappointment of defeat , he was wavering about trying again for the blue boat next year , because of academic work . |
| 26 | But they remained Germans , always dreaming of going back to the Fatherland one day . ’ |