Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand the intention — of wanting to try to make a conciliatory gesture — but this could be the thin end of a very dangerous wedge . |
| 2 | But earthlings attempting to borrow found a different reality . |
| 3 | Like most things in gliding this takes practice and experience if you are going to avoid losing a thousand feet or more trying to take the picture of your turning point . |
| 4 | Monsieur Mitterand has already said that he 's going to seek to drive a harder bargain with Britain over fishing limits even than President Giscard was trying to do , and I think our negotiators must expect a rather tough time as far as fisheries are concerned . |
| 5 | Some of them are going to have to puzzle a little bit hard . |
| 6 | She was going to have to spend a second night at the motel , if only to continue their cover of an ‘ affair ’ . |
| 7 | He 's going to have to improve a little bit on his last win , but I think he can do that , so that 's the fourth leg of a yankee , trap one , Ambridge Power . |
| 8 | I 'm just going to have to try a perpendicular approach and hope I can time my arrival to a point when the hole is passing in front of me . ’ |
| 9 | But you 're all going to have to work a darned sight harder . |
| 10 | Now you ca n't actually park by casualty 's door , you 're going to have to park a little bit before that . |
| 11 | But before that the Royals are going to have to endure a disturbing time . |
| 12 | Somehow , the party is going to have to find a better way of operating this time round . |
| 13 | He is going to have to keep a straight face , and deal with it . |
| 14 | anyway we , we had a petition that when it came up that er , that the new E E C rules were coming in that they would , they 'd going to have to have a clean way if you are you are and a dirty way out you know |
| 15 | At Twickenham , he is going to have to play a full part in a Scottish back-row who — which has not been the case for some years — will be having to cope with , in Dewi Morris and Stuart Barnes , not only a breaking scrum-half , but a running stand-off who attacks the gain-line . |
| 16 | ‘ And if you leave here , I 'm afraid I 'm going to have to make a few phone calls . |
| 17 | Duke , 41 , became a Republican in 1989 after claiming to have undergone a Christian conversion and rejected his racist views . |
| 18 | As the votes were counted it became clear that the contest was the closest federal election for 30 years , with both sides claiming to have won a narrow victory . |
| 19 | With these reductions BT and Mercury are hoping to make ISDN a viable alternative to an analogue business exchange line for the many small to medium sized companies who have previously found connection charges prohibitive . |