Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My memories of cardiac teaching rounds are of a dozen students queueing to listen to a murmur while the registrar stood at the end of the bed swinging a stethoscope and staring out of the window . |
| 2 | This of course is the stuff of which martyrs are made , leading to sacrifice for a cause or causes in both religious and secular society . |
| 3 | I think we also need to recognise that there has also been a er , high level of er , commitment from er , officers employed by this council to achieving the changes that we have asked in terms of financial management , now I 'm not going to pretend for a moment that er , we 've gone all the way there yet . |
| 4 | Cos that frustrates me , when I 'm waiting to go onto a roundabout and I do n't know where the other c I ca n't really read where the other cars are going . |
| 5 | Or when you 're waiting to go into a meeting and your secretary is still finishing your presentation because the PC is so slow . |
| 6 | which we did , and I 'm pleased to say that they endorsed that that general position , in other words their not going to come to a conclusion whether or not they should take any part in the proceedings , whether they should intervene or seek to stop the project until much later in the day . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the SPD , like Labour , has been nervous in calling for a complete recasting of public financing and altering both tax and expenditure profiles to fit with a post-cold war world while attempting to relate to an electorate that believes it is paying too many direct and indirect taxes as well as ever-rising social security and health insurance payments . |
| 8 | If detailed semantic and syntactical analysis of words in a commercial contract is going to lead to a conclusion that flouts business common sense , it must be made to yield to business common sense ( The Antaios [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 229 at 233 ) . |
| 9 | The reality was that he seemed to have been forgotten and nothing was going to serve as a reminder unless the kidnappers broke their silence . |
| 10 | Now that Labour is going to choose between a Scotsman and a New Zealander for its new leader , it would be less offensive and more appropriate if it were to adopt an All Black thistle as its logo . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm going to look like a snowman when I get in . ’ |
| 12 | He listened — at first with a curious air of detachment , as if he was an observer from another civilisation , or someone whose own experience had come to an end , someone who was waiting to embark on a journey and looked at the world with vacant eyes , his mind already in transit . |
| 13 | Doubtless some readers will be wondering what I am going to do about a hood and lighting . |
| 14 | You 're going to live for a wee while yet , going to live for a wee while yet . |
| 15 | You 're going to live for a wee while yet , going to live for a wee while yet . |
| 16 | ‘ Nick , ’ he said at last , ‘ my son is going to die within a year if I do n't do something very drastic . |
| 17 | Tourism is never going to pay on a scale that covers the major repairs which are going to clobber you . ’ |
| 18 | Following this direct action , BP Coal flew in its executives to meet LAG , a meeting that LAG had been attempting to organize for a year and a half . |
| 19 | ‘ You just never know what 's going to happen in a fight and I wish Lewis all the best . ’ |
| 20 | We 're waiting to register as a charity and eventually we hope to get a national FreeFone line . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm going to feel like an idiot if someone comes and opens that door right now , ’ she muttered , using words like a shield to try and hide her real distress , the real reason she was feeling like an idiot . |
| 22 | The German trade unions are beginning to screech with a militancy that is all too familiar . |
| 23 | I am not making pedantic points when I refer to all those complexities and difficulties which are now beginning to bite in a way that I find worrying . |
| 24 | The issue is not one of having to choose between a partner and a sport or hobby , but it may well be the choice between a partner and the complete freedom to please oneself . |
| 25 | There is nothing shaming in not owning the place where you live and there is something positively encouraging about having to save for a deposit before you plunge into the housing market . |
| 26 | Breathlessly , Belinda arrived at the artist 's side , her cheeks burning at having to intrude on a conversation that was just getting established again after Greg 's tactless attempt at humour . |
| 27 | Pop would go out in the morning scouring the countryside for meat and vegetables , and sometimes having to dive into a culvert if there was a raid ; meanwhile the officers would shepherd us into trenches and play games until the raid was over . |
| 28 | Matthew Rider , 20 , of Foster Road , Great Totham , also faces two charges of failing to stop after an accident and two charges of failing to report an accident , and one of having a false number plate on the car he was driving . |
| 29 | Mrs Fenton , who runs a wine business and lives in a £500,000 house on the outskirts of Stratford upon Avon , admitted careless driving , failing to stop after an accident and failing to report an accident . |
| 30 | So it , as I said to you in my opening remarks , here 's a clear example of us having to move in a direction that we would n't be recommending to you in terms of policy , but we 're driven by the financial considerations . |