Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to London , and influenced by Ruskin and Octavia Hill , she went to work as a volunteer at a number of slum-housing projects around Marylebone , where her contributions ranged from carpentry to moral tutoring and advising the poor of the district on careers , and attempting to lead them away from the evils of alcohol . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 3 | It looked as though the Americans were going to sweep us aside in the early part of the afternoon at one point we had lost the match and were down in eight and up in only one . |
| 4 | I 'm going to fit it neatly into the neck of the one of the bottles . |
| 5 | Are you going to do it again for the seventy fifth ? |
| 6 | If there 've been a whole series of articles articles about health or about food or something like that , no way are they going to do anything else on the subject , unless it 's , it 's brought in a very fierce readers ' letters column or something like that , in which case they may be open for another slant . |
| 7 | The actor , in attempting to subject himself spontaneously to an occurrence and at the same time communicate that occurrence to an audience , is experiencing an unresolvable tension . |
| 8 | ‘ Are you going to keep me here on the doorstep ? ’ |
| 9 | If we 're going to keep it there on the patio , . |
| 10 | Max said there 'd have been buckets of blood , and if someone 's going to get it all over a suit , or a dress … |
| 11 | ‘ What the hell did you think — that I was going to take you here on the ground — or up against some tree ? |
| 12 | Their relationships with each other and with later hominoids is still uncertain , but as they represent different evolutionary trends I am going to distinguish them taxonomically at the level of tribe , where they have been distinguished at generic level before . |
| 13 | Fully expecting to see him either in the saloon , or in the galley , she was surprised to find both empty . |
| 14 | . Here , have your breakfast then we 'll have a nice bath cos mummy 's got a lady coming to see her today about a job . |
| 15 | ‘ It takes away the problems of having to leave it often to a junior member of staff to make that decision , ’ a hospital spokeswoman said . |
| 16 | Storming into the restaurant where the Italian and Miss Maughan 's character were dining , he invented some story about having to keep her away from the paparazzi ( which he probably thinks is the coffee you buy in Venice ) and whisked her off her feet back to his place . |
| 17 | The Palace dismissed it as a fake , but within 24 hours Royal officials appeared to add weight to its authenticity by failing to reject it outright as a hoax . |
| 18 | I 've been I 've been intending to ask you actually about the about the women workers . |
| 19 | Leon threw the ball high , running for it himself and falling to catch it just for the pleasure of movement in sunshine . |
| 20 | To say it is a hidden village is an understatement as it took some hawk-eyed map reading and signpost spotting to get us there in the first place . |
| 21 | So Lord Campbell of Alloway is trying to go it alone with a private member 's bill in the House of Lords . |
| 22 | If you 're trying to catch somebody immediately after a crime , you grab every man you can and smother the area . |
| 23 | Ask Mr Brown about Proposition 13 , the 1978 ballot initiative that crippled local government , and he will say that it should be reformed ; but he has hardly been spotted on the barricades shouting that cause , let alone trying to tackle it directly in the legislature . |
| 24 | Tonks also attended Saturday 's game and when asked about the situation , he smiled confidently and said : ‘ We are hoping to announce something early in the week . ’ |
| 25 | Also , while I do n't desperately miss most of the extra facilities found on the big brother GP12 preamp , I really feel a balanced DI output would be a great advantage here when feeding a desk and would obviate the need for a separate DI box , as I 'm sure a large number of this combo 's potential users will be hoping to use it either in the studio or to reinforce their sound through a PA . |
| 26 | ‘ No , Father , ’ Ellie replied , trying to manoeuvre herself away from the smell of stale whisky and nicotine . |
| 27 | The little girl seemed to be with a group , the carriage was dense with bulky figures , and I had the impression someone was trying to get her away from the window . |
| 28 | Once again , it may be the impersonal that is being undervalued by an approach that is effectively denying inanimate objects their autonomy by trying to present them virtually as the organs of God 's body . |
| 29 | They were … sort of … writhing around … struggling … trying to push themselves away from the wall . |
| 30 | He went all out at a new piece , rushing into it with lots of enthusiasm and wrong notes , trying to make it sound like the finished piece as soon as possible . |