Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | OLDHAM have placed Paul Round , their second-row forward , on the transfer list for £95,000 , claiming he is in breach of contract for refusing to train or play for the club , writes Paul Fitzpatrick . |
| 2 | And that 's telling 'em — Jess thought , wanting to cheer and boo at the same time . |
| 3 | I was going to go and sit by the river with Dorothy Wordsworth . |
| 4 | And when we were getting people from outside coming there and some of them quite militant they were going to sit and lay across the road . |
| 5 | if you float you 'll stay at the top , some people can float and they do n't need arm bands , they stay at the top and if you sink they go to the bottom , now we 've got to look at these things look and we 've got to decide whether we think they 're gon na float , stay on the top or whether they 're going to sink and go to the bottom , now then what 's this here ? |
| 6 | We 're going to wait and listen to the News . ’ |
| 7 | Although it would be glib to presume that the removal of a pupil from his or her usual classes is necessarily the wrong strategy , there are obvious contradictions in operating a system based on negative sanctions and the off-loading of responsibility for one group whilst attempting to accept and cater for the diversity of the rest . |
| 8 | The storyline was always going to stand or fall by the performance of Tim Guinee as Lazar . |
| 9 | Now I 'm going to try and deal with the qualification . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going to come and work at the school , ’ said Maisie . |
| 11 | How are you going to ensure that Care in the Community is not just a pipe dream ? |
| 12 | Since they held Jordanian passports , it followed that those wishing to work or travel outside the West Bank had to pass over the bridge . |
| 13 | We were already beginning to try and live by the diet . |
| 14 | Clouds of mosquitoes were beginning to arrive and settle on the wounded . |
| 15 | Tightly budgeted , aiming to thrill and drawing upon the talents of performers such as Margaret Lockwood , Phyllis Calvert , James Mason and Stewart |
| 16 | Wait for printing to end as indicated by the reappearance of the Command Menu , before typing any more commands . |
| 17 | People walking along the promenade were beginning to stop and lean on the iron bar at the top end of the beach to look at the Africans . |
| 18 | Imports continued into the 1950s and the black-and-whites began to spread to other parts of the country , continuing to spread and increase during the 1960s when the national herd as a whole was decreasing . |
| 19 | 3/Slowly darkening the area , continuing to smudge and highlight with the eraser again and again , I work the piece until it looks right . |
| 20 | Slowly darkening the area , continuing to smudge and highlight with the eraser again and again , I work the piece until it looks right . |
| 21 | When we talk of a ‘ mindless occupation ’ , for instance , I take it to describe a situation in which activity is possible without having to think and feel about the meaning of the relatedness between the person and whatever the objects are that he manipulates . |
| 22 | I remember having to wash and bathe in the river ! ’ |
| 23 | I am still willing to negotiate and talk to the organisations and look at the sport . |
| 24 | Third , that the task of undoing this conditioning is one that can be achieved solely by a rational process of learning to understand and fight against the social and institutional effects of male domination . |
| 25 | Carolina , a sixteen-year-old whose mother is learning to read and write for the first time , is a voluntary helper with the grandmothers ' group . |
| 26 | Learning to read and write in the language may reinforce these three skills if they are already developed , but will not produce them . |
| 27 | Everyone 's so busy looking at it they 're not even bothering to try and get on the roundabout . |
| 28 | I was a little foolish in earlier years before the electric light , trying to read and sew by the light of an oil lamp and pressing on when I should have stopped and rested my eyes . |
| 29 | Companies trying to succeed and survive in the '90s are under growing pressure to give a quality service , often with reduced resources . |
| 30 | The eyes that were violet like his mother 's were strangely secretive , seeming to frown and smile at the same time . |