Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] the [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had built up a reputation as an idle scamp but now he was transformed into a model of industry , delivering papers in the mornings , digging people 's gardens , helping to drive the beasts at the auction mart . |
| 2 | If the Government was serious about regaining the initiative it has so wretchedly lost , the Prime Minister would sanction the Chancellor to announce this morning that Britain is seeking to join the ERM at the earliest practical moment . |
| 3 | Plans for an historic ban on mining in the Antarctic were shattered by the US refusing to sign the treaty at the last moment . |
| 4 | Anyway , Scano 's boy must have been going to see the gamekeeper at the villa . ’ |
| 5 | Mrs Frizzell had carefully cultivated her , too , but she let it pass , while Margaret complained that all four children had the measles and that she was going to have to leave them alone if the babysitter did not come soon ; she was not going to miss the dance at the Pinetree Club for worlds , and was dear Donna coming ? |
| 6 | I hope they 're going to support the wall at the , our end they 've done nothing , I suppose they 've just taken it down , but they must be doing something to underpin it or bolster it |
| 7 | And Bryony 's going to play the piano at the same time |
| 8 | Yes , yes , well I am too , and that we shall pay the penalty later on if we do n't get with us and I feel that erm , as difficult as the budget is , as tight as it is with reduction etcetera , I feel that we should make a positive funding for prevention or something , or er , because I think unless we do start somewhere , and quickly , we are going to pay the penalty at the end of the and so we 've got to make a date , you 've got to make a year , and if you wait and say and well we have n't got it now , well next year we shall say we have n't got it now , and the next year we 'll say we have n't got it now . |
| 9 | ‘ How I am going to face the girls at the ball tomorrow ? |
| 10 | At last he 's beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 11 | At last he 's beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 12 | This could be in his favour , as the penalties for failing to hit the targets at the par-fives are known to all television viewers . |
| 13 | He was reported on a discipline charge for failing to arrest the boy at the time . |
| 14 | Well I must say Mr Mayor I was gratefully assured by the answer that councillor gave earlier on about the er strenuous efforts the council is making to improve the security at the Kingsway cash point as I now gather it 's called . |
| 15 | She remembered trying to light the gas at the villa with a flaming wax Vesta , which twisted and burnt her thumb . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're just trying to contain the market at the moment — at least until we 've got the capacity to deal with the demand . ’ |
| 17 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 18 | Trying to remove the barrier at the time of communication is probably a waste of effort . |