Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was n't just a matter of meeting an old comedian ; I was meeting someone out of the dustier corners of my private pantheon .
2 Holwell got a second after the interval with the Exmouth captain , Rosie Goodridge , pulling one back in the last minute .
3 This writer would certainly have preferred the option for moving everything out of the main glen , but the fact that the centre is now seen as being a mistake is encouraging and the partial solution is vastly better than the centre being a rapidly-growing monster .
4 Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place !
5 Most caddies have their own way of getting one back in the long run .
6 In the Berchtesgaden district , most recorded comment — as elsewhere — was loyal in tone , but there were difficulties in getting anything out of the rural population .
7 At the time the name seemed just too obviously a snipe at rdbms rival Oracle Corp , which began rolling out its delayed Release 7 over the course of 1992 : Sybase 's current release name is 4.9 , and there seemed no logical reason to start calling anything out of the fast-growing system software supplier 's warehouses ‘ System 10 . ’
8 At the time the name seemed just too obviously a snipe at relational database rival Oracle Corp , which began rolling out its delayed Release 7 over the course of 1992 : Sybase 's current release name is 4.9 , and there seemed no logical reason to start calling anything out of the fast-growing system software supplier 's warehouses ‘ System 10 ’ .
9 ‘ That 's why they 're common in the fire service and the army , where people are doing something out of the ordinary and taking greater risks than others .
10 A state enterprise may be able to manoeuvre among the diverse pressures on it , playing one off against the other ( Levy 1987 ) ; what Feigenbaum ( 1982 : 113 ) refers to as ‘ corporate manipulation of the state ’ .
11 Erm which is points up a weakness there on the public relations side there I mean going back to their post share repurchase they said that they 'd got no new products in the pipeline , no research and development really sort of throwing anything up in the near future .
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