Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [pron] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | From this you can better judge both the potential of the farm and what is involved in bringing it up to that potential . |
2 | If they have committed the crimes they will face the sentences presumably , what 's the point in sticking it out for another two , three , four days ? |
3 | I was too occupied in explaining myself legally to that rather brutal man , Dalziel , then in explaining myself emotionally to Jenny , to have much chance of explaining myself rationally to you . |
4 | The wound was clean and dressed ; there was no point in keeping him inside with such a shortage of hospital beds . |
5 | At this moment she felt he had had a hand in cheating her out of some of her life , and the feeling made her coldly angry . |
6 | Brown will probably be involved in passing it on to other sites as well as to colleagues at the Morgan Grenfell operation . |
7 | So that 's purely , I mean and there 's no point in picking you up on that because you just had n't got to that point . |
8 | There 's no point in sending them off on endless — no doubt excellent — courses if there 's no incentive for them to use up large slices of their spare time in teaching the game . |
9 | Ferrières itself was south of Paris , between Sens and Orléans , both sees whose bishops were supporting Charles ; but its rich dependent house of St-Josse near Quentovic was in the area that fell under Lothar 's control in September 840 , and Lothar lost no time in handing it over to one of his own clerks . |
10 | If you had n't been consistent in laying them out like this , then you ca n't so quite confidently go round , go round erasing large chunks of the spreadsheet . |
11 | So much of his part was cut there seemed hardly any point in leaving him in at all . |