Example sentences of "of [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fashanu has carried the injury for a number of weeks and has had to endure two hours of daily stretching on a rack to ease the pain . |
| 2 | But I said that and sort of just holding on a level now like , is n't it ? |
| 3 | And they stabbed at him and caused his whole body to tremble as if in shame because , in a way , he knew she was right : his inadequacy to face his future was there for even himself to see ; he had considered volunteering in order to avoid the responsibility of making the choice either of going to University to read for a degree in English Literature or of just plumping for a teacher 's training college course . |
| 4 | So what 's the pleasure of just roaring up a hill ? |
| 5 | It was the possibility of directly profiting from a revival of Spanish overseas trade that brought prosperity to these same regions : to the ‘ companies ’ of Catalan , to the merchants of the Levante ports , and to the Basque shippers . |
| 6 | He admitted three charges of illegally camping in a lay-by and two charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice by giving a false name to police . |
| 7 | Paddy Ashdown has an egg salad in a saffron mayonnaise on a bed of very curly green frisee lettuce — saffron being a much-used ingredient in the West Country ; this has the advantage of also doubling as a dish for the Green party . |
| 8 | Unfortunately I 'm going to be busy for most of today lecturing to a group of Japanese businessmen , so I 'll have to leave you in the hands of my assistant . |
| 9 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 10 | Feeling flustered and guilty that I had departed from my normal custom of never working on a pupil 's painting , I foolishly replied " Yes " . |
| 11 | the objective of politically going for a class struggle |
| 12 | Holiday memories of dinner for two complete with bottle of wine for the princely sum of a fiver are , alas , no guide to the cost of actually living in a country — especially if the holiday in question took place five years ago or more . |