Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her latest pester-the-public project involves hanging outside a shoe repair shop and testing people 's trust by asking to take a copy of their house key . |
| 2 | He stolidly avoided reacting to the word ‘ murdered ’ . |
| 3 | Southall , who admitted speeding at an earlier hearing , was fined Pounds 700 and given six penalty points . |
| 4 | Youds , 22 , of Lavenham Road , Ipswich , admitted speeding on the A45 at Kentford , near Newmarket , on November 8 last year . |
| 5 | Aston Villa winger Dwight Yorke admitted speeding in a 50mph zone on the A38 through Birmingham . |
| 6 | By identifying cash deficits at the planning stage a firm will be in a good position to arrange financing for the deficit . |
| 7 | Attendance at these affairs , which involves queueing for the sandwiches , queueing for a glimpse of the Queen , queueing for the lavatories , queueing to leave , is potent evidence of the continuing talismanic influence of the monarchy . |
| 8 | In the config.sys file you will find many of the commands that need to be individually altered depending on the programs you are running . |
| 9 | This job also involves assisting in the organisation of promotional events in the UK and overseas . |
| 10 | ‘ I may be old-fashioned , ’ Alec sighed , ‘ but I hate experimenting in a lonely spot like this . ’ |
| 11 | Whilst discussing Derwentwater he discourages drawing from a boat or small island , ‘ the passion for boat prospects is owing to the delusive fascinations of the water . ’ |
| 12 | Rising real wages made subletting as a means of supplementing income less essential and , among the unemployed , the household means test made letting rooms a more difficult proposition . |
| 13 | The section prohibits canvassing in the sense of the attempt of an applicant or of another person at his instigation to influence a member of a licensing board to support his application for a grant , renewal or permanent transfer of a licence , or for a regular extension of permitted hours before the application is considered by the board ( subs . |
| 14 | Meanwhile a carefree Madonna goes jogging on the beach with her personal trainer . |
| 15 | We long ago ceased to enjoy hanging as a public spectacle . |
| 16 | If the former involves drawing on a richness of tacit knowledge the latter is necessarily concerned with reversing this process , ie with making explicit the tacit richness of design activity . |
| 17 | Are there sufficient staff in the organisation prepared to promote nursing in the local community ? |
| 18 | If you are not aware that your eating habits change depending on the time of your menstrual cycle , it would be worth keeping diary for a few months to check . |
| 19 | Additional programmes can be developed depending on the needs and achievement profile of the student . |
| 20 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 21 | Say she enticed him into the woods and became demanding in every way and heavily emotional , piling on pressure . |
| 22 | It had stopped raining by the time they drew into the courtyard at Headquarters . |
| 23 | ( Where sounds correspond aurally yet the concept differs depending on the context , further confusion can arise . |
| 24 | The tempo of speech differs depending on the urgency ( rapid ) or deliberation ( slow ) of the speech . |
| 25 | This dissonance is one of the most characteristic sounds of Bulgarian women 's traditional singing ; other striking features are the high-pitched yips which punctuate singing from the Shop and Pirin regions , and Pirin songs also feature strikingly beautiful na visoko ( high ) voices . |
| 26 | In addition , curriculum materials ( eg. , schoolbooks and broadcasts ) for use by pupils studying religious education and by teachers of religious education will be developed drawing on the project 's empirical research data and employing the project 's theoretical work in religious education . |
| 27 | During this time an overall strategy will be developed drawing on the experiences of the selected trial centres in order to provide a firm base for planning of the second phase which will begin in mid-1988 . |
| 28 | The metal ball swung in a ponderous arc to go crashing into the front of The Haven . |
| 29 | ( 10 ) Acceptance of the cash underwritten alternative and the consequent disposal of the consideration shares might give rise to a liability to capital gains tax depending on the individual circumstances of the accepting shareholder . |
| 30 | In San Salvador , children have picked up a catchy radio tune about the Condor brand of condoms and can be heard singing in the streets : " Condor is your friend , — always take him with you ! " |