Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people had never heard preaching like this before , and so they embraced the teaching before they had time to become used to it and ‘ Gospel-hardened ’ as had happened to the people of Bridgnorth . |
| 2 | However , the patient is likely to continue coughing for some time after the antibiotics have been stopped , and the sputum that is produced when the patient coughs will be found to contain numerous pus cells on microscopic examination . |
| 3 | In spite of these doubts , a powerful consortium using both corporate and national government funding has been formed consisting of such major electronics interests as Philips , Bosch , Thomson and Thorn EMI . |
| 4 | Police are investigating two more cases of carjacking bringing to four , the total number of such robberies in the past week . |
| 5 | Such activity is difficult ( even repugnant ) , for it involves struggling with mental symbols which enable the thinker to hold some entity — object , property , proposition , world — in mind . |
| 6 | But there are guidelines for women using tampons : Do n't leave a tampon in for too long ( time differs depending on menstrual flow ) . |
| 7 | The act of investment usually involves abstaining from current consumption in order to acquire assets , which raise the productive potential of the economy , and therefore the possibilities for future consumption . |
| 8 | Large women sit knitting alongside neat men in tweed jackets , teenagers in torn jeans , mothers and children and the elderly . |
| 9 | Erm essentially we we are sticking sticking to more information about environmental environmental issues expect er er within the ne next few months . |
| 10 | I hate driving round this with the rack on I absolutely hate it if it 's windy it 's awful . |
| 11 | It was no more and no less than this : he had deserted the only proper employment of the human mind , theology , to go a-whoring after other studies and other learning . |
| 12 | It is a pity that he attributes to Emrys Hughes remarks relating to these matters made by Sir Emrys Jones . |
| 13 | Hundreds of riot police on Nov. 2 clashed with students in Dhaka protesting against recent legislation to curb cheating in final exams . |
| 14 | Tom 's work mostly involves checking for sharp teeth and rasping them smooth . |
| 15 | However , his finance director , James Kerr-Muir , revealed that it will lead to a £900 million goodwill write-off for Kingfisher and push gearing above 60 per cent . |
| 16 | An independent Central Bank might provide such a restraint , and so might the constitutional amendment , suggested in Friedman and Friedman ( 1980 ) , which obliges the government to expand the money stock at some fixed rate and which would make cheating on this obligation illegal . |
| 17 | The Salvadorean people are giving a lesson to the whole world , and especially to the North Americans , because even after almost three years of finding ourselves beset by the guerrilla , a total misgovernment by the PDC and a catastrophic foreign intervention , we still have the moral integrity " to continue protecting against such a calamity " , financed and encouraged in part by the leftist sectors which have infiltrated the North American government … |
| 18 | Hello there this week we 've come to the coast to go climbing with three local mountaineers … the sport is celebrating at the moment … it 's thirty years since the conquest of Everest and every weekend you 'll find climbers out on the cliffs and craggs of britain |
| 19 | Do you want spelling for all hesi hesitations , ju ju ju just to show that somebody 's hesitated ? |
| 20 | The army had stopped laughing within one week of receiving Gary . |
| 21 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 22 | In places , it defies understanding to this day . |
| 23 | When Aerial Arts , the original manufacturers , ceased trading in serious debt to Cyclone Hovercraft , the Rotax agents , Cyclone Air Sports took over the rights to the Chaser . |
| 24 | The firm of Wilkes , Son and Cassey ceased trading in 1926 , the business and premises were purchased by The Salisbury Co-operative Society Limited who then only stocked larger items of ironmongery and added a furniture department on the first floor . |
| 25 | He admitted driving with excess alcohol but said he should n't be banned . |
| 26 | Smith , who has been jailed seven times in the last ten years , admitted driving with excess alcohol , while disqualified and without insurance . |
| 27 | Fox admitted driving with excess alcohol on his breath — he was 19 microgrammes over the limit — driving while disqualified and not being covered by insurance last November . |
| 28 | Todd yesterday admitted driving with excess alcohol and failing to stop and report an accident . |
| 29 | Todd yesterday admitted driving with excess alcohol and failing to stop and report an accident . |
| 30 | Todd yesterday admitted driving with excess alcohol and failing to stop and report an accident . |