Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , how do you get rid of or avoid coming , of the unwanted guest ? |
| 2 | But validity can be quite hard with this sort of er because there 's , there 's detailed ways of and cross checking . |
| 3 | At a meeting on April 21-22 the Democratic Platform 's co-ordinating council was divided over the question of whether to begin creating a new party immediately , with those in favour of an immediate split from the CPSU forming a steering committee chaired by Nikolai Travkin . |
| 4 | He 'd got up , and he was looking at me as if to say Coming ? supposing he was the kind of normal person who said that kind of thing . |
| 5 | In the morning , I dressed as if to go shopping , leaving my case and the new clothes in the wardrobe , the perfume on the dresser . ’ |
| 6 | He runs a hand across his mouth , as if to keep wiping off his smile . |
| 7 | They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay , and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes . |
| 8 | as if to avoid meeting her , Agnes hurried out into the corridor . |
| 9 | Ganong ( 1980 ) found that the identification of a phoneme on a continuum between and varied according to whether it was the first phoneme of kiss or gift . |
| 10 | I chested my way through and stood panting and blinking in a glass-walled theatre of spacious light , the air so dustless and oceanic that it showed you only the dirt in your human eyes . |
| 11 | ‘ I often suggested to [ the defendant ] to leave Paulette and find another woman whom he could get along with and stop mistreating her . |
| 12 | Indeed the staff of the Trade Finance Divisions are pleased to visit businesses engaged in or contemplating entering international trade to make these resources available . |
| 13 | This legislation requires that people for the first thirteen weeks that they are unemployed have the right to look for a job which they have experience in and enjoy doing , but after 13 weeks they are required to take any job that comes along . |
| 14 | It was as if we were thought of as an extension of a civil service in which the expression of contentious opinions would be frowned upon and whistle blowing seen as a crime . |
| 15 | Dr Simpson 's results were immediately pounced upon and found wanting by other groups , who used a different type of instrument and saw no effect . |
| 16 | An even bigger shock was in store when the organisers set to and began breaking out a peg for everyone . |
| 17 | But er when I as soon as I was fourteen I walked to and started working next day . |
| 18 | He saw himself as in some way subverting that tradition : they told Hawaiians to put their clothes on and stop surfing ; he was taking his off and going pagan all over again . |
| 19 | On the 580 and the EC1 you can turn this button on and start knitting with the carriage at either side of the needle bed . |
| 20 | I would n't try to put records on and start dancing , not until they was ready . |
| 21 | All said they were going to consult their leaders for fresh mandates on whether to continue participating in the 26-party democracy talks . |
| 22 | LAW lords who must rule on whether to stop feeding Hillsborough coma victim Tony Bland were told yesterday his case was different from any other because he was n't dying . |