Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the way , friendly , protective neighbours are absolutely invaluable and well worth cultivating for that reason if no other . |
| 2 | ‘ If anything can be concluded from this book , it is that I was born , ’ writes Sisson after touching on that event , which occurred 75 years ago in a building since occupied by the Bristol Rovers Supporters Club . |
| 3 | ‘ You certainly need something to buck you up after dealing with that scrum in Bamford . |
| 4 | In constructionist theory the ‘ self ’ is the sense of personal identity derived from being a ‘ continuity of one 's point of view in the world of space and time ’ , linked with being an agent capable of action ‘ in that one takes oneself as acting from that very same point ’ . |
| 5 | There are a lot of internal things going on , there are a lot of lines about searching for that kind of thing , like they 're here ! |
| 6 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 7 | All re even the engine room was steam cos you had the bucket depth of dredging on that ladder was thirty six feet that 's what dredger can go down so far with the buckets going round and they used to dredge about thirty six feet . |
| 8 | In 1949 he became professor of singing at that academy . |
| 9 | It was a left-over from the days when an admiral , who had spent the greater part of his life in debt to Gieves , none the less had the matter on his conscience and despaired of dying in that state . |
| 10 | He thought the better of pressing on that one too |
| 11 | And when , within five weeks of returning from that injury , she was beaten up by a yob , she still did n't dream of quitting . |
| 12 | He knew William would know why , the thought of walking along that embankment , knowing what they knew . |
| 13 | I was scared of becoming like that . |
| 14 | These are self-report inventories where the testee has the possibility of cheating in that he can respond with an answer which he considers will give him a good score rather than providing a completely truthful one . |
| 15 | I 'm going to give you , as a table one of the features of the plan , I 'm going to ask you as a group , but only one of you needs to write it , to write every single thing you can think of relating to that set feature . |
| 16 | John Pullen , of London Zoo , said : ‘ There 's no way a chimp could understand which company to go for , it has to be complete luck — but then what I understand of trading in that way sounds like complete luck half the time . ’ |
| 17 | The Marshal had made a point of checking on that because although the Florentines spent a small fortune on electronic locks , bars , security doors and burglar alarms they quite open pressed the switches and opened up the lot to anybody with the wit to ring the bell and call ‘ Telegramtne ! ’ |
| 18 | When he reflected on how age and death laid waste man 's being , and saw a means of interfering with that process , he acted as harbinger to the Age of Science then in its first dawn . |
| 19 | A serious problem with this approach is that prudential agents may assume that the oldest group in society is relatively small in number , and further that there is very little chance of living to that age — so may devote scant resources to the oldest group . |
| 20 | The original intention was to allow a husband to retire in a similar standard of living to that which he enjoyed while working and to allow his surviving widow to be comfortable after his death . |
| 21 | The heroism portrayed as necessary to triumph over the slave trade drew upon a sense of working in harmony with fellow reformers , fired in part by an ideologically convergent commitment and of acting upon that commitment in similar ways . |
| 22 | Potential new readers of Spare Rib would not think of looking under that section for a women 's magazine , and I assumed it was a mistake on the part of overworked staff . |
| 23 | I I think there 's another way of looking at that . |
| 24 | His remarks are interesting because they demonstrate a new way of looking at that relationship . |
| 25 | I got so sick of looking at that . |
| 26 | A as a result of looking at that information , the collators department . |
| 27 | Well sort of looking in that , that s er on the Tyne . |
| 28 | Livesey is quite capable of looking after that particular angle , and no doubt he is sharpening his pencil for this purpose already . |
| 29 | I 've got a bad habit of shouting like that today . |
| 30 | A protocol was signed , however , preserving economic ties into the first quarter of 1992 and with the aim of guaranteeing over that period deliveries of the equivalent of 70 per cent of first quarter deliveries in 1991 . |