Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've now got to see if people like it enough for us to want to even think about building something like it . ’ |
| 2 | There are dozens of good points about eating plenty of fruit . |
| 3 | ‘ Why should I be penalised for helping someone in trouble ? |
| 4 | Yeah , well she was going on about bringing lots of money into the college but she might have to pay two hundred and twenty quid for a barn dance band if she 's not careful . |
| 5 | The National Trust is responsible for protecting one in every six miles of coastline in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | The hypothesis that can explain bat navigation is a good candidate for explaining anything in the world of life , and if Paley 's explanation for any one of his examples was wrong we ca n't make it right by multiplying up examples . |
| 7 | Erm and that was just an excu h him being expelled for driving someone into town was simply an excuse because he 'd been caught so many other times . |
| 8 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 9 | Activity in any single unit can farm part of many representations and the inactivity of a cell can be just as important for representing something as its activity . |
| 10 | They first went to The Hitman in Blackpool after seeing one on TV and have since been to at least 10 of the shows . |
| 11 | An interest in kestrels had developed among a group of boys after seeing one in a London street during a school trip . |
| 12 | There is a further cause-effect or condition-effect relation to be noted , but it will be best to do so after noting one between causal circumstance and effect , implied already . |
| 13 | In general L and P are not equal and it is therefore reasonable to ask if there are theoretical reasons for favouring one over the other . |
| 14 | I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses . |
| 15 | But as for meeting somebody with whom you could be together , well , I would n't say no to that … |
| 16 | ‘ It has provided a mechanism for formalising everything in writing so people are very clear about what is expected of them . |
| 17 | The means of salvaging something of the disposition is to recognize that so far as the daughter has benefited under her father 's will she may be obliged by a trust . |
| 18 | A year ago , Everton 's only hope of salvaging anything from a miserable season evaporated when they lost at Stamford Bridge in an FA Cup tie . |
| 19 | Critical for hooking Alphas and VAXes , DEC said the platform would be protocol-independent , capable of handling everything from multi-vendor PC LANs to multi-vendor mainframes . |
| 20 | She felt delightfully relaxed and slightly unreal , and her mouth seemed incapable of shaping anything but a broad smile . |
| 21 | But — ‘ The chances of seeing one without being shown by the Warden are nil , ’ warns John Gooders in his book , Where to Watch Birds . |
| 22 | And to the possibility of seeing something of the Sicilian town . |
| 23 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 24 | They would never have understood , would have perhaps backed away from the possibility of seeing anything but the smiling , assured , beautiful and wealthy Alyssia Stanley . |
| 25 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
| 26 | He can still settle or ask the court to award damages on the old basis of including something for the future risk . |
| 27 | I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing . |
| 28 | With the possibility of recouping anything from Barclaycard , many have felt tempted to play . |
| 29 | Even if you ca n't afford organic produce the benefits of eating plenty of ordinary fresh fruit , vegetables and cereals far outweigh any risks from the chemical residues . |
| 30 | In complete contrast , Debbie 's unique brew of distorted guitar noise , which she likes to refer to as ‘ pure filth ’ , comes as the result of crashing everything through as many effects as possible . |