Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana 's father , who already had a reputation locally for organizing splendid fireworks ' displays on Guy Fawkes Night , laid on a wonderful party for her seventh birthday . |
| 2 | Unless the new pitch is going to be pretty hard wearing , prospects for staging Euro 96 , and perhaps more importantly for playing good football over the next couple of seasons , do not look good ! ! |
| 3 | But the Raskolnikov of the notebooks who joked grimly about getting used to being married and having children will do that average and earthy thing , though in a different spirit ; and in another story , as the Epilogue tells us . |
| 4 | The lawmakers prattle on about wanting greater continuity . |
| 5 | I well I 'm on about doing some stuff I am cos I ca n't get , ca n't find what I want , build my own yeah |
| 6 | Well there was erm during the eighties , for instance , there was a lot of talk going on about having some changes within the constitution . |
| 7 | Here 's him — no parents , no roof over his head , on the streets , sleeping God knows where — and here 's me moaning on about waiting sixteen hours for my boy-friend to ring and being terrified that Mummy and Daddy 'll tell me off when I get back to the Nest . |
| 8 | They made me feel like a dirty slag and serve me right for getting pregnant . |
| 9 | The authorities seemed to be doing little about tackling this social problem . |
| 10 | Well perhaps a few , well-intentioned people like Jesse Helms [ the senator who criticised the NEA vigorously for allocating public funds to pornographic and blasphemous art ] might have said these things are disgusting . |
| 11 | They can be used very effectively for gaining automatic control when problems are caused by mismatch of word order or of a function word . |
| 12 | The response to the questionnaire about training has been very satisfactory and it has provided the Training Committee with plenty of information to work on for planning future training programmes . |
| 13 | Those interested in Provençal paintings should move on after seeing this show to the newly reopened Musée national des Monuments français in Paris , which is showing some of the same artists in an exhibition on Marseille until 5 July ( see p. 8 ) . |
| 14 | Diarrhoeas that come on after taking cold . |
| 15 | He was disqualified for leaning on after receiving three warnings in the third round of an absorbing light middleweight semi-final against John Mett of the Phil Thomas School of Boxing . |
| 16 | He finished second to Duke Of Monmouth in the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham in March , and will be spot on after finishing fifth on the Flat in the Leopardstown November Handicap . |
| 17 | ( In his reply , Karajan pointed out that as two men had died whilst conducting Tristan und Isolde , both more or less in the same place in the score , it was perhaps worth sponsoring some medical research into the subject . ) |
| 18 | Finally , it is perhaps worth concluding this section by emphasizing that there is still much controversy among the scientific community about the magnitude of many of the effects being discussed . |
| 19 | And as ag I will , I 'll be returning to this obviously in consideration of Italy and Germany , but it is perhaps worth making this point now . |
| 20 | I do n't want to say much about making any decision . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps you should have concerned yourself as much about avoiding emotional involvement yourself as about protecting me , ’ she said , and her voice was still sharp . |
| 22 | Play this with a lot of attack , and do n't worry too much about hitting any adjacent strings accidentally . |
| 23 | I have n't been referred to a rheumatologist , as I 've been told that I 'm very young and prone to worrying too much about becoming disabled . |
| 24 | Thanks very much for bringing that to our attention . |
| 25 | ‘ Thank you so much for seeing that . |
| 26 | ‘ Thank you so much for getting those books for me . ’ |
| 27 | Thank you very much for discussing this and opening up watch , what is , too often a a a taboo area . |
| 28 | Thank you very much for asking all the questions and thank you very much for working so hard for Tony . |
| 29 | Well , thank you very much for explaining this to us , Dr Smith . |
| 30 | For instance– ‘ Thanks very much for making that suggestion — do you want to say ally more about it ? ’ |