Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I am twittering on about buying a new workshop , equipping it with this or that kind of planer/thicknesser , getting this or that panel saw . |
| 2 | They 're on about putting a road round back of there . |
| 3 | It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success . |
| 4 | They 're making so much noise I think we could be in danger of being moved on for creating a public disturbance . ’ |
| 5 | If you fight on after sustaining a head injury and then receive a further blow to the head , the damage caused by the initial impact will be multiplied several times over ! |
| 6 | Lizards and geckos are equipped with sharp claws and gripping toe pads to help them cling on after making a crash landing on a tree . |
| 7 | Impressionistically , however , the courts seem more reluctant now to use customs and usages to imply contract terms , although this is possibly because they do not draw the distinction clearly enough between mod-ifying a contract and understanding its terms . |
| 8 | It is perhaps worth mentioning a recently developed crag which is just off the Moustiers road , about four kilometres outside La Palud . |
| 9 | In relation to the ‘ content versus form ’ issue , it is perhaps worth mentioning a possible link with the more general debate about what is called ‘ moral reasoning ’ . |
| 10 | Having stressed the problems , it is perhaps worth taking a look at the advantages . |
| 11 | It is perhaps worth taking a minute or two to invite the Secretary of State to answer those arguments in his reply and to explain how they have been overcome in the new council tax system . |
| 12 | ‘ Senior officials in the Executive have spoken a great deal and written much about delivering a quality service . |
| 13 | At this early stage in your video career , do n't worry too much about making a complete record of the day . |
| 14 | Do n't worry too much about giving a good speech . |
| 15 | Just such a device was available in the shape of AM Varityper 's VT600 , a PostScript 600dpi plain paper page printer , although it was only through reading a year 's worth of back copies of the Desktop Publisher newsletter that Tony Gamble ever found out about it . |
| 16 | But such data gain significance only through serving a larger enquiry , for example into how children have a better understanding of a problem ( or person ) through role-play , or how a raw experience may be organised through a particular approach to writing . |
| 17 | Only through becoming a continuing ‘ reflective practitioner ’ can the student and graduate — avoid succumbing naively to conventional ‘ wisdom ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think I care very much for having a foreigner telling the White House , the Pentagon and the FBI how to run their business . ’ |
| 19 | Thank you very much for making a further valuable contribution to the work of our Tourism Group . |
| 20 | The four basic relations between classes furnish a model not only for establishing a fundamental group of sense relations , but also for defining a set of systematic variants applicable to virtually all other paradigmatic sense relations . |
| 21 | He was going to carpet her not only for arresting a part-time MI6 agent for murder without sufficient evidence , but also for fraternising with the ‘ funnies ’ between the sheets . |
| 22 | Would anyone like to get together about starting a paper , it said , if so , meet with Wilcock . |
| 23 | he said he said what he 's gon na do is erm is he 's got his name down for buying a trailer for it as well |
| 24 | AN Ulster school is considering action against its town 's deputy mayor for saying it should be shut down for teaching a new sex education project . |
| 25 | An egalitarian mixture of social realism and modernism , the Festival conjured up a real sense of design direction : it was all about building a better environment for everyone , with stylish cars , labour-saving gadgets and buildings that were easier to inhabit . |
| 26 | These are 30 ’ x 21 ’ and are much less about recording a particular view and more about trying to come to terms with the atmosphere and structure of the place . |
| 27 | Elephants , after all , could n't care less about winning a BBC WILDLIFE popularity contest . |
| 28 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |
| 29 | Even with myself , I 'm all for painting a frank portrait . |
| 30 | Alejandro was all for putting a bullet through this she-devil 's head and dispatching her to the nearest abattoir . |