Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were n't worth keeping so I swapped them for a couple of balloons . ’ |
| 2 | For Marie , this was a constant source of worry , because she had continually to choose between understanding fully what she was doing , by asking demonstrators for help , and risking losing marks , or by not asking and floundering further and further in the experiment . |
| 3 | Jack Lewis was about to embark on his professional career as a college tutor at Magdalen ; and since not everyone is familiar with the way Oxford functions , it might be worth explaining exactly what his work was going to entail . |
| 4 | After tearing both my ACL and MCL ( medial collateral ligament ) in a skiing accident last season , I decided to take the latter course and found that I could ski relatively safely with the aid of a brace . |
| 5 | If you hear someone claiming to believe something but even after listening carefully it never becomes clear exactly what he believes or why , you are surely entitled to wonder if his belief is valid at all . |
| 6 | Following his own desires and urges he lay on straw in his freezing barn , after giving away his bed , his decent clothes , and his sound shoes . |
| 7 | Her mother suspected she was going back to Portugal after cutting short her daughter 's recent holiday there because of the romance . |
| 8 | Ms Gibson , 31 , was arrested on Tuesday night after cutting short her month-long holiday and flying home . |
| 9 | After coming here I worked for four months in a sweet factory in Stratford . |
| 10 | When I came home late after working overtime they 'd say , ‘ she is not a good woman we must not keep her in our house . ’ |
| 11 | Ruth went up to her bedroom to lie down after clearing away her lunch things . |
| 12 | just , he lives in somebody 's basement of a house , and like , in return for living there he fills the guy 's freezer up with lobster , crab , you know |
| 13 | ‘ The point is , I 'm wondering about living here myself . ’ |
| 14 | Foucault recognizes in Deleuze 's account of events as singularities , points or intensities on a surface ready to be actualized in any particular form or meaning , the potential for pushing further his own notion of history as a genealogical series . |
| 15 | If you are familiar with your local school of nursing then you can write directly either to the director of nurse education or to the tutor for postbasic education based at the school . |
| 16 | If you are familiar with your local school or college of nursing then you can write to the director of nurse education for information on courses run , entry requirements and availability of places . |
| 17 | Finn had at last wrenched Bothwell free but at the cost of tearing apart his controls ; in a spiky halo of torn wire , Bothwell crumpled to the floor . |
| 18 | ‘ I have no intention whatever of signing away my inheritance , ’ she informed him coldly . |
| 19 | I waited for a while but he did n't show any sign of appearing so I went outside . |
| 20 | Any claim to ‘ special knowledge ’ through faith or revelation or grace can not avoid the task of explaining just what this knowledge is knowledge of . |
| 21 | But this abolishes , in effect the distinction between particulars and universals , while leaving us with the problem of explaining just what is meant by " different " places and " different " times . |
| 22 | are departments will be given an opportunity of explaining precisely what their development does for the village ? |
| 23 | And why I sit here , husbandless , dependent upon social security supplemented by such pitiful amounts of money as I can wring out of the national press , and Bernard genuflects once more , fled back to his baptismal church , terrified by the very notion of living outside it . |
| 24 | our standard of living Well our standard of living was alright . |
| 25 | Pushing on with his plans is , therefore , his best means of keeping faith with them ; it is also the only sure way of establishing just what Beijing is prepared to do . |
| 26 | Like many Throwing Muses tracks ‘ Not Too Soon ’ is an almost painfully introspective piece of writing yet it moves and shakes with all the swagger of glib pop . |
| 27 | So what you need to do is rather than have a big block of writing okay which is going to look not really in the format of this kind of newspaper is it ? what you tend to get in the tabloids is loads of these little ones . |
| 28 | This is another way of saying that we need some good way of defining exactly what we mean by true braininess . |
| 29 | The first spin-off effect arises quite simply because of the difficulty of defining exactly what is a package holiday or tour . |
| 30 | The second problem is the more general difficulty of defining exactly what relationship should be expected between automaticity and memory . |