Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom 's work mostly involves checking for sharp teeth and rasping them smooth . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd rather stay talking to you . ’ |
| 3 | The aquarium is a prime example of an out-of-date building which badly needs bringing into the 1990's . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you secretly enjoy getting in my hair ? ’ |
| 5 | The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men , in the which the pure Word of God is preached , and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ 's ordinance … |
| 6 | The Haldane Report ( 1918 ) on the machinery of central government , which has since dominated thinking on the design of central government , examined a number of these criteria and recommended the distribution of government work on the basis of functions performed . |
| 7 | The pagans think it important to propitiate gods with sacrifices , yet they have no idea which is the most powerful of them , so that they might be offending the one who most needs propitiating by paying him insufficient attention . |
| 8 | And he would probably rather enjoy looking after a woman , even one he had as little time for as her . |
| 9 | These levels need not necessarily correspond to autonomous modules within any computational implementation , but rather organised according to whatever configuration is most appropriate for the particular application . |
| 10 | Stocks are now generally big enough to sustain rabbiting in all its forms . |
| 11 | ‘ There was no need to think she 'd noticed anything , and whoever he was , he was n't mad enough to go looking for extra murders . |
| 12 | At le weekend some Brownies might play le football and some may be lucky enough to go sailing on un yacht . |
| 13 | At Church Bridge people were paddling in the still pools beside the running water and throwing sticks out into the mainstream which reluctant dogs stared at and barked as though to say , " I may be daft but I 'm not daft enough to go splashing through that lot . " |
| 14 | I thought I was the only one mad enough to go walking in this weather . ’ |
| 15 | Work was highly differentiated according to sex . |
| 16 | Failing to do all the IMF wanted was one thing : escaping the exigencies of dependence on foreign credit , if only to continue financing of trade , was quite another . |
| 17 | The girls only stopped laughing by the time they had reached the convent gates . |
| 18 | Your best bet is to seek out specialist footwear which will prove safe and comfortable in use , although not overspecified for the walking you have in mind — in other words , do n't buy a pair of heavy duty mountain boots if you only intend going for walks on country lanes ! |
| 19 | Certainly neither the KGB nor the GRU are going to stop spying , for that would leave them as exposed to criticism as if the CIA suddenly stopped spying on Russia . |
| 20 | ‘ We only met walking round Aurae Phiala yesterday , and then found we were both staying at the same pub . |
| 21 | Shareholder , investment analyst and press criticism of Philips Analytical 's performance over the past two years — not all justified according to Peter Jackson , regional manager for northern Europe — led the company to take a long , hard look at itself . |
| 22 | Elizabeth Daunton much enjoyed staying with Ann Toulmin in Oxford and attending a Somerville reunion . |
| 23 | We were both in the travel business and neither of us much enjoyed working for someone else . |
| 24 | It can be constantly modified according to its effect and thus the social function dominates the logical . |
| 25 | We had all enjoyed working through it with him . |
| 26 | The proliferation of this literature has so simplified going into our wilderness areas that readers are literally taken by the hand . |
| 27 | The flashing tape is supplied in various widths , and only needs cutting to length with an old pair of scissors |
| 28 | Directors will only act according to professional standards of behaviour and the range of decisions available to them will be indicated by their own expertise . |
| 29 | Work on voting behaviour in Great Britain in the 1980s illustrates this , with the class divide much distorted according to power in the market place , which in turn has become increasingly spatially variable : Johnston and Pattie , 1988 , 1990 . ) |
| 30 | That incident probably made John 's triumph all the sweeter a few months later , when he gleefully described flirting with a particularly desirable man , one of the supposed ringleaders of the earlier occasion . |