Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although two points clear of the pack , the writing is on the wall for Aberdeen unless someone starts banging goals away . |
| 2 | I wrote to this lot up here , and questioned it , and all of a sudden the ball starts bouncing , somebody starts supporting Fulham . |
| 3 | Everybody talks in a mixture of mumbling whispers and hysterical screams , and every time somebody starts making small-talk it means they 're about to kill somebody . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ Nobody enjoys taking part in any sport which is restricted and , in effect , this will be a one-mile marathon . ’ |
| 5 | Nobody enjoys selling membership , but it is vital , for without a healthy membership the Society will not flourish . |
| 6 | Then , how long before somebody proposes giving points for undersized fish that did not make the undersize fish measure ? |
| 7 | ‘ Everyone keeps throwing Bruno 's name into the pot , but why just him ? |
| 8 | So everyone takes avoiding action . |
| 9 | One involves incorporating dUTP instead of dTTP into reaction products . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , but one starts training housemaids and cooks at twelve and thirteen , ’ said Miss Mates gently , but at the same time she was thinking of her own problems in finding and keeping satisfactory girls , and Miss McAllister looked both strong and willing . |
| 11 | Kenner is a strong believer in digital recording techniques , although he thinks the greatest danger with hi-fi purism is that one starts splitting hairs . |
| 12 | Well there might be er and that 's the trouble when one starts doing philosophy and there 's real study of language , it gets really difficult . |
| 13 | THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING REASONABLE No one wants departing employees to take the firm 's best clients with them , but courts will not always uphold restraint clauses |
| 14 | Naturally the effect becomes more pronounced when one wears polarizing glasses . |
| 15 | ‘ When one 's first married , ’ he says , ‘ when one 's first down from the university , one keeps striking attitudes . |
| 16 | If one excludes cooking utensils , rugs are perhaps the only form of furnishing conducive to this nomadic way of life , because , when spread on the floor , they provide both a comfortable place to sit and a sanitary surface from which to eat food . |
| 17 | One will not arrive at the concept ‘ mass ’ through observation alone , however closely one scrutinizes colliding billiard-balls , weights on springs , orbiting planets , etc. , nor is it possible to teach others the meaning of mass merely by pointing to such events . |
| 18 | No one likes paying tax but it has to be paid . |
| 19 | ‘ No one likes paying tax , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ No one likes coming face to face with their mistakes , ’ he growled . |
| 21 | As Villa wait for a fitness check on £1.1 million Republic of Ireland defender Steve Staunton , Atkinson warned : ‘ No one relishes playing Wimbledon . |
| 22 | On Monday morning everybody starts posting data into the database through the application interface and Fred 's posting in data at fifteen percent V A T , everybody else is posting in the data at seventeen and a half percent V A T. So we 're looking at a two and a half percent margin . |
| 23 | Elephants : if you actually shoot elephants in a controlled way you may in fact preserve the species , and that is something that has been done , though it is less important if everybody avoids using ivory and it is not worth killing the elephants at all . |