Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the '70s many elements were fusing together making change in the way schools were run inevitable . |
| 2 | In the same year , most of the county councils within the Severn-Trent region were carrying out some agricultural land-drainage work , and private farmers , even without drainage grants , were bringing in dredging machinery on rivers , to get water off their land . |
| 3 | Public toilet facilities at Ostia , Port of Rome , second to fourth century A.D. Marble seating over running water supply |
| 4 | Why go storming off wasting money on another place to stay ? ’ |
| 5 | In the circumstances , we are talking about a vast subsidy from taxpayers ' money in some form to stop that flagging out taking place . |
| 6 | Young people today do n't want to spend their time stooging around playing cribbage with the old folks in the village hall . |
| 7 | Yesterday National Grid confirmed that talks were going on involving money . |
| 8 | Cows lying down heralding rain and swallows flying high signalling good weather are two of the many indications that people have followed . |
| 9 | Compared with a survey carried out in 1985 , Inform found that many companies had switched their emphasis from cleaning up polluting waste to cutting it out at source . |
| 10 | And I thinks to myself well I might as well be going out earning money if they 're not in bed . |
| 11 | And then she was going out making money on munitions . |
| 12 | She says delays from the Department of Social Security in paying out housing benefit have given her financial problems . |
| 13 | Russ Tamblyn appeared in cowboy boots and a fully grown Afro hairdo , and actor Severn Darden , who had just learned his next job was to play the lead in a revival of Dracula , was going around practising vampire attacks on every female member of the cast . |
| 14 | Albert : Things … like going around smashing milk bottles . |
| 15 | He was just lying there watching telly and reading the paper and |
| 16 | Yes er I remember a chap at the depot doing the Spanish Civil War er wh th there was a movement going round collecting food for the , or money for food for the children of Spain . |
| 17 | I mean going round selling stuff and that sort of thing , they 're asking them , they 're doing a man 's job |
| 18 | They might typically include many invisible metaphors , requiring much inferencing effort . |
| 19 | By concentrating on pebbles carried down from alpine sources in the beds of rivers and streams , full advantage could be taken of the erosive power of water in wearing away adhering rock and concentrating the sought after greenstone . |
| 20 | When we are told there is a shortage of floppy disks , what they ought to be doing is sending out working printing saving and using versions of their programs that we can load 10–20 times then said software will commit Hari Kari . |
| 21 | With the support of the government agriculture research institute ( INIAP ) in Ecuador , I would have systematically to travel through the Amazon region of Ecuador , locating the wild cocoa and bringing back planting material to my base at the Napo Research Station . |
| 22 | We 're giving away backpacking sleeping bags worth £25 each . |
| 23 | That homework should last approximately half an hour or whatever it consists of , erm reading , written work , finishing off drawing research whatever that homework should be handed in the next day , form teachers to remind classes of this and to co-ordinate delivery of the books , papers etcetera to the member of teaching staff and that the non production of homework is to be the concern of the member of of teaching staff and not the form teacher , although regular non producers will be the concern of us all . |
| 24 | After giving up teaching home economics , because ‘ it went sour and , at 40 , I felt the need to take stock , ’ Lorna started up on her own , designing curtains . |
| 25 | Meeting Steve the stamp man from Surbiton or Billy from the back of beyond or travelling around attending street parties and generally being gawped at by the Press and the populace is not my idea of whooping it up . |
| 26 | Except when you are hobbling around dispatching shot after shot into the beautifully manicured lakes thoughtfully scattered around the landscape , leaving a trail of Band-Aids in your wake . |
| 27 | His early release was conditional on him taking up labouring work with a state owned construction company in Ostrava . |
| 28 | Erm asks for an indication of whether you are likely to be taking up teaching service after retirement . |
| 29 | One of the most enthusiastic authorities taking up housing action trusts has been Liverpool city council . |
| 30 | certainly knocking on strangers doors , and er demanding Almost demanding money erm or they 'll do something perhaps quite unpleasant to someone . |