Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn glanced down at the chopping-board ; cooking for him would be bad enough , but others ? |
| 2 | Cooking for one can sometimes be a dreary business , and many elderly people on their own do not eat the right types of food to maintain health . |
| 3 | However , Echo is promising to cut ports to a matter of days , or at worst weeks , lopping off what could be years of development time in moving from one architecture to another . |
| 4 | Bill Clinton 's advisors gathered at the White House to face yet another foreign policy challenge , proposing the use of U S naval power to enforce sanctions against Haiti and at the United Nations , U S diplomats were pressing for what would be a virtual blockade of the island . |
| 5 | There are a number of University Scholarships as well and those interested in applying for them should inform the Faculty and write to the Secretary to the University . |
| 6 | ‘ Disposing of him wo n't be easy . ’ |
| 7 | for example , just walking with her could be troublesome . |
| 8 | I if you 're driving along you can throw out the balance of the car . |
| 9 | But there 's a big difference in my view between the sort of regular abuse and assaults on staff in a Casualty Department and somebody walking into what should have been a locked ward on a children 's unit in a hospital at two o'clock in the morning . |
| 10 | It is time , now , to offer a conspectus of the positions which English adjectives may take , and what the functions of the adjectives appearing in them may be . |
| 11 | She spent most of her time weeping and wailing to whoever would listen to her — and she really did go ‘ Boo-hoo ! ’ exactly as it is written in the books . |
| 12 | This is the main driveway up here , opening on what used to be a road down to Florence . ’ |
| 13 | Disclosing what 's happening to you can make you feel better and , as described earlier in this chapter , it can also raise your status : ‘ I feel quite tongue-tied in this company ’ or ‘ That comment 's made me go quite red ! ’ |
| 14 | However , it is in the various statements indicating the extent to which managerial prerogative is constrained in this context that differences of emphasis have emerged relating to what should be looked at in the assessment of the employer 's reasonableness in dismissing ‘ refuseniks ’ |
| 15 | wild looking as you would say it now . |
| 16 | We estimate that the TOTAL COST to each group ordering through us will be £50.00 — a saving of £20.00 . |
| 17 | ‘ The killings were duly lawful and the defence acting for us will be making that point . ’ |
| 18 | However , since the company itself can only act through human agents , a transaction carried out for the benefit of the company , will mean that those acting for it will be liable under the CSA 1985 . |
| 19 | If that 's what you 've been looking for you could have saved yourself the trouble . |
| 20 | Whatever you 're looking for you can find it in York . |
| 21 | Erm , even if you inherit some spreadsheets from this person that 's left , that 's useful knowledge because you do n't have to spend time searching for whoever might have created this spreadsheet . |
| 22 | Present evidence suggests that the numbers of the elderly who will find difficulties in looking after themselves will therefore increase : for example , about 20 per cent of the 80-and-over group are likely to suffer from dementia ( Grundy , 1986 ) . |
| 23 | Since the majority of elderly people requiring help are women , then a great deal of the responsibility for looking after them will fall on women 's shoulders . |
| 24 | Looking after me would be a burden to Colette . |
| 25 | Two women looking like you would be impossible . ’ |
| 26 | For the rest of us , coming to terms with our grey hair and living with it may be a practical way of encouraging us to come to terms with our chronological age and of easing ourselves into a new age group . |
| 27 | He was living in what would traditionally be described as reduced circumstances . |
| 28 | We are living in what may well come to be known as the age of the American soprano , with Norman , Studer , Millo , Vaness , Hendricks , Battle , Bonney and Upshaw all doing conspicuously well for themselves on disc . |
| 29 | If the community itself becomes prosperous , the people living in it will have more money to spend on the goods and services being provided by the companies . |
| 30 | If they narrowly miss death themselves and their shadow is " hit " by a car , or " gored " by a buffalo , they believe the evil spirit living in it will be destroyed . |