Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it was the way they sort of checked all the way round the car park as if they were looking to see which would be the best . |
| 2 | Dillon LJ said that " if one condition in a set of printed conditions is particularly onerous or unusual , the party seeking to enforce it must show that that particular condition was fairly brought to the attention of the other party " . |
| 3 | Anyone wanting to receive it should inform Gail or Mrs Jean Pert . |
| 4 | On any footing , it must , in my judgment , be too broad a proposition to suggest that an owner who retains a piece of land with a view to its utilisation for a specific purpose in the future can never be treated as dispossessed , however firm and obvious the intention and however drastic the act of dispossession of the person seeking to dispossess him may be . |
| 5 | Rod said : ‘ I was shocked to be told that if I had waited any longer before seeking help I would not have survived . |
| 6 | Even though I may be in a minority , I feel quite strongly that the job of the record companies is to issue recordings of music at prices the music loving public can afford — not to enhance that price by paying for learned disquisitions seeking to explain what ought to need no explanation . |
| 7 | Given the different political cultures that exist , seeking to anticipate what would happen in Britain on the basis of experience abroad is an undertaking of limited usefulness . |
| 8 | But that is we we 're going to go We 'll on Wednesday officially we 'll be on the new green . |
| 9 | Within the room a meeting of the Coal Club was in progress , while in the shadows , others of my uncles crouched , waiting to see what would happen . ) |
| 10 | Sam hovered , waiting to see what would follow , but Thacker seemed to be in a good mood . |
| 11 | The rest of the barrack was absolutely quiet , waiting to see what would happen . |
| 12 | Morale among the British troops is good and everyone is waiting to see what will happen . |
| 13 | In this war of nerves , it was infinitely reassuring to know she could at least get the occasional barb past that glacial exterior . |
| 14 | People argue that if you do n't know the people you are going to meet you ca n't plan how best to behave . |
| 15 | I said that I thought they were wrong ; but that if that was their reason for declining to serve I could only accept it and be sorry . |
| 16 | it 's got me going up to Alex saying er er no one wants to do it with me and he 's going look I 'll sleep with you man so I 'm going |
| 17 | Jane , 41 , said : ‘ I told them , ‘ If you are going to swear you might as well do it properly ’ . |
| 18 | And now I am going to have to tell you WHAT TO DO and WHAT NOT TO DO , but this time it 's a bit different because the DOs and DON'Ts that I am going to give you may easily SAVE YOUR LIFE . |
| 19 | You what you 're going to do I 'll explain briefly . |
| 20 | But do n't forget this this is a very important time with the all the increase coming in they 've got a helluva lot to take on , not just learning the company but they got the new routes and everything and it 's going to leave I would 've thought very short in an exceptionally busy period |
| 21 | ‘ Certainly not Chrissie Rogers let's face it , if she was going to leave she would have gone the day AFTER the ceremony . |
| 22 | Yes that does n't exclude but includes all of that , but at the same time although everybody that 's going to read it may not understand the intricacies of it all as professionals we 're giving more than a passing nod , so that was something else , er er and something more involved than English teacher than making them jump through loops |
| 23 | He says that if he 's going to overshoot he 'll use a sea anchor or drop a stern anchor and if he stops short of us he 'll send a crew with a rope . |
| 24 | Well I 'm not going to count we 'll make a we 'll make a guess alright ? |
| 25 | What do you mean wondering bet you would dad , I bet you would . |
| 26 | We 're not sure whether any further written representation or representations or evidence of any kind are going to arrive which might concern us , but we ca n't discount that possibility . |
| 27 | In fact I considered if I was going to die it might as well be in my own quarters . |
| 28 | If you 're not going to marry you must feel that there 's opportunity to use the gifts and abilities you have . " |
| 29 | But if you 're going to fail you 'll do it full-face on , not flinching , not whining . |
| 30 | The following diagram should illustrate through a simplified example : Inhabitants of Caloria Inhabitants of Frigorix Good at fishing Grow crops Reliant on fossil fuels Use solar power for all machinery When they get to the new planet , Terra Nova , they find that the fish are abundant , but the soil wo n't support crops ; although the sun shines , there are no fossil fuels — so if the groups are going to survive they will need to share their technology and skills . |