Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would wait five miles ahead , not daring to go further because of my leg . |
| 2 | WHITBREAD yesterday denied that the 12 deals it is finalising to lease more than 1,000 pubs to regional brewers and pub chains go against government orders , aimed at loosening the big brewers ' tie . |
| 3 | ‘ I literally found about our endorsement of used motor-oil from someone I was phoning to find out whether the stuff was OK , ’ says the group 's Education Programme Co-ordinator at the time , Dave Bruer . |
| 4 | ‘ What was that ? ’ asked Riley , endeavouring to keep up as the big man strode up the steps to the station concourse . |
| 5 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 6 | It 's not so long ago that Kilmarnock were talking about wanting to go up as champions and look at them now . |
| 7 | Yeah , it 'll be better next though cos erm Carl wo n't be wanting to sit in cos , er Carl wo n't have a portable coloured T V next year . |
| 8 | You mean you do n't approve of someone wanting to find out where his only remaining relative is ? ’ |
| 9 | Three would involve complex skeletal and muscular problems tending to impede rather than improve mobility . |
| 10 | Tears starting into her own eyes , Julia waited , not wanting to walk away while they were both silent . |
| 11 | If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome . |
| 12 | Those wanting to voyage further than comparatively familiar delicacies such as coppa , pancetta or fennel-flavoured salami , should look upwards . |
| 13 | William was next and jumped feet first , so he does a flip half way down ; and Matthew looking distinctly queasy on the platform but not wanting to back out after the others had already done it ! |
| 14 | Cooke said : ‘ My motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world . |
| 15 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 16 | Many were seeking to get out while they could , so many indeed that Ramsay feared that they must be seen by the blockading English ships lying off , for the July night was less dark than he could have wished . |
| 17 | In the UK policy has typically followed the second route , seeking to regulate rather than remove monopolies . |
| 18 | That does not mean plummeting house prices — the old adage about most people simply refusing to move rather than sell their house for less than they paid for it remains as true as ever . |
| 19 | Liberal Democrat candidate Suzanne Fletcher said if her party were in power they would bring in a new type of rented housing , called partnership housing , which would cater for middle income groups wanting to rent rather than buy , built through public and private money . |
| 20 | Liberal Democrat candidate Suzanne Fletcher said if her party were in power they would bring in a new type of rented housing , called partnership housing , which would cater for middle income groups wanting to rent rather than buy , built through public and private money . |
| 21 | A lot of people just think by definition the world is going to carry on as it is today , but it does n't . |
| 22 | X is going to go up when Y is a million . |
| 23 | So it 's all going to go ahead as per the script . |
| 24 | But he was alert and sparkling , his motor well and truly turned on by the presence of Catherine Crane , and he probably was n't going to go home till he , or Catherine , dropped in their tracks . |
| 25 | ‘ But we 're not just going to sit here until they come for us ? ’ |
| 26 | Phil has booked it and now we 're going to miss out because you 've forgotten me . |
| 27 | We 're going to retire here as soon as we 've sold our house . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That big fashion gala we 've got scheduled for Paris is going to fall through unless you have a word with the organisers . |
| 29 | Kath was terrified , but there was no way she was going to fall off unless she took Jack with her ! |
| 30 | I was n't going to struggle on if I was going to die in six months ! |