Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm phoning to arrange a time … |
| 2 | In this way information is gradually built up , helping to paint a picture of the lives and lifestyles of the birds which appear so dramatically in the islands . |
| 3 | Daniel Carey returned to Frizingley as its Chartist Candidate entirely by chance , the gentleman who had originally been selected to fight the by-election having taken up a longish residence in jail on charges of plug-drawing and helping to demolish a workhouse near Rochdale . |
| 4 | ‘ Woman with a heavy period , demanding to see a gynaecologist before she bleeds to death . |
| 5 | Likewise seeing involves a seer and a person or thing seen . |
| 6 | Even then the director had to make changes as the backers insisted that the story of an impoverished farmer galvanizing a group of the unemployed into helping make a success of things was combined with a more conventional sex angle . |
| 7 | When the haoles took everything , surfing became a gesture of revolt , a symbolic reassertion of power over superior forces . |
| 8 | ‘ The artist Cadogan 's was sponsoring to attend a symposium or something . |
| 9 | They sat in the cold front room , not daring to light a fire in the strange house . |
| 10 | Protected by the noise , which surely signified the most hideously active stoking the world had ever seen , I began to search about , even daring to light a flambeau , which was all this ground floor seemed to warrant in the way of illumination . |
| 11 | This existing history of ‘ miraculous ’ cures is just a hint of what may be available to the human mind struggling to find a way to greater self-help in coping with ill health and adversity , if only the vitally necessary ‘ faith ’ were more easily grasped and held on to . |
| 12 | With some innovative thinking on the way new energy taxes are applied , Mr Lamont might even give a helping hand to Michael Heseltine , the President of the Board of Trade , who is struggling to find a way out of the controversy over plans for pit closures . |
| 13 | Johnny Miller is one of a handful of cricket fanzines struggling to find a readership on the fringe of the mainstream of cricket consciousness . |
| 14 | Needless to say voluntary bodies are very nervous about that , because they have difficulty contracting to provide a service when they are totally dependent on unpaid volunteers , and therefore there is reluctance on their part to , to enter into contracts that bind them to provide something where they are uncertain about their ability to do it . |
| 15 | The computer we are using has a precision of six decimal figures . |
| 16 | The two senior churches pour millions into the education system of this country , helping to provide a quarter of the nation 's schools . |
| 17 | Unfortunately it turned out to be somewhat of an anti-climax when a rubber dinghy with two occupants was found to be from a Fishery Protection vessel , the two officers concerned were landing to attend a wedding . |
| 18 | And the midfielder is also bidding to continue a scoring streak that has seen him hit the target in his last four League matches . |
| 19 | Another approach is provided by researchers who have recently been attempting to model driving using a production system architecture ( e.g. Aasman , 1988 ; Hale , Stoop & Hommels , 1990 ; Michon 1988 ) . |
| 20 | I 'm endeavouring to acquire a passion for plastic . |
| 21 | Like my hon. Friend , I pay tribute to the efforts of Lord Carrington and others within the Community who have been endeavouring to obtain a ceasefire , and to the efforts made by Mr. Cyrus Vance . |
| 22 | While endeavouring to find a title for my first book , Colin Harvey , the publisher , suggested ‘ Poems for Daffodil Teas ’ . |
| 23 | He had opened the loose-box door and disappeared inside , returning leading a bay horse of about fifteen hands by the halter . |
| 24 | ‘ Come and join me , ’ he suggested , tearing open a pack of sugar . |
| 25 | Tearing open a pocket in her bag , she took out the offending objects and thrust them towards Rourke . |
| 26 | This ‘ Doyler ’ fellow talks about the break-up of his marriage as though we 're expected to feel sorry for him , rather than cracking open a jerobaum of Bollinger , and saying ‘ you did the right thing there , my man . |
| 27 | PATSY Kensit , above , flew into Heathrow yesterday after signing to play a bank robber in a Hollywood movie . |
| 28 | ARFU officials and Wallabies can not fathom the Home Unions ' inflexibility on the issue , particularly since the ARFU allowed England to interrupt their tour of Australia last year to play two matches in Fiji before returning to play a Test in Sydney . |
| 29 | Little research has studied adults who got to the stage of applying to do a course but who then did not enrol for it . |
| 30 | Families of servicemen returning found a system not geared up to help . |