Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theodosiou was the first to go for stamping in the 72nd minute and Greg Downs followed after protesting at a penalty decision . |
| 2 | Since methylation of Dcm seems to proceed through binding of SAM to the active site ( see above ) it seemed plausible that this reaction may be stimulated by the presence of DNA . |
| 3 | Against a Bristol side content to cruise through experimenting with back-row moves and threequarter combinations , Irish too often fumbled and scrambled . |
| 4 | have to go through looking through them every time you want something . |
| 5 | The latter would have overall administrative control and would be responsible to MEHQ for advising on technical and operational matters . |
| 6 | She instantly strode across the shop and took a book from among thousands and assured me that it contained all I would ever need to know about cooking for ever . |
| 7 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 8 | A prospectus is a sort of handbook which is supposed to tell you and your parents everything that you need to know about surviving at your school . |
| 9 | We will tell you all you need to know about surviving despite the twentieth-century diet , and the real facts about obesity . |
| 10 | The major theorists on acting , on the other hand , such as Diderot ( 1957 ) , Stanislavsky ( 1937 ) , Brecht ( 1973 ) , Craig ( 1962 ) , Artaud ( 1970 ) and Brook ( 1968 ) tend to be interested in a particular theatrical style while writers on theatre such as Weissman ( 1965 ) and Barish ( 1966 ) choose to write about acting from a psychoanalytical point of view . |
| 11 | Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so . |
| 12 | She could go to the synagogue and to large shopping centres as before , without having to worry about coping with stairs or moving about in crowds . |
| 13 | I can not help but marvel over the miracle of cordless technology when perched 40ft high , drilling through roof rafters with a cordless tool , not having to worry about tripping over the cable or whether it 's going to rain . |
| 14 | Belinda wanted to tell him not to worry about waiting for her if he wanted to return to Labour and Delivery , but somehow the words would n't come . |
| 15 | He 's having a look to see how much work he 's got in the office today and if he has n't got enough to worry about going to work tomorrow he 's just going to go fishing tomorrow . |
| 16 | He was laughed to scorn for returning with tales of people who actually ate the nests of birds , which they boiled over fires of burning black stones — seven centuries before the same black stones were discovered and harnessed in Europe to fuel the Industrial Revolution . |
| 17 | Vanessa Atkinson , 20 , died in intensive care 10 hours after she had been treated and sent back to work after complaining of leg pains . |
| 18 | The two trainee investment managers at Charterhouse Tilney 's Liverpool office in the Royal Liver Building now have only one more of three exams to pass before qualifying for their Securities Institute Diploma . |
| 19 | They were also hampered from leaving Edinburgh to work in printing on war contracts elsewhere by the dilution agreements of 1934 . |
| 20 | My understanding from your letter of [ Date ] is that I am jointly instructed by the vendor , Mr D Smith , and the purchasers ( as set out in the Agreement between the parties dated [ Date ] ) and that I am requested to certify in writing to the parties , the value , in my opinion , of Mr D Smith 's shares at [ Date ] . |
| 21 | The opening chapter gives an in-depth and simple to understand account of all you need to know before taking to the water . |
| 22 | His principal sexual enjoyment seemed to come from sleeping with young boys and his one foray into a heterosexual relationship ended dismally with his middle-aged paramour complaining , ‘ I ca n't seem to make him understand that biting 's no good . ’ |
| 23 | Dear Steve Racist Liar Prat , your theft of my copyrights and your brief ‘ celebration ’ of your ‘ scoop ’ , which you paraded to your fellow racist crooks at my expense , has been noted and you shall be , believe me , very sorry that you sought to persist in gloating in your backward , immoral capacity to confect racist lies on the assumption that I shall not be able to retaliate in kind . |
| 24 | He was playing in a match at Windsor Great Park when , after stretching for a ball , he was seen to wince before going to the side of the field to lie down . |
| 25 | We do not need to be told that the factory girls were probably doing their best to make sure that it was impossible for her to pass without brushing against them , and that this would be construed as an insult . |
| 26 | Not content with that dereliction , you have allowed five months to pass without responding to three more recent submissions . |
| 27 | We must be able to spell without relying on access to stored lexical information because we can spell non-words , and could not have learned their spellings beforehand . |
| 28 | But to stand outside listening to Percy Makepeace 's classes , as he had done today , was to die a little . |
| 29 | Other positive women may be able to give you help , support or advice about how to adjust to living with HIV . |
| 30 | I would like to know if an easily accessible written package , with information on topics such as diagnosis , psychiatric drugs and their side effects , how to adjust to living with mental health problems in the family and so is available , or if there are any leaflets on the subject . |