Example sentences of "[vb -s] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such activity is difficult ( even repugnant ) , for it involves struggling with mental symbols which enable the thinker to hold some entity — object , property , proposition , world — in mind . |
| 2 | But there are guidelines for women using tampons : Do n't leave a tampon in for too long ( time differs depending on menstrual flow ) . |
| 3 | The act of investment usually involves abstaining from current consumption in order to acquire assets , which raise the productive potential of the economy , and therefore the possibilities for future consumption . |
| 4 | It is a pity that he attributes to Emrys Hughes remarks relating to these matters made by Sir Emrys Jones . |
| 5 | Tom 's work mostly involves checking for sharp teeth and rasping them smooth . |
| 6 | In places , it defies understanding to this day . |
| 7 | From this point on everyone in the movie starts colliding like large tankers with their navigation shot to hell . |
| 8 | It covers trading in all listed and unlisted securities , gilts , and other fixed interest securities on the London Stock Exchange . |
| 9 | Rather than acknowledge this , if he is infertile , he 'll often feel no longer a man , and it is this feeling that needs addressing by both of you . |
| 10 | But once one starts looking at such headings , questions arise . |
| 11 | Like most young people Sarah Jacobs loves looking at fashionable clothes . |
| 12 | I said , ‘ 'Course I can , ’ an' then 'e starts lookin' at these papers as though I was n't there . |
| 13 | Printing in black tends to be the least expensive as it does not mean that the machinery needs cleaning of black ink . |
| 14 | And on Saturday nights most people stay till about 4.30 ; the crowd starts dwindling after that . ’ |
| 15 | Its moment about the centre of the rectangle increases and it needs balancing by one , but preferably two , additional drawings . |
| 16 | And they go on holiday and they 're not supposed to , you know , they neither of them of told their boyfriend they go in this club and one of them , the married one , starts dancing with this man and like he , he thinks cos she 's dancing with him she likes him but she 's just having fun . |
| 17 | In daylight he could have used a shop window as a mirror to watch the pharmacist 's across the road but lit windows were no use and who stands staring into dark ones ? |
| 18 | ‘ He loves coming from deep and running through defences . |
| 19 | Your potential energy starts changing into kinetic and you roll back . |
| 20 | I knew I 'd have to sit on my hands before I came here , but what if some sex offender starts talking about this or that ? |
| 21 | If she starts talking about sexual matters they may jump in hastily , saying , ‘ Do n't talk about that ’ without explaining why they are disturbed by what she has said . |
| 22 | Unless children grow up in a family , they are bound to find it hard to share and , until she starts playing with other children 's toys , she may well think that all toys belong to her . |
| 23 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
| 24 | In the example outputs , GBLSECTIONS needs increasing to 45 , and GBLPAGES to 4050 . |
| 25 | McDunn stands talking to some heavily brassed uniformed cops on the steps of the front door . |
| 26 | But erm er when the W Winter comes on , the wind starts whistling round this place , it er cuts into your ears a bit . |
| 27 | She 's daft as a brush when she starts thinking like that . |
| 28 | ACCOUNTANCY TV Accountancy TV starts broadcasting on 17 September . |
| 29 | It is now generally accepted that the universe evolves according to well-defined laws . |
| 30 | Thus , the incidence of particular variants differs according to these roles and functions . |