Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 I most desperately need entertaining , as you can see . ’
2 I so much enjoyed coming to see your mother .
3 But I do n't think I ever seriously considered having Low Birk Hatt connected when they offered it to me .
4 In spite of having two electronic machines as well as a punchcard model , I still really enjoy working with patterns which require a manual transfer , when I have time .
5 Er sometimes I , I 'm , I get a lot , a lot of things on , I have at the moment , an awful lot of things on , so everything is you know getting in a p a tight path and fast , so I deliberately thoroughly enjoy taking my dog and wandering along in the park .
6 FIGURE 1 I nearly always start drawing the ‘ bones ’ of the picture with a small brush dipped in a light cerulean or cobalt blue — ultramarine is too strong a colour , and I roughly mark out windows , table , plant etc
7 If I 'm feeling low , I actually quite enjoy facing somebody quick , who 's in a position to threaten me .
8 A comparatively leisurely schedule of Yours Truly still entailed travelling to twenty-one cities in thirty-five weeks .
9 I never really regretted opting out , and I know that I could never have settled down to a steady shore job while the cutters were still available .
10 I very much enjoyed meeting Mr Evans and yourself last week and having the opportunity to discuss your business intentions as well as some of the details of your first targeted acquisition .
11 ‘ I 've visited all the notable churches and cathedrals but I very much enjoy discovering places that are n't particularly prominent in guide books : going around a corner in a village in France and discovering a gem .
12 It was a piece of work that I very much enjoyed organising and following through to completion .
13 So is the formula for the famous cheese soufflé which so wonderfully conceals melting whole poached eggs , an old dish of French cookery and one served by Boulestin at a luncheon given at his restaurant to celebrate the publication by Cassells on 26 September 1936 , of the autobiography entitled Myself , My Two Countries .
14 Talks on privatising Deutsche Bundespost Telekom have entered a critical phase , with a key decision due next month , Germany 's postal and telecommunications minister Wolfgang Bosch told Reuter at Hannover on Friday : ‘ In a few weeks we will know whether or not there will be a change to the constitution , ’ he said , noting that decision will not only affect privatisation of Telekom but also Bonn 's position at the upcoming talks with the European Commission — an agreement on privatisation would pave the way for Bonn to approve the Community plan to open domestic and international telephone calls to competition ; the current strategy to get agreement from Germany 's opposition socialists is to win over the postal union , which so far rejects turning Telekom into a joint stock company for fear of massive job losses .
15 In the right circumstances , horses can also learn affection for a person — which not only makes training a horse so much easier , but makes riding and working the horse such a pleasure .
16 The timetable , which equally importantly includes finding the solution to Venice 's problem of flooding , was reconfirmed recently by Luigi Zanda , president of the Consorzio Venezia Nuova .
17 Such demands for cash will push up interest rates by ½%; or more , unless governments tighten up on spending — which almost inevitably means cutting back even more drastically on social services …
18 But by an expensive , slow and very laborious liming , composting and cover-cropping , he has established a natural cycle which no longer requires topping up with nutrients .
19 A feature of modern management of both wet gravel pits and reservoirs is to encourage leisure activities of various sorts , and landscaping ( which too often involves removing most of the marginal vegetation for tidiness ) .
20 Most of the men there had families or commitments in England , and while they would support the Irish cause in word and sometimes in deed , no-one ever seriously considered leaving everything to go and fight for the cause .
21 Shocked is making plans to sail with her father , who long ago began building a boat , until marriage and fatherhood distracted him from finishing it .
22 However Crewe came back into the game a scored after 30 minutes or so when Strach misplaced a pass in the midfield where upon some Crewe player broke away and rolled the ball past Beaney and Hodge ( who only just missed intercepting it ) .
23 She hardly ever stopped thinking about Alain Lemarchand and each time he came into her mind this guilt came too .
24 Another person 's house and you really just start wrecking the place systematically .
25 When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone .
26 And she was n't going to marry , she never really considered marrying Rivers did she ?
27 Two teams await me , one just about to start climbing .
28 We no longer wear mourning clothes for a fixed period of time , we do n't refuse to go to parties for the first six months after the death of someone close to us , we do n't take time immediately after the death for intensive grieving .
29 PLAYER : We never really got going — it was getting quite interesting when they stopped it .
30 Also , I 'd like to tell everyone out there to stop making fun of the Spectrum .
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