Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | support for the production of teaching materials is not coordinated and rarely involves monitoring the successes and failures arising through the trial of materials in classrooms |
| 2 | ‘ I wo n't try that yet , ’ said Fenella , who was rather enjoying riding the horse , but was not sure how she might get on with whatever was a gallop . |
| 3 | They had long since stopped expecting the world to deal kindly with them : they had used up their good fortune by remaining alive when the Plague came . |
| 4 | Inevitably , many organisations have been created which effectively avoided confronting the government . |
| 5 | Of the eleven who won the Cup for Manchester United in 1948 , most of whom were internationals and all in the first rank of senior professionals , five went into football coaching and management , three ran newsagents ' shops ( customers presumably enjoyed discussing the sports headlines with men who had once made them ) , two worked in factories , and one became a night-telephonist . |
| 6 | I do rather enjoy having the flat to myself , despite a constant battle with my clutter ! |
| 7 | Thus " information handling " does not merely cover using the microcomputer to find references to aspects of pollution such as ACID RAIN but to the whole process of learning done in the classroom and the school library . |
| 8 | Unless it grows fast enough to sustain recropping the birds must move elsewhere . |
| 9 | The second reason for the Labour movement 's hostility was that the trade unions had still to be convinced that their strength had increased sufficiently to risk reconsidering the position as declared at their annual conference in 1930 . |
| 10 | Anti-clerical Catalans have long favoured leaving the Sagrada Familia as it is and landscaping the site . |
| 11 | Victor , fatter and balder and more like a bilious little hippo than ever , was obviously enjoying playing the O'Briens off against the Mendozas . |
| 12 | The consultation period came to an end on 16 September and we then got down to work assessing the reaction . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry to see that although we 've got a large increase in budget , which is of course always very welcome , that we have n't perhaps addressed improving the quality er as much as we might have done , although we 've got a lot more home help hours that may be classed as an improvement , but er there are many other areas where we could perhaps encourage improvement in community care er with a bit of thought . |
| 14 | Be understanding if he or she suddenly starts wetting the bed or crying for attention following a bad dream in the night . |
| 15 | The project was controversial and the power station was only permitted providing the smoke was clean and the building did not challenge the visual dominance of St Paul 's . |
| 16 | So stop slapping the boy around . ’ |
| 17 | Neither does the inquirer need to come with a programme almost ready made wanting the centre only to book the air tickets . |
| 18 | To return to the earlier days of the state , however , one must remark upon several other provisions of the Kanunname of Mehmed II if only to avoid giving the impression that , at least in these early days , the establishment of a hierarchy for the ulema meant that a scholar , once enmeshed in its toils , had no option but the long grind to the top of that particular profession . |
| 19 | The additional times caused by linkage handling can be avoided if the link held on the prime data track contains the record key , and if the software can detect whether the required record is in overflow quickly enough to avoid missing the start of the next record . |
| 20 | So enjoy using the combinations of colours , the simplicity of the shapes and create your own piece of the Mediterranean . |
| 21 | Use only a soft-face mallet to tap joints together to avoid bruising the wood |
| 22 | They addressed most of their conversation to Zimmerman and his wife , occasionally deigned , as it were under protest , to speak to the Frenchmen , but pointedly avoided addressing the fräulein at all . |
| 23 | Meanwhile I much enjoyed chairing the South African debate , since tempers flared throughout , including mine , which is always interesting . |
| 24 | The evolutionary analogy is close enough to justify borrowing the term , and I make no apology to my pompous colleagues who would purge our language of such illuminating images . |
| 25 | Glenshee and Glencoe all had cover but not enough to justify running the lifts . |
| 26 | You may find that you need to apply the solution several times and should obviously avoid doing the gob just before a rain storm is forecast . |
| 27 | More than three years had already passed , and further delays could only risk exposing the government to exactly the charges now being levelled against it . |
| 28 | But he added : ‘ If , however , it means that managers are so distracted discussing the process of privatisation that they have no time left to manage , then that would be a most unhappy state of affairs . ’ |
| 29 | It scared and disgusted her the way every male she met suddenly started ogling the blancmange under her blouse . |
| 30 | It 's indicative of his desperation that he 's prepared to sell Martin Keown , an England-class centre half , to raise some cash … but even that would be nowhere near enough to start re-creating the mid-1980s dream team . |