Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're on about putting a road round back of there . |
| 2 | It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success . |
| 3 | If you fight on after sustaining a head injury and then receive a further blow to the head , the damage caused by the initial impact will be multiplied several times over ! |
| 4 | Lizards and geckos are equipped with sharp claws and gripping toe pads to help them cling on after making a crash landing on a tree . |
| 5 | Impressionistically , however , the courts seem more reluctant now to use customs and usages to imply contract terms , although this is possibly because they do not draw the distinction clearly enough between mod-ifying a contract and understanding its terms . |
| 6 | Having stressed the problems , it is perhaps worth taking a look at the advantages . |
| 7 | It is perhaps worth taking a minute or two to invite the Secretary of State to answer those arguments in his reply and to explain how they have been overcome in the new council tax system . |
| 8 | ‘ Senior officials in the Executive have spoken a great deal and written much about delivering a quality service . |
| 9 | Just such a device was available in the shape of AM Varityper 's VT600 , a PostScript 600dpi plain paper page printer , although it was only through reading a year 's worth of back copies of the Desktop Publisher newsletter that Tony Gamble ever found out about it . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think I care very much for having a foreigner telling the White House , the Pentagon and the FBI how to run their business . ’ |
| 11 | Would anyone like to get together about starting a paper , it said , if so , meet with Wilcock . |
| 12 | he said he said what he 's gon na do is erm is he 's got his name down for buying a trailer for it as well |
| 13 | Alejandro was all for putting a bullet through this she-devil 's head and dispatching her to the nearest abattoir . |
| 14 | Yeah , you should of said yes , I said , I 'm all for doing a survey wi , I 'm , your being recorded . |
| 15 | ‘ Scroungers ’ did exist , irresistibly when many were poor and charity was to be had sometimes merely for attending a church service ; and then as now there was a flourishing mythology of great sums inveigled from charity by shrewd layabouts . |
| 16 | Whitechurch wrote : ‘ The immense timber yard is enough to make one imagine that material had been laid in for building a fleet of a hundred arks after the pattern of Noah 's . |
| 17 | ‘ To turn you in for abducting a minor . ’ |
| 18 | If it 's a ten p bit of influence , it 's only worth spending a couple of pence on it . |
| 19 | ‘ Look , mon cher , ’ I told him when he stormed below after having a row with Igor . |
| 20 | A psychiatrist was called in and Max was given the treatment he needed , but only after serving a month in Brixton . |
| 21 | JONJO O'Neill 's stable star Danny Connors had to be put down after breaking a leg at Kelso yesterday . |
| 22 | Her pony Strawberry was put down after breaking a leg , and its replacement Jamie proved unsuitable for Alison , who has rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 23 | They will wash four to six place settings , can stand on the draining board or worksurface , or can be built in below using a kit supplied by the manufacturer . |
| 24 | To him it was essentially a community-based populist movement which , while it was capable of employing a revolutionary rhetoric , was not so of organising a revolution . |
| 25 | If a firm is to be successful , it will have to generate sufficient income to cover the cost not only of financing a capital asset but of replacing it when it is worn out . |
| 26 | Goddard arrived in place of Yallop for the final 11 minutes but Ipswich never looked much like pulling a goal back until injury time when Williams fired narrowly wide . |
| 27 | With many of the creative accounting techniques implemented by councils in the 1980s being increasingly subject to central control , in the longer term public-sector capital investment looks very much like becoming a minority interest . |
| 28 | While you can , of course , slow the model down before beginning a descent , there will still be problems if you fly in windy weather . |
| 29 | Nicholls put him in after 51 minutes and he brilliantly chested the ball down before sweeping a shot past McKeown . |
| 30 | Under the given conditions , changes of cholinesterase activity would have been demonstrable long before reaching a danger level , and would have provided an early warning . |