Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since these are relatively common finds of a mundane form , the highly parochial local museum can often contribute its own sequence which is a version of the overall national pattern , thereby helping to embody in material form , and as an aid in teaching , that sense of history which underlies the collective identity presupposed by the state . |
| 2 | Perhaps pretending to fall in love was merely a smart career move allowing you to diversify into pasturing . |
| 3 | Buying this week what you bought last week is only going to end in failure . |
| 4 | In poor black areas it is common for half the class to fail to graduate ( which , in America , means merely failing to stay in school until you are 18 — there is no national exam for school-leavers ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Our women are constantly having to fight in shop queues , and have thus become aggressive and unfeminine . |
| 6 | He shivered , not daring to move in case they noticed and dragged him out . |
| 7 | She sat very still , letting his words flow over her , not daring to comment in case she said something stupid and broke his mood . |
| 8 | The two slipped quietly over the tailboard and marched off smartly along the Commercial Road , not daring to run in case they attracted the policeman 's attention . |
| 9 | ‘ The big companies were not going to invest in equipment for maintaining these engines , ’ argues Mendoros . |
| 10 | I 'm not going to live in fear of him . ’ |
| 11 | She was not going to fall in love with him , but even as she said this vehemently to herself , Sara was afraid that she had already gone over the precipice she had been conscious of this morning . |
| 12 | I do n't love them , I 'm attracted to them but I 'm not going to fall in love with them like that man . |
| 13 | Even though Plato wrote these words over two thousand years ago , we in the modern western world are only just beginning to resonate in harmony with his tune of truth . |
| 14 | Not wishing to live in south Durham and commute daily , this had presented something of a problem for him . |
| 15 | She saw his gaze fall to her mouth and she looked at him and waited , wanting him to kiss her , hardly daring to move in case the moment , the spell should be broken . |
| 16 | ‘ Their final clash was always going to end in tragedy . |
| 17 | Hamadan became equally confident they could do so when the CIA offered them both ‘ asset ’ status , which meant virtual immunity from prosecution or the risk of ever having to surface in court and testify as witnesses . |
| 18 | I 'm also hoping to put in time capsules , so people in 150 years time will know what what was happening in Southmoor and the locality . |
| 19 | Perseverance in the face of bitter discouragement , such as feminine resistance to his approaches , were factors he was now trying to incorporate in work habits that would be essentially him , original to him . |
| 20 | She sternly reminded herself that she was n't going to fall in love with the wrong man again just because she was sexually attracted to him , and she was never going to get married again . |
| 21 | And Malone is even managing to get in trouble with himself at the moment . |
| 22 | In a game of increasing thunder , he 's a welcome fork of lightning , sometimes appearing to thrive in spite of team-mates rather than because of them . |
| 23 | This … this man , this total stranger was actually daring to sit in judgement ! |
| 24 | never needing to cry in front of them . |