Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] [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 | Lord Upjohn said that unlawful behaviour might be constituted by : ( a ) an outright refusal to consider the relevant matter ; ( b ) a misdirection on a point of law ; ( c ) taking into account some wholly irrelevant or extraneous consideration ; ( d ) wholly omitting to take into account a relevant consideration . |
| 3 | Perhaps pretending to fall in love was merely a smart career move allowing you to diversify into pasturing . |
| 4 | Buying this week what you bought last week is only going to end in failure . |
| 5 | President Gorbachev then left , as the boos and hisses reached the Podium , but in fact it is n't absolutely clear that he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration , or if he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration or if he really was only going to be there for about 20 minutes . |
| 6 | President Gorbachev then left , as the boos and hisses reached the Podium , but in fact it is n't absolutely clear that he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration , or if he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration or if he really was only going to be there for about 20 minutes . |
| 7 | He says it 'd be devastating — we built the bungalow just 6 years ago and I 've built the farm up over the years and now it 's all going to go under water . |
| 8 | students tomorrow , and we are all going to meet for lunch . |
| 9 | Now it 's obviously going to vary from establishment to establishment , but do you feel that we perhaps still have some way to go ? |
| 10 | ( viii ) Pupils should begin to learn explicitly the different stages in the writing process , ie drafting ( getting ideas on to paper or computer screen , regardless of form , organisation or expression ) ; redrafting ( shaping and structuring the raw material — either on paper or screen — to take account of purpose , audience and form ) ; rereading and revising ( making alterations that will help the reader , eg getting rid of ambiguity , vagueness , incoherence , or irrelevance ) ; proof-reading ( checking for errors , eg omitted or repeated words , mistakes in spelling or punctuation ) . |
| 11 | Up to a point , because now we 've got the the go ahead for the new chiller , which is ordered , erm that 's only getting rid of part of the problem . |
| 12 | problem drinkers who live on to old age , perhaps having started in midlife ; |
| 13 | So having settled on Road , moved to Lane which was the nearest school , still in the juniors but by then our age would be nearly eleven , time to move onto a bigger school . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Our women are constantly having to fight in shop queues , and have thus become aggressive and unfeminine . |
| 16 | He shivered , not daring to move in case they noticed and dragged him out . |
| 17 | She sat very still , letting his words flow over her , not daring to comment in case she said something stupid and broke his mood . |
| 18 | Feeling desolate , she climbed back into the car , not daring to look at Roman in the silver moonlight . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Describes the clients in a pawnbroker 's shop in a squalid neighbourhood : a harridan , a drunken brute who abuses his pathetic wife , a genteel mother and daughter just becoming inured to poverty , a prostitute , and a drunken old woman ( ‘ Who shall say how soon these women may change places ? ’ ) . |
| 21 | Intriguingly enough , the only way I can make Selina actually want to go to bed with me is by not wanting to go to bed with her . |
| 22 | Then , not wanting to return to bed , she made herself comfortable in the wicker armchair , her eyes gazing on her husband 's sleeping face . |
| 23 | By the time I am curled up in my bag I am totally content , warm and well fed , exhausted but not wanting to sleep for fear of missing these moments of happiness . |
| 24 | I ca n't , ’ replied Endill , not wanting to get into trouble . |
| 25 | She wore her parents out by nightly refusing to go to bed until they did ; whereupon she would sleep normally . |
| 26 | She blamed herself for trusting him to wait , for not refusing to go to Sniffy without the van keys in her possession . |
| 27 | So you were just lying listening to music in between the chair and the couch ? |
| 28 | go where ? , huh I , I had an awful night again , I did n't get to sleep till about one or two , I 'm not going to go to bed early again |
| 29 | My predecessor as librarian did , I admit , go in for some rather unpleasant stuff towards which I have no inclination , but being a libertarian I 'm certainly not going to act as censor . |
| 30 | The Workers ' Birth Control Group was anxious to show that women were not going to renege on motherhood if they were permitted easier access to birth control information : ‘ the committee of this organisation consists of married women who have children , and they are not in any way out to say it is a good thing not to have children ’ . |