Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Failing to do all the IMF wanted was one thing : escaping the exigencies of dependence on foreign credit , if only to continue financing of trade , was quite another . |
| 2 | Off went the man into the woods only to return screaming for help with a huge grizzly gaining on him with every stride . |
| 3 | For the moment the Angevin dominions remained quiet and the new King of France was too busy elsewhere to go looking for trouble . |
| 4 | They have an equal right not to dread going to bed alone , or waking up alone ; there need be no loneliness on quiet Sundays . |
| 5 | That suggests that a credit crunch is taking place , especially since banks are still under orders from the central bank not to increase lending to property companies beyond the overall rate of loan growth , which has itself been restricted since October . |
| 6 | It is n't too soon to start thinking of summer and what you 'll look like in a swimsuit . |
| 7 | I have n't got money left over to start whacking in money into a pension scheme . |
| 8 | That means I 've all the kitchen tasks and the washing to do , not to mention acting as lady 's maid to both — and everything else besides ! ’ |
| 9 | There is a tendency not to offer housing to dementia sufferers ( especially where known behaviour problems exist ) , but on the other hand to try to help tenants who develop dementia as long as is reasonable . |
| 10 | Amanda said I 've got to sto , she 's not to stop going to night school . |
| 11 | That was after Joe , HISY 's lawyer had claimed at a previous hearing that yet another G Tec rival , Scientific Games , had been told not to bother bidding by lottery officials . |
| 12 | The Bush Administration has announced plans which could result in large areas of protected lands being opened up to strip mining for coal . |
| 13 | Mergers between giants such as GE and RCA ( 1985 ) and between Sperry and Burroughs ( 1986 ) inevitably forced smaller competitors also to consider growing by merger ; 1987 duly saw the start of a fresh wave of European electronics mergers . |
| 14 | Cambridgeshire is planning substantially to increase spending on education , but has chosen , for some reason best known to itself , to make more money available by imposing sharp reductions in its secondary school budgets . |
| 15 | MORE THAN two years after the word Cleveland became synonymous with child sexual abuse , Dr Marietta Higgs remains clear about what she wants to do - go back there , and in time go back to work dealing with child abuse there . |
| 16 | A third book is about to appear dealing with pain specifically in the neonate including premature babies . |
| 17 | First , how to persuade other member states not to insist on proposals which take us down the federal route and , second , how to avoid agreeing to wording which would be inconsistent with the wishes of the British parliament and electorate , while at the same time trying to reach an agreement . |
| 18 | The advice on how to put planning for development into practice can be supported by the experiences shared by the Council and a number of bodies over the last three years . |
| 19 | Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in . |
| 20 | The teacher may need to take action to counter resistance to collaboration , to raise awareness of the value of discussion and actively to promote mixing across race , gender , class and ability divisions . |