Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are a side trying to build up confidence at the moment . |
| 2 | ‘ True it is that we ai n't in the habit of entertaining the likes of you , sir , most of the gentry as stops here in Newark preferring to bait down Saracen 's Head with that there Mr Thompson , but — ’ |
| 3 | In black this detailing might be inoffensive , but in colour-coordinated white the Carlsson looks as if it would enjoy nothing more than hanging around outside Stringfellows waiting to pick up Page Three girls . |
| 4 | Comparative land values indicated the superiority of free labour ; Steele 's Barbados experiment was taken as a success economically as well as morally ; evidence comparing hired out slave labour in Virginia with the maintenance of free labour in Pennsylvania indicated the relative cheapness of free labour . |
| 5 | " There are outside forces in Russia and China trying to stir up trouble for us here . " |
| 6 | I was earnest , like any aspiring young person trying to draw out approval . |
| 7 | The report pinpoints a substantial increase in the number of managers planning to run down cash balances , consistent with the move into equities . |
| 8 | Even a woman wanting to take on help with child-care may have to consider whether or not she will make the decision herself or whether her husband or even the child itself will become involved . |
| 9 | In general terms , any group of people wishing to carry on business under English law has to make a choice between three distinct legal forms of organisation , the company , the partnership and a hybrid known as the limited partnership . |
| 10 | Secretary Meretta Griffiths said : ‘ With so much work having gone into preparing the 50th anniversary show and with many exhibitors having taken up position we decided that the show should go on . ’ |
| 11 | The collapsing pound and frightening , if temporary , surge in lending rates to 15% , sent people flocking to pay off credit-card bills . |
| 12 | In 1978 , he persuaded the Senate to accept a treaty agreeing to hand over control of the Panama Canal to the state of Panama by the year 2000 . |
| 13 | The energy and enthusiasm black youth have for certain sports and the disproportionately high number wanting to take up sport as a career provides at least the initial indication that they see in successful black sportsmen models for themselves . |
| 14 | Sentiment was also depressed by Chancellor Kenneth Clarke refusing to rule out tax rises in the November Budget . |
| 15 | the Distributor ceasing to carry on business for any reason whatsoever |
| 16 | They were sitting in the Kardomah Café waiting to pick up paint and turpentine ordered by the stage designer from Haggerty 's warehouse in Seel Street . |
| 17 | Indeed , while with one hand trying to hold down expenditure by local authorities , the Government found itself by the late 1980s involved with the other hand in massive ear-marked spending on inner urban areas . |
| 18 | In the strict or dictionary sense The Lord of the Rings evades that concept totally , for according to the OED ‘ defeatism ’ is a straight borrowing from French défaitisme , recorded in English for the first time in 1918 and meaning ‘ Conduct tending to bring about acceptance of defeat , esp . |
| 19 | There were , for example , two old wooden boxes containing torn up paper and many stamps from Penny Blacks to Edwardian ; also a number of other relics from his brother 's model-making activities . ’ |
| 20 | Statutory undertakers wishing to carry out development which is neither ‘ permitted development ’ nor authorised by a government department have to apply for planning permission to the local planning authority in the normal way , but in the case of ‘ operational land ’ appeals are considered jointly by the secretary of state and the ‘ appropriate minister ’ . |
| 21 | Molly had gone round the party trying to pick up information , listening for hints dropped during casual conversations and there , talking to her own children and eating nougat , was the girl who might have told her almost everything . |