Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can make editing a time consuming and confusing exercise when working with a large piece of music . |
| 2 | On 15 June , the House of Commons in Stormont met to debate a motion urging action to preserve law and order . |
| 3 | Such a clause is not attractive to the seller , because he loses control of the conduct of the claim of infringement , and it is often a difficult clause to persuade the buyer to accept unless there is a problem which is so well-known in a particular industry that many sellers tend to include a reservation relating to it . |
| 4 | So intent was she on making a good impression , she failed to see a crane coming towards her . |
| 5 | Environmental organisations from the south of Holland have joined to launch a campaign informing the major bulb-importing countries about the damage to the environment caused by the bulb-growing industry . |
| 6 | On April 10 Japan and Russia agreed to launch a scheme allowing citizens connected with the four disputed islands to make exchange visits without obtaining visas . |
| 7 | Make arrangements satisfactory to patients and staff locally for the closure over the next ten years or so of those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a service reaching out into the community and are already near the end of their useful life . |
| 8 | Instead of reading it down , I mean say a Frenchman reading it down , say through erm |
| 9 | Michael James Ward , 24 , of Embledown , Norton-le-Clay , Helperby , York , admitted driving a car exceeding 60mph , fined £100 plus £20 costs , licence endorsed , three points . |
| 10 | 6.2 Each centre has received a proforma showing the courses for which it presented candidates in session 1988–89 . |
| 11 | But he has received a letter withdrawing the invite to take part in the discussion , which will feature Tory Michael Fallon , Labour 's Alan Milburn and Liberal Democrat Peter Bergg . |
| 12 | THE Amateur Boxing Association has received a boost following the Sports Council 's decision to restore a grant worth more than £100,000 . |
| 13 | SCOTVEC has developed a statement defining each of the core skills at four ‘ stages ’ of increasing difficulty from 1 to 4 . |
| 14 | The King 's Fund Centre Carers Unit has developed a project looking specifically at the needs of Afro-Caribbean carers . |
| 15 | As he later admitted in an interview with CA Magazine , ‘ I said to someone at the time , I never again want to conduct a debate lasting three years without once being able to raise my voice ’ . |
| 16 | To some extent this applies also to whales and dolphins : some , such as white-sided and white-beaked dolphins , appear to enjoy a boat going at speed and will actively approach and ‘ bow-ride ’ for a time . |
| 17 | Someone described seeing a couple having tea in a restaurant with an elderly parent . |
| 18 | Eubank has formulated a master-plan leading up to the fight of his dreams — a £1 million title unification fight next September with arch-enemy Benn . |
| 19 | Riven half expected to see a crocodile hanging from the ceiling , but instead there were bulbs of garlic and bunches of other herbs which he could not identify . |
| 20 | Morgan Grampian has given a court undertaking not to publish the information . |
| 21 | Rescue teams were alerted when two golfers reported seeing a body falling through the sky . |
| 22 | The Coastguard launched the Crimdon Dene inshore lifeboat and the helicopter at RAF Boulmer was scrambled yesterday after children reported seeing a swimmer floating out to sea near Hartlepool . |
| 23 | To make commercial sense of this arrangement , the contract would also need to contain a provision placing a duty on the seller to account to the buyer for any amount by which the proceeds of sub-sales of unmixed goods exceed the amount of the buyer 's indebtedness to the seller . |
| 24 | The French consumers ' demands for quality of manufacture and their desire for a fun approach to dressing remain the hallmarks of a label which has enjoyed a cult following in the UK during the past few years . |
| 25 | A YOUNG policeman helped to crack a lorry hijacking , the Crown claimed yesterday , because he had been in school with the man accused of abducting the driver and stealing spirits , food and tobacco . |
| 26 | " For young Gedge to say , " he said quietly , " that he has seen a person watching boys playing rounders hardly makes that person a homosexual . |
| 27 | Mr Davies has worked hard to affiliate 15 TGWU branches , and has written a pamphlet attacking Mr Field 's views on social policy . |
| 28 | A health authority chairman has said a hospital facing substantial cutbacks is unlikely to lose its emergency departments . |
| 29 | But a report on nine of the 80 homes has uncovered a ratio varying from one in 20 to one in 38 . |
| 30 | UNICEF UK has organized a petition urging the British Government to be one of the first to ratify the Convention after it has been adopted . |