Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should n't be bashed for putting it into a sale ; we help to bring it to a resolution by bringing out it into the open ’ . |
| 2 | Donard is the highest mountain in all of Ulster , and you could be forgiven for believing it to be the highest in the world when viewed from Newcastle . |
| 3 | Those who saw the 30 yard putt she holed stone dead at the eighth , or her playing of the 18th , where she hit a glorious seven iron to ten feet before holing for her birdie , could be forgiven for wondering what on earth she was talking about . |
| 4 | It worries the lawyers , and the insurance company were always fussing about keeping it in a private house . |
| 5 | From here he entered N A L G O and held high office within the Union and many members have to thank for representing them at pay s pay negotiations etcetera . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've now got to see if people like it enough for us to want to even think about building something like it . ’ |
| 7 | Or we can think about doing something about |
| 8 | The Badlands spirit is swelling — catch this wave now , but do n't think about doing it in a Fat Willys T-shirt . |
| 9 | But she did not think about giving anything to Finn ; he lived , now , in a country where presents and affection and loving and giving meant nothing . |
| 10 | Silverfish are an awesome experience , and purely on that basis EMF should be applauded for introducing them to a wider audience . |
| 11 | She could almost feel the internal battle raging within her , and for a long moment could do nothing but gaze at the stage , torn between seeing it as a hostile no-man's-land and home . |
| 12 | After all , fitzAlan had n't seemed to worry about exposing her to the elements . |
| 13 | But I 'm sure it was much more important to pave over history and build this — this autostrada than to worry about preserving something like the Appian Way ! ’ |
| 14 | The men had been dead for at least a week and speculation is mounting that they had suffocated after locking themselves in the container . |
| 15 | ‘ Nahum Plunkett coming here to see Anna is probably the only chance anyone has of pulling her through this crisis , you know that really , do n't you , Seb ? ’ |
| 16 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 17 | Just as compelling production of incriminating Reports in the hand of the insured may lead to a climate for settlement on the part of the defender , so a Specification properly directed to the pursuer or those to whom he may have entrusted information ( other than his solicitors ) may assist in compelling him to be more realistic . |
| 18 | The difficulty lies in convincing yourself of that ! |
| 19 | All non-productive wood must be cut out , and the skill lies in deciding which of the many buds are wood buds and which are fruit buds , and then in deciding which of the wood buds are likely to produce the most fruit buds . |
| 20 | To some extent he was at first exonerated from confronting them with this reality by grants of papal crusading tenths , sexennial ones levied on the clergy only , authorized in 1274 and 1291 , and yielding about £20,000 annually . |
| 21 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 22 | " When we shift from saying something to reporting what someone else said , we are changing our footing . |
| 23 | She had succeeded in damning him with the faintest of eulogies . |
| 24 | Of course there are individual doctors who are well aware of the mess their profession has got itself into ; but the very fact that they are in a profession , and one which has succeeded in armouring itself against state intervention , makes it hard for them to get their ideas accepted . |
| 25 | Christine made a grab for his gun as it spun away , but only succeeded in pushing it into a console , where its trigger caught on the comer . |
| 26 | He had succeeded in pleasing her in spite of everything that had happened . |
| 27 | The second movement was just ending , and had succeeded in stabilising her to a certain extent . |
| 28 | ‘ As daylight , ’ she snapped , before giving a heavy sigh as she realised that , yet again , the horrid man had succeeded in putting her in the wrong . |
| 29 | Dávila , however , was a bully , a cruel and insecure man whose constant attacks on the Indians succeeded in turning them from ‘ sheep ’ , as Balboa called them , into ‘ fierce lyons ’ . |
| 30 | Now , Armani is Italy 's new Great Dictator but his genius is that , having handed down his basic dictate — that both women and men look their best in unstructured tailoring applied to traditional menswear fabrics — he has succeeded in turning himself into the Great Listener . |