Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introduction of the new arrangements for Community Care are no longer something to be talked about in the future , but are happening now and involving all of us . |
| 2 | ‘ Shut the fuck up about Catch-22 , ya cretin ; ’ Ash said , storming forward and planting both fore-arms on the table cloth . |
| 3 | I do n't much like being out of door in the rain or the extreme cold or even the extreme heat — although when the weather is right I hugely enjoy walking aimlessly and observing all about me . |
| 4 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 5 | He and Gina went on living together and nagging each other quietly . |
| 6 | It could be offensive to some , it has been suggested , to be thought of as living in or visiting such a place . |
| 7 | He came in and trampling this brake fluid all over the carpet . |
| 8 | Paula and Louise had been nominated to sell the raffle tickets and did a round of the hall , flirting outrageously and telling all the boys the tickets were ‘ sixpence each or two shillings a strip ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ So I just see myself passing through and meeting all these people along the way , like , and I have a good time . |
| 10 | And here , in this incident , as he himself is dying and in his physical pain and torment , is carrying out this very work of seeking out and saving those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him he is saving the lost . |
| 11 | She launched into a brief account of her visit to Puddephat 's rooms , leaving vague what she had done there and making much of the fright she had got when the fire bell went off . |
| 12 | I 'm not looking ahead or making any wild plans for the future . ’ |
| 13 | It would appear therefore that recruiting more volunteers is not always the answer to staff shortages . |
| 14 | ‘ The way we achieved this was simple — tremendous teamwork by everyone involved , pulling together and making that extra effort which achieves better results ’ , said Plant Manager Phil Blackburn . |
| 15 | remember going in and seeing this film and , it just it did n't it was so to my mind , and you know thinking back now , my memory of it was of a sort of very dark and dreary |
| 16 | er I mean I have a bit of a problem with him sort of going in and identifying all these fourteen ten tenets if you like of er what er the peasants have actually done because I do n't think |
| 17 | He just goes on past me , puffing away and shoving this trolley thing in front of him . |
| 18 | that it came to make the amazing sounds , okay , and then after that , er , this is another thing it leads to is there 's going to be a break down in your sound machine , okay , there 's gon na be a break down in your , in your entire robotic machine , movement in our machine , and that break down could be due to some of the workers going off and getting some of them erm you know , one , er part of the machine breaking down on the whole , sound changes , the movement changes and we 're going to watch how this robotic machine changes as it breaks down , it could be sound shut down it could be it could be anything you choose , but I want it anyway , leave it to you so all you do is choose a profession , think of something that is , comes to life to you , in movement and in sound , okay , so let's get into groups of , see how many they are , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , eighteen , nineteen , twenty , okay let's get into groups of four then , okay is that right , one , two , three , four , one , oh five , four , five , just get your group into a work in , I thank you if you do n't get |
| 19 | In either case ( the Bank selling more or buying fewer bills ) , there will be a knock-on effect on interest rates throughout the economy , just as there used to be with MLR . |
| 20 | In other words going out and buying some |
| 21 | Er the very fact that we 're at our desks er for more than seventy percent of our time filling these forms in er prevents us from moving on to the next prisoner and going out and arresting more people for crime . |
| 22 | So what I 'd like to do is erm , balance out the influence in him , prior to going out and making these negotiations erm , so that he comes back with a a suitable timescale for us to deal with it , and has n't promised them the earth in the way of commission or er , print changes or whatever . |
| 23 | The child 's cognisant acts have the character of perceptions : if an act is done it can not be undone ( ‘ reversed ’ in the jargon ) and so there is no going back and taking another perspective on the question or practical problem . |
| 24 | So he 's rushing around and flapping this morning before he goes off just before nine . |
| 25 | If in doubt about what to do next , keep yourself busy by going around and changing all the name plates : in a move scarcely calculated to do much to restore battered confidence in the company , IBM Corp 's shrunken Cadam Inc , the Burbank , California company that now confines itself to the microcomputer versions of the computer-aided design software , has changed its name to Altium , effective immediately : it says the Altium name is part of its plan to secure the unit 's position in the desktop market and ‘ a part of the larger renewal ’ of IBM . |
| 26 | Why phoning up and saying that |
| 27 | I think it 's about time that you stopped blaming , and I think it 's about time that you started accepting re le responsibility that you are in it and getting on and making this council . |
| 28 | We can not create reasons just by intending to do so and expressing that intention in action . |
| 29 | Then , after about three months , I had got it all out of my system I suppose , and I actually turned down an invitation to a party in favour of staying in and washing some clothes ! |
| 30 | The tiny scullion squealed and the bucket clattered to the floor , staying upright but letting some of its glutinous contents slop over the side . |