Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignoring for the moment the force of the word ‘ really ’ in this argument , we can still feel confident that even if we give up talking of knowledge , granting that a necessary condition for knowing is unfulfilled , we can happily continue to talk about justified belief , distinguishing some beliefs as justified or as more justified than others and others as less justified or even completely unjustified . |
| 2 | Beret-clad students ride around reeking of garlic , Breton-smocked social workers drive around in Citroens listening to Edith Piaf , wine-soaked alkies block the pavement like revolting farmers and jobless actors loll around in cravats striking Alain Delon poses . |
| 3 | We do n't want Americans to think we are n't hospitable , and besides , she 's bound to be lying there thinking of sex , poor little thing , and it 'll be all wet and hairy , and so deliciously — ’ |
| 4 | Feelings , the Collector now suspected , were just as important as ideas , though young Fleury no longer appeared to think so for he had given up talking of civilization as a " beneficial disease " ; he had discovered the manly pleasures to be found in inventing things , in making things work , in getting results , in cause and effect . |
| 5 | British No 2 Chris Wilkinson , conqueror of Ivanisevic at Queen 's last week , also has a chance to make progress after drawing another Argentine , Daniel Orsanic , the late replacement for French Open champion Sergi Bruguera who pulled out complaining of exhaustion . |
| 6 | He sometimes spends whole evenings in there making a lot of noise , coming out smelling of wood . |
| 7 | But he went on thinking of Angel 's religious logic , as explained by Tess . |
| 8 | He went on talking of peace , but he had become a man who had allowed Britain 's major industry to be decimated and embittered . |
| 9 | Unfortunately two weeks after her last gold injection she presented acutely complaining of lethargy , anorexia , weight loss ( 9.5 kg ) , abdominal pain , and watery diarrhoea ( up to 20 times per day ) with a small amount of blood . |
| 10 | I mean we go round on a Saturday night and we come out stinking of smoke , cos they smoke one after another |