Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What excuse could I make for going out into the garden ? " |
| 2 | Foster was punished for kicking out at the stumps during a frustrating spell at Old Trafford on Thursday . |
| 3 | But before he thinks about drifting off to the sun , Biggins wants another taste of cup glory . |
| 4 | At their first meeting , Berenson is described as ‘ a gentleman with a reddish beard ’ ; apologising for turning up at the artist 's studio unannounced , he offered the excuse that he was ‘ the person who bought all your pictures from Torrini ’ ( an antique dealer with whom Joni placed his first works for sale ) . |
| 5 | Alison Taylor , the former Gwynedd social worker who says she was sacked for speaking out about the abuses in care , told Community Care last week that she was concerned both at the slow progress of the investigations and the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute certain individuals on grounds of insufficient evidence . |
| 6 | The survey said that for the first time , there was a shift in reasons given for cutting back on red meat . |
| 7 | We hope we will be forgiven for editing out of Dr Schore 's discussion of the background to LM 's but inclusion would have meant duplication since John Tomlinson 's Dose Dilution and the LM Potencies already covers the points he makes . |
| 8 | The narrators have been persecuted for standing up for their principles . |
| 9 | The man so often pilloried for fouling up on the big occasion was determined to make no mistake this time , racing to the front immediately to keep out of trouble and defying his opponents to get past . |
| 10 | Perhaps it 's the editor of Living Marxism who should think about going back to an educational establishment ? |
| 11 | A HOSPITAL consultant who claimed she was sacked after speaking out against nursing shortages won her appeal against dismissal yesterday . |
| 12 | The car transporter ended up blocking the A40 northbound after going out of control on a sliproad . |
| 13 | ( a ) The Agency Principle Section 5 of the Partnership Act ( power of partner to bind the firm ) states that : Every partner is an agent of the firm and his other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership ; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way of business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he is a member bind the firm and his partners , unless the partner so acting has in fact no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter , and the person with whom he is dealing either knows that he has no authority , or does not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 14 | These garments were designed for messing around in stables , not for meeting and greeting the electorate . |
| 15 | These penalties , to be sure , fell far short of what she might have expected for speaking out in Stalin 's Russia , which she had continued to admire for far longer than many people . |
| 16 | If the order was to advance , a man 's chances of completing twenty yards would not have been considered worth chalking up on a bookie 's blackboard . |
| 17 | There is no difference in principle between what we propose for finding out about single people and what is proposed in the so-called Bill put forward by the hon. Member for Sheffield , Brightside ( Mr. Blunkett ) , in which he would need to identify pensioners , pensioner couples and people on low incomes . |
| 18 | Ferd seemed like the kind of creature who would know about leaping out at folks . |
| 19 | Posh Porky seemed to be torn between going along with her old man to the synagogue and staying put at the shop , where she 'd sit by the window and start scoffing cream buns the moment he was out of sight . |
| 20 | Forget about strolling down to the shops to get a newspaper or sauntering in the park with the family on Sundays . |
| 21 | You can choose which individual member fights the monster , but forget about ganging up on him . |
| 22 | At the turn of the year , clients dithered about signing up for consultancy projects . |
| 23 | Amanda was rescued after meeting up with a group of hikers who escorted her out of the bush . |
| 24 | It 's the only chance she has of getting out on her own . ’ |
| 25 | It looks like boiling up into a battle in the athletics bullring between Christie , Burrell and fellow American Dennis Mitchell , plus Namibia 's Frankie Fredericks . |
| 26 | December 1988 : The budget deficit for 1988-89 looks like turning out at £4m or £5m . |
| 27 | PARENTS of pupils at the Prime Minister 's old school have voted against opting out of local authority control . |
| 28 | Half listening , half occupied with looking out of the open window at a flock of rooks riding in circles on the breeze , Melissa was vaguely aware of a succession of faint bumping noises in the distance , followed by returning footsteps . |
| 29 | Erikson suggests that at different phases of life an individual faces a particular psycho-social problem which needs to be resolved before moving on to the next phase . |
| 30 | The 11 + examination tested what teachers believed it was important for children to know before going on to secondary school . |