Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I intend hanging on to junior for a while longer yet , but I 'll let you know . ’ |
| 2 | Many of the knitting pattern diagrams are very simple shapes and make drawing up to full size and shaping , as far as armhole and neck , quite basic . |
| 3 | For a second the wind was blocked and the weight taken from my hands , only to come crashing back in double measure . |
| 4 | Some were veterans of News on Sunday 's many faction fights but now , for once , they stopped ganging up on each other and ganged up on Sutton . |
| 5 | That 's the thing that needs bucking up in this school … |
| 6 | Regional Training Days have continued and class members have enjoyed meeting together in two rallies , one held in April in Timsbury organised by Barbara Potticary , when it was refreshing to join in classes given by Edith Harlow once more and a local class rally held in Devon was very well supported and a most pleasurable event . |
| 7 | And well I , we even considered me and my sister even considered going back into driving instruction . |
| 8 | Three varieties of the common Sweet Briar , R. eglanteria , found growing naturally in some parts of Kent , were listed as double , evergreen and double blush , and the Double Yellow is classed as a variety of the single , Rosa lutea . |
| 9 | She also maintains she would never consider going back to full-time employment and advised other women with good business ideas to ‘ go for it ’ . |
| 10 | Reviewing the impact of the Gulf crisis on the world economy , the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , Michel Camdessus , assured the 41 LDCs that the IMF would help meet " the needs growing out of this crisis " . |
| 11 | Vacations had proved such a strain that she stopped going home at all in the end , applying for any holiday jobs which offered accommodation . |
| 12 | Then my money ran out and I stopped going out at all . |
| 13 | He supposed the women in his life would only stop this outrageous assessing of the women he went out with , when he finally stopped going out with any and settled at home with one . |
| 14 | I can hardly remember why I stopped going out with some of my exes but that does n't mean that I brood about them and their later and surely unsatisfactory relationships with men unable to hold a candle to myself . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , I shall soon get my stripes back and I shall enjoy the excitement of the Commandos ; anyway my Piper friend , I shall enjoy running all over these hills . |
| 16 | Pub landlords say cutting down on young drinkers stops trouble . |
| 17 | And did they reflect that they , who had not merely mastered but discovered the much more difficult law , who had got their economics so impregnably right , would be seen to stand shining brightest of all in the very front rank ? |
| 18 | Neighbours reported hearing up to eight shots before the gunmen made off on foot . |
| 19 | Peter Alliss reckoned it was probably the end for Ballesteros if he had n't come roaring back by 1992 . |
| 20 | Traditionally Asiatics had been employed east of Suez and hired on " Asiatic Articles of Agreement " , a practice which seems to have been generally acceptable since it involved sailing chiefly in Indian and Far Eastern waters . |
| 21 | Once a day he was to practise his relaxation technique and his breathing exercise and then , in the privacy of his own bedroom , to try reading aloud from any book he chose . |
| 22 | On March 18 the Commission proposed carrying forward to 1992/93 the 1991/92 agricultural price support measures [ see pp. 38022-23 ; 38202 ] . |
| 23 | But the solid Swiss world was no phantom , nor would the solar system cease forging steadily through interstellar space : the sun did swing away from our casement , for all that Mary said , for all our forgetting of time , and the baby awoke and cried ; so that Mary , giving me a langourous look , dressed herself carelessly and went down the stairs . |
| 24 | ‘ Women seem to find standing firmly on two feet difficult , ’ Meribeth says . |
| 25 | This involved beaming heartily at all newcomers to the carriage and exuding humour , warmth and trivial monologue . |
| 26 | She pulled them on hastily , half expecting Luke to come bursting in at any minute . |
| 27 | Were it not for the fact that he and Cora-Beth were to continue living here at Blue Ash Farm with her father , he could n't even have afforded to get married . |
| 28 | He says there appeared to be no demand for another residential home because the residents did not want to continue living together in such a large number . |
| 29 | ‘ You know you 're not to go wandering off like that ! |
| 30 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |