Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate driving round this with the rack on I absolutely hate it if it 's windy it 's awful . |
| 2 | Rather than acknowledge this , if he is infertile , he 'll often feel no longer a man , and it is this feeling that needs addressing by both of you . |
| 3 | Erm I could n't er you 'd , I 'd need warning of that of course . |
| 4 | It had a strong musical slant , with the Dave Lee Trio around to provide backing to some of the most popular vocalists of the day . |
| 5 | The above examples demonstrate what can be done if a ballet is to communicate meaning beyond that of distinguishing between the world of the flesh and that of the spirit . |
| 6 | He got one against Swindon last season and ca n't wait to go looking for more in the Premier League . |
| 7 | He would never have been allowed to remain looking like that in the regimented environment of a long-stay ward , but the staff of the house were striving to apply their understanding of the principles of normalization . |
| 8 | He writes : ‘ The faithful transcription of the sound patterns of speech by a fully developed alphabet has freed writing from some of the ambiguities of oral language . |
| 9 | I want to go camping with some of my friends |
| 10 | what do you keep looking at that for ? |
| 11 | Of course there must have been prohibitions and limits set , but I do n't remember rebelling against any of them . |
| 12 | The temporary but lengthy closure of most of the Galleria Borghese in Rome has allowed the restoration department of the Palazzo Barberini to undertake some much needed cleaning of some of the paintings . |
| 13 | Again the data seem reassuring in that in 1979 , 27% of residents in public sector beds were defined as high dependency patients compared with 22% in the private sector ; in 1990 the proportions were 26% and 29% respectively . |
| 14 | Whom do I remember talking to most as a child ? |
| 15 | Look , I do n't like talking about this on the telephone . |
| 16 | Writing for period instruments ( players from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ) was a further excuse to stick to the keys that Mozart wrote in , and fully enjoy playing with some of the most wonderful musical ideas anyone has ever had . ’ |
| 17 | I know he keeps going like this with it , he keeps going |
| 18 | I I remember working on some of the of the paperwork involved in it . |
| 19 | I 've also recently purchased an effects processor ( BOSS SE50 ) and as most of the patches for the guitar were boring , I started experimenting with some of my own . |
| 20 | He started looking at some of the nearby pillars and columns , his boots scraping on the glass slabs of the floor as he moved . |
| 21 | It was about then [ three years ago ] that I started going with some of my mates like Kevin(10) and Eddie(6) … and Eddie and me we got into a lot of fights and that … and the fucking coppers — they always grab either him or me when there 's any bother or that . |
| 22 | What are you lot doing starting like this without us ? |
| 23 | His early years had been spent cringing under those of his terrifying and frequently drunken Scottish father . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't you listen to Woil , 'cos given half a chance he 'll tell you all sorts of nonsense that no eagle should listen to , ’ Kraal said when Woil first started talking like this after Creggan 's arrival . |
| 25 | And he started playing through some of the songs from my club repertoire , answering my enquiring look with , ‘ I worked with you a couple of years back , in East Dean Working Men 's Club . ’ |
| 26 | Continue folding like this along the pastry . |
| 27 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 28 | The energies released enable the young teacher to ‘ try again' on some of the preferred but unsuccessful teaching strategies of the first year . |
| 29 | I try walking like that for a bit . |
| 30 | It did n't seem like a diet — in fact , if there was one sentence that kept reappearing in most of the letters I received , it was : ‘ You ca n't call this a diet , it 's more a way of eating ’ . |