Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Erm I could n't er you 'd , I 'd need warning of that of course . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I want to go camping with some of my friends |
| 7 | Of course there must have been prohibitions and limits set , but I do n't remember rebelling against any of them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | I I remember working on some of the of the paperwork involved in it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He started looking at some of the nearby pillars and columns , his boots scraping on the glass slabs of the floor as he moved . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His early years had been spent cringing under those of his terrifying and frequently drunken Scottish father . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | The energies released enable the young teacher to ‘ try again' on some of the preferred but unsuccessful teaching strategies of the first year . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | If you are just starting with video , or even if you think you 're very familiar with it , try running through some of these familiarisation routines : |
| 19 | The Australian government has announced that it intends to allow logging in all of the country 's forests except those already protected as reserves or national parks . |
| 20 | In all other cases , if the owner or agent is unable to allow viewing on any of the requested dates , the owner or agent must offer the choice of at least three weekdays and two Saturdays or Sundays in the following four-week period . |
| 21 | Not only is it impractical , and possibly unethical , to restrict psychobiological studies to work on humans and great apes but it would also mean throwing out most of the work done to date , since most of that has involved the use of non-primates like cats , hamsters , and especially rats . |
| 22 | But I think probably the most disturbing was some of the poor people in , in psychiatry erm and er that was very hard work because you seemed to take the problems home with you and you kept thinking about some of the conditions that people had . |
| 23 | Papa did n't know what to do , and then he got talking to some of his cronies , and he decided on a Grand Scheme . |
| 24 | ‘ I hate talking about all of them as though they were a lost tribe . ’ |
| 25 | This is very impressive , until we start looking at some of the factors in the equation : |
| 26 | Some chemists now offer testing for both of these . |
| 27 | While fruit and cereals may seem appealing to some of us for breakfast , others may prefer fish or even bacon and tomatoes . |
| 28 | So what does that 's when you start thinking about half of a quarter it gets very confusing what do you mean do you mean half or a quarter ? |
| 29 | Why do we not start talking about some of our successes ? |
| 30 | Maybe what I ca n't help bringing into some of my work is that all this beauty on Koraloona demands a price . |