Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , I found his political philosophy disagreeable and unacceptable , but as my mission was to reach agreement I avoided becoming involved in basic considerations or in any way assessing the value of white rule as against black . |
| 2 | He would have enjoyed seeing more of this blue and green misty world with the lingering scents of ancient magic everywhere and he would have liked to see some of its people and found out how they lived and what they did and if they were happy . |
| 3 | Each sample was labelled with 100 µCi of [ γ-P ] -ATP synthesised by the method of Johnson and Walseth using two to three U of T4 polynucleotide kinase ( NBL , Cramlington , UK ) per sample . |
| 4 | There are still those who say they ca n't get used to Citroen steering and that the suspension makes them sick ; there are many more who say getting used to any other sort of steering after driving a D- or C-series car is much the more difficult adaptation to make . |
| 5 | These included removing dozens of military officers and all 14 Supreme Court judges , approving radical judicial reforms , banning everyone cited for rights abuses from public office for ten years and setting up a compensation fund for victims of the war . |
| 6 | ‘ I shall quite enjoy getting used to this lifestyle . ’ |
| 7 | His education so far has also included getting used to heavy main road traffic , a day 's hunting , playing in and out of our local river and being clipped . |
| 8 | Yet a certain Scottish poet was not far wrong when he described finishing one of that author 's novels as being like emerging from a thin shower of dandruff , unenlivened by even the slightest flash of mediocrity . |
| 9 | Opener Chris Sheldon ( 48 ) dropped anchor and allowed the middle and later order batsmen to attack the bowling , Toft reaching 181 for seven in their 40 overs . |
| 10 | Most have stemmed from evidence provided by Boesky three years ago when he was caught making millions on hot tips from his network of investment bankers , lawyers and brokers . |
| 11 | As a teenager , Sonique was an athlete for the North London borough of Haringay , after which she tried working nine to five but ‘ I could n't do that and be as free as I wanted ’ . |
| 12 | I tried missing some of these parades , but one day I was summoned to the local headquarters of the organization in Parma where a rather fat , forbidding woman of high rank , dressed in Fascist uniform , told me that if I missed any more I would be suspended from school . |
| 13 | With the Winter Gardens show employing 100 to 300 artists every summer and the schools in London and Manchester training others all the year round , there was a never-ending pool of dancers instructed in the Tiller style . |
| 14 | AS BILL GATES PROMISES NT BY YEAR-END , OBJECT LINKING 2 IN 1993 |
| 15 | I want to take you in my arms and kiss you and — ’ He looked to the side to where two people were approaching ; then dropping her hands , he said on a laugh , ‘ I 've only to be seen doing that in public , even holding your hands , and the place would be set on fire . |
| 16 | Mr Ridley 's ‘ mindedness ’ to allow Foxley Wood depended on his view that it was a sounder way of ensuring Hampshire 's share of new housing in the South-east than the county 's own thinking , which assumed finding dozens of smaller sites . |
| 17 | It should allow him to produce a $5,000 to $20,000 Sparc portables line featuring 16-inch to 25-inch colour displays with resolutions of 1152 x 900 and 1280 x 1024 . |
| 18 | As you will appreciate , we completed fully the recent form you sent us , which was the first time I can remember seeing one of this kind . |
| 19 | He could not remember noticing any of this before . |
| 20 | And Rufus , who did n't mind appearing ingenuous in this area , said , ‘ I thought all firearms worked like that . ’ |
| 21 | Erm but there are a few what I call golden rules to avoid becoming one of these four hundred people every week who come into our advice centre . |
| 22 | To avoid becoming embroiled in psychological or philosophical debates concerning selfhood , most of which are individually oriented as well as universalistic in their conclusions , I prefer to use alternative expressions ; either concept of personhood , or concept of human nature . |
| 23 | But by rethinking our approach to haircare , we can keep looking younger for longer . |
| 24 | So Dave said well let's , you know , you sit and eat , and eat , he said let's get up Christmas present , have a couple of Christmas presents , going swimming ten till twelve , perhaps go for a walk over the common or something , |
| 25 | Even if your partner is also positive , it is still best to have safer sex to avoid getting reinfected with different HIV strains or picking up other sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 26 | I do n't remember doing much of that on the day thing . |
| 27 | whilst boys are ALMOST ALWAYS shown developing independent lives and independently meeting challenges and finding their own solutions , girls are RARELY shown doing either of these ; |
| 28 | So that makes it very easy to fill in , so I do n't mind doing that at all . |
| 29 | I would n't mind trying some of those erm |
| 30 | ‘ Would you mind polishing some of these smeary glasses ? ’ |