Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson , of 8th Signals , Catterick Garrison , had just bought it after deliberately going in search of the drug because he wanted to try it , the court martial was told . |
| 2 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |
| 3 | Ideal for just walking round town . |
| 4 | A Parliamentary and Local Government Advisory Committee was also set up with a brief to ‘ consider and recommend to the General Committee what , in their opinion , is necessary for the purpose of effectively carrying into effect the resolution passed at the Swansea Congress ’ . |
| 5 | Groups are said to work because the group members can now react to each other instead of just reacting to management . |
| 6 | This would be a great help , instead of just relying at present on judging conformation in the hope of reducing strain on tendons . |
| 7 | ‘ Evening Landlord , Master Gates , ’ he spoke in a loud voice and exercised his usual habit of momentarily standing on tip toes as he addressed them . |
| 8 | Always assuming the unlikelihood of ever getting on disc a pluperfect realisation of Bartók 's Second Violin Concerto , this new release from the prodigiously-gifted Anne-Sophie Mutter will come close enough for most people . |
| 9 | He then telephoned Ken Berry , to begin the task of urgently calling in money from abroad . |
| 10 | John Hemmings , aged 54 , was found guilty by magistrates at Dartford , Kent , of illegally possessing for sale 22,902 eggs . |
| 11 | They could n't understand the practice of mainly worshipping in silence and without a minister , or without the trappings of church rituals . |
| 12 | Even then she had found it difficult to get up in the morning , had begged and pleaded to be allowed to lie in a little longer , had gone back to sleep more often than not , the forerunner , Cecilia supposed , of her present practice of often lying in bed till noon . |
| 13 | But instead of simply struggling in embarrassment they can turn to their advisers and ask for help : " What do I say now ? " , |
| 14 | A final difficulty associated with attempts to formulate a sentencing tariff arises from the coexistence of other sentencing aims alongside that of simply punishing in proportion to the offender 's ‘ just deserts ’ . |
| 15 | Instead of simply going to bed , she insisted on returning , believing that it was her duty to try and fulfil her obligations . |
| 16 | FOR a supposed corpse , America 's junk-bond market has developed an unnerving habit of sporadically twitching into life . |
| 17 | But the days of aimlessly wandering on enemy beaches were over and specific targets could be raided despite their defences : targets the scientists and planners calculated as most likely to influence the war . |
| 18 | Without employing his own servants as agents and deputies Sadler obviously could not have managed his group of offices ; as it was he complained of seldom going to bed before midnight and generally waking by 4. a.m . |
| 19 | Students could be given the opportunity of actively searching for information about some topic in which they are interested . |
| 20 | Sedimentation goes on all the time , for ever moving from place to place , for ever cannibalising itself . |
| 21 | ‘ It is just , ’ said Hope , looking at Mrs Crump as if she were a particularly testing landscape — perhaps a copse whose colours were for ever changing under sun and scudding clouds — ‘ it is just , ’ he said , ‘ and I am sure , certain , that someone must have told you this — ‘ |
| 22 | Rose Shepherd goes on to argue that a first affair , usually based on attraction , leads to further affairs based on nothing more than boredom , loneliness , resentment , or the need for further boosting of confidence once the first extramarital partner has bowed out . |
| 23 | ‘ There is a doctor near here specialising in candida sufferers who sends his patients to eat here , ’ said Rex . |
| 24 | So , so , you know , for a lot of , I would n't say a lot , but there is a , a group in the population that are basically concerned with just surviving in agriculture , and would n't even consider , even if they are , say have got a high IQ or something , they just physically ca n't migrate because of the cost . |
| 25 | It is best treated with relaxation therapy and with just lying in bed , resting , even if sleep does not come . |
| 26 | Both were jointly charged with unlawfully damaging by fire property belonging to the Ministry of Defence , worth , the court heard , an estimated £40m . |
| 27 | Dumpy little short-necked diving ducks , with grebe-like habits including sometimes sinking below water except for head , often swimming with tail cocked up . |
| 28 | Mr Major is furious at the rebels ' tactics in gleefully voting with Labour and the Liberal Democrats when it suits them . |
| 29 | Although SDPJ leader Takako Doi had wanted to field more candidates she had been prevented from so doing by pressure from sitting socialist members of the Diet . |
| 30 | Perhaps he really did want to cut loose and was restrained from so doing by Maman , who would have regarded it as disloyal . |