Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it rather rich for eating as a table cheese , but a few spoonfuls stirred into hot pasta is delicious . |
| 2 | This is structured by hourly changes of sail or course , so that the crew can learn as much as possible about handling in the time they are aboard . |
| 3 | Beaten again : Martina Navratilova lost in two straight sets at Flushing Meadow yesterday but she in not definite about retiring from the game . |
| 4 | I lost my temper too — I 'm sorry for shouting about the fire . |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of people feel shy about going into a Tax Office , so this is a good opportunity for them to get any help they need , ’ explained Peter Guy , the Inland Revenue 's Customer Service Manager in the province . |
| 6 | Southend pumps its sewage into the sea after primary treatment ; the beach at Westcliff has just been called unsuitable for swimming by the Heinz Good Beach Guide . |
| 7 | He jumped , feeling guilty about staring into the car . |
| 8 | Salmond had been the recipient of abuse all that day , mainly from Labour for voting with the Government on Maastricht the night before . |
| 9 | FIREFIGHTER Gary Madill is lucky to be alive after crashing through a roof and smashing 25 feet to the ground . |
| 10 | There are 30 craftsmen at Bringwyn and they 've become blase about working in a stately Victorian ballroom . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not the same as actually being fat — when you feel embarrassed about squeezing into a small space behind a table , or when you pull your shirt tail down so no one sees the fat hanging over the top of your jeans . |
| 12 | Was , was everybody embarrassed about going to the pawnbrokers or did n't did n't some people |
| 13 | Do n't be embarrassed about lying on a bed in the shop to try it out , and make sure you test the actual size you want to buy . |
| 14 | The reader of a description needs therefore to be careful about accepting as a description anything more than is actually visible on the canvas or in the sculpture . |
| 15 | You 'd have to know the pilotage , and be very careful about taking in a vessel of any size . |
| 16 | Agents Mathews and Goodman are looking for rents of around ££10 a sq ft for space in Martin 's Building as it becomes free for letting with a range of suites up to 14,000 sq ft being available . |
| 17 | The provision of an adequate flat-rate pension would also prove a better vehicle than pension-splitting for dealing with the problems that are likely to face older women in the future as a result of divorce . |
| 18 | Liz Kennedy was hit in face by flying debris when a special effect went wrong during filming of the BBC 's £850,000 political thriller ‘ Love Lies Bleeding ’ . |
| 19 | Engineering is a professional subject and the BEng and MEng degrees offered in the School are all accredited by the appropriate Professional Engineering Institution as acceptable for leading to the status of Chartered Engineer . |
| 20 | The Italians are getting jumpy after drawing against the Swiss in Cagliari . |
| 21 | So a word of warning : be careful of relying on a person too far away from yourself . |
| 22 | There was a certain story my father was fond of repeating over the years . |
| 23 | Writers about midlife are fond of referring to the empty nest syndrome , much to the annoyance of feminists , who deplore the notion that women need children to bolster their sense of self-worth . |
| 24 | I would suggest ‘ He was a great realist ’ or perhaps ‘ He was never afraid of looking like a prat ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm afraid of slipping in the dark and cracking my head on the edge of the bunker , ’ I had said . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not that I 'm afraid of living in a strange place , Ruth . |
| 27 | Pacepa says that Ceauşescu was afraid of poisoning after the CIA 's attempt to murder Fidel Castro by impregnating his clothes with potions to make his beard fall out , and so he ordered the Securitate department which provided all his personal needs free of charge to arrange for the manufacture of a new set of clothes for every day of his life . |
| 28 | But it is absurd to be unduly afraid of borrowing by the state . |
| 29 | 'Are you afraid of going into the glory of our Lord Hapexamendios ? ’ |
| 30 | May I help you by suggesting that if you could persuade the Prime Minister to fix the election date now there would be no need for this pre-election period — if the Prime Minister would stop shilly-shallying because he is afraid of going to the country . |