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Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1	Starting with a fascinating selection of photos taken during Mosquito production at Hatfield ( UK ) , Downsview ( Canada ) and Bankstown ( Australia ) , further sections deal with the fighter and bomber variants of this maid-of-all-work , only serving to illustrate what an aesthetically pleasing aircraft the Mosquito was from all angles .
2	The kid comes out hard , apparently wanting to make it a real fight .
3	MPs are getting letters complaining that fathers may have already taken on commitments they ca n't get out of and they were only expecting to pay whatever the courts had fixed .
4	You will soon realise the difficulties and will not need much persuading to make yourself a fixed camera mount .
5	While I knew he was only trying to give me a kick up the backside for my own good , I felt really , really low .
6	‘ While I knew he was only trying to give me a kick up the backside for my own good , I felt really , really low .
7	I 'm just going to pour you a
8	I was just going to call you a bitch .
9	I 'm just going to give you a couple of things that you can use for each of these phases , and when you get used to them , you can really spread out and do all sorts of other exciting things .
10	‘ I 'm just going to get myself a beer .
11	‘ I was just coming to give you a hand , son . ’
12	Erm we 've covered it I 've done it before I 'm just trying to remember what the answer was .
13	Now I just trying to think what the other the name of the other one was .
14	In truth , I was just hoping to give him a good game . ’
15	In truth , I was just hoping to give him a good game . ’
16	Twenty years ago they were Labour but switched in 1979 for one reasons , the right to buy which gave those genuinely attempting to better themselves the chance to do so .
17	But the recounting of all the statements a team of detectives might take in the course of a major inquiry is hardly going to make you a book that will grip readers .
18	He then built a machine for the piano which had a series of lights which went on and off ensuring that you played the right note — without ever having to understand what a sharp or a flat was .
19	Miss Hinkle was always trying to make me an office magnate , dictating letters and answering telephone calls .
20	‘ The Madine 's , Johnston 's and Brown 's all took their baptism in competition like this , and we 're always hoping to discover someone a little special . ’
21	Blackout is no good while fires are still burning to show them the way , the bloody swines . ’
22	And he 's not wanting flowers and he 's not wanting this , not wanting that , it 's really wanting to keep it a very , quiet small affair .
23	And they are , they are interested in cyclists but from what I could make out reading this they 're not really going to help us a great deal .
24	‘ You 're really going to have yourself a good time . ’
25	I 'm now going to teach you a long-overdue lesson , my dear .
26	Saul Weinberg 's exploration at Tel Anafa in Upper Galilee is now beginning to give us an idea of a small Hellenistic centre of the second century B.C. in its intercourse with Phoenician towns and with the Greek world of the eastern Mediterranean .
27	Insurers who used to assess their premiums every year , are now having to reassess them every six months and in some cases every four .
28	It 's now proposing to make it a criminal offence to park a caravan on land without consent .
29	‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’
30	We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would .