Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am just writing to note that yet another transport consultation paper has turned up on my desk — this time its on the ‘ proposed legislative response to recommendations in noise review report ’ . |
| 2 | The remaining men were just preparing to leave when suddenly a young man called Laban Tall rushed into the malthouse , almost too excited to speak . |
| 3 | If Dunn admitted he owed Rich the money he claimed , and he had it — he was always going to pay but just forgot — he paid it over and that was the end of the matter . |
| 4 | So British ministers are now trying to decide whether also to force British industry to recycle its waste packaging ( and perhaps other used products , too : Germany is proposing to make its car and electronics industries responsible for their worn-out goods ) . |
| 5 | This prompted an unusually animated argument between counsel and the judge , who was clearly outraged at what he expressly called the crass incompetence of the Crown Prosecution Service in serving and making part of the prosecution case a witness they knew would support the defendant and then seeking to discontinue when predictably he did just that . |
| 6 | In restaurants , Ken and Hugh Paddick had meals together where there was inevitably the same story of not being recognized and then having to move because too many people were pestering him . |
| 7 | I think he was either going to flee or perhaps blackmail the murderers , without telling us . |