Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success . |
| 2 | Impressionistically , however , the courts seem more reluctant now to use customs and usages to imply contract terms , although this is possibly because they do not draw the distinction clearly enough between mod-ifying a contract and understanding its terms . |
| 3 | Having stressed the problems , it is perhaps worth taking a look at the advantages . |
| 4 | It is perhaps worth taking a minute or two to invite the Secretary of State to answer those arguments in his reply and to explain how they have been overcome in the new council tax system . |
| 5 | ‘ Senior officials in the Executive have spoken a great deal and written much about delivering a quality service . |
| 6 | Just such a device was available in the shape of AM Varityper 's VT600 , a PostScript 600dpi plain paper page printer , although it was only through reading a year 's worth of back copies of the Desktop Publisher newsletter that Tony Gamble ever found out about it . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think I care very much for having a foreigner telling the White House , the Pentagon and the FBI how to run their business . ’ |
| 8 | Would anyone like to get together about starting a paper , it said , if so , meet with Wilcock . |
| 9 | Alejandro was all for putting a bullet through this she-devil 's head and dispatching her to the nearest abattoir . |
| 10 | Yeah , you should of said yes , I said , I 'm all for doing a survey wi , I 'm , your being recorded . |
| 11 | ‘ Scroungers ’ did exist , irresistibly when many were poor and charity was to be had sometimes merely for attending a church service ; and then as now there was a flourishing mythology of great sums inveigled from charity by shrewd layabouts . |
| 12 | If it 's a ten p bit of influence , it 's only worth spending a couple of pence on it . |
| 13 | ‘ Look , mon cher , ’ I told him when he stormed below after having a row with Igor . |
| 14 | A psychiatrist was called in and Max was given the treatment he needed , but only after serving a month in Brixton . |
| 15 | To him it was essentially a community-based populist movement which , while it was capable of employing a revolutionary rhetoric , was not so of organising a revolution . |
| 16 | If a firm is to be successful , it will have to generate sufficient income to cover the cost not only of financing a capital asset but of replacing it when it is worn out . |
| 17 | Goddard arrived in place of Yallop for the final 11 minutes but Ipswich never looked much like pulling a goal back until injury time when Williams fired narrowly wide . |
| 18 | With many of the creative accounting techniques implemented by councils in the 1980s being increasingly subject to central control , in the longer term public-sector capital investment looks very much like becoming a minority interest . |
| 19 | Under the given conditions , changes of cholinesterase activity would have been demonstrable long before reaching a danger level , and would have provided an early warning . |
| 20 | She always paused for rather too long before answering a question or responding to a remark for she feared that if she answered hastily she would say something unseemly . |
| 21 | Especially in building a marriage of two different people with two different ways of looking at life . |
| 22 | Always read manufacturer 's instructions carefully — especially before using a depilator for the first time |
| 23 | He succeeds brilliantly in finding a style of speech which is neither archaic nor too modern ( apart from the odd anachronism like cash-flow ) but belongs to a timeless tradition of broad , popular comedy , like Ayckbourn with clogs on . |
| 24 | We er are fortunate enough in having a training scheme , in fact we were able to elect our first pensioner representative trustee two years ago and he is with us today , we 've just had another election and er two this time were elected , they will be trained , they had er Mr Hill had a two-day training by our actuaries er Watsons which are a big company , er but in talking to him about it he felt there was a lot to be said for having continued training , not just at the beginning of a two or three-year stint , but successively later . |
| 25 | The decision , which Western commentators described as " a complicated compromise judgement " , ruled that Yeltsin had acted constitutionally in imposing a ban on the " leading and organizational structures " of the CPSU and the RCP ( insofar as it was a component of the CPSU ) , but not in banning " primary organizations … formed on a territorial basis [ the local party branches ] " since these organizations … did not replace the state structures " . |
| 26 | This desire is also reflected in the encouragement given to pupils to undertake group projects , perhaps in making a display , organizing fund-raising events or planning for an excursion or residential experience . |
| 27 | Well , if I erm said to one of my students something about that was a very good essay you wrote , in fact I 'd like to discuss it a little bit more down at the pub and down at the pub I put my hand on his knee perhaps in making a point about how good his essay was . |
| 28 | Staff , learning of some intimate aspect of a prisoner 's life , perhaps from seeing a file or overhearing a chaplain or social worker discuss confidential information , would be expected to use it to put the prisoner down . |
| 29 | ‘ Lothian … has gained greatly from having a council and a local enterprise company with the same boundary . |
| 30 | This means that it is necessary to work closely with local authorities , and to do so in selecting a site as well as in the construction of the power station and its subsequent operation . |