Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can now consider that the new system of sponsoring foreseen by the Lawn Tennis Association no longer contains appreciable restrictions of competition and therefore the file will be closed . ’ |
| 2 | Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him . |
| 3 | Here and there was the occasional flower bed ; the lilies and other wild flowers struggling to thrive amongst the brambles and weeds . |
| 4 | A punctured car wheel that someone was repairing lay in the centre of the floor with half its inner tube hanging out like a paunched rabbit . |
| 5 | He 's helping to drive in the ewes for a mass ante natal clinic . |
| 6 | Commissioner of the Garda Siochana for little more than two years in the 1970s , he presided over a force struggling to cope with a surge in urban crime and the spillover violence of the IRA campaign in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | Representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have been struggling to cope with the flood of refugees and have appealed to the international community to step up relief . |
| 8 | The idea was to start a volunteer counselling service for adult victims of incest and abuse , but the response to Christine 's appeal was so great that ICAIRR is now struggling to cope with the demands on its services . |
| 9 | Life for a single parent was never easy — struggling to cope with the demands of a new baby , while at the same time trying to hold down a job . |
| 10 | Farmers are struggling to cope with an invasion of slugs . |
| 11 | Detailed information on company operations is found to be available only from the individual concerns , and in order to determine the types of materials handling undertaken in the region , a detailed questionnaire has been distributed to over 350 companies , and over 150 replies received . |
| 12 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 13 | toilet training and , well not toilet training but reminding to go to the toilet , look at his hat did you read in the paper that George Best has had to spend half of his testimonial money on debts |
| 14 | For the Nonconformist minister as well as for the man in the pew , preaching lay at the heart of chapel life . |
| 15 | He spent the entire morning with his legs crossed , not daring to go to the loo in case one of his colleagues was in there at the same time and came to the wrong conclusion . ’ |
| 16 | The track continues uphill , soon levelling to pass between the walls of Fell lane , going forward but constricted for a long and uninteresting mile with Ingleborough out of sight and little worthy of note along the way apart from a large rock embedded in the lane and known as Giant 's Grave . |
| 17 | He accused them of failing to face up to the implications of the voters ' choice should this happen , and of preferring to hide from the truth . |
| 18 | He knew that the ditch would be dank with nettles and sour with rotting rubbish , the trees wounded by vandals , the trunks carved with initials , the low branches hanging torn from the boughs . |
| 19 | " Did the service men come ? " asked Clara , feeling some word required of her , and yet not daring to comment upon the story 's true import . |
| 20 | I have not followed international football for well over twenty years , preferring to concentrate on the bread and butter of non-League soccer , so I have no idea what Alf Ramsey thinks . |
| 21 | The Government 's recent decision to allow industrial tribunals to hear claims relating to breach of the employment contract may , however , bring this trend to a halt . |
| 22 | Once again the language is vital to the analysis , for the term ‘ juggling ’ is widely used in relation to detection rates and carries with it an understanding that what is happening belongs to a world where movement conceals as often as it reveals . |
| 23 | An electrically heated wire is cooled by the flow , the rate of cooling depending on the velocity . |
| 24 | It saves you from becoming under-insured as a result of inflation , with the risk of having to find thousands of pounds out of your own pocket in the event of a serious claim . |
| 25 | It is thus automatically kept up-to-date and , providing you were not underinsured to start with , you need no longer worry about becoming under-insured as a result of inflation . |
| 26 | These oolites were probably deposited as part of the coastal sand-barrier complex as it prograded basinwards , before becoming stabilised at the edge of the platform . |
| 27 | Bren was dying to go to the pub . |
| 28 | I even went , I was dying to go to the toilet so I thought oh I 'll go down to the big er and I had no toilet paper so I 'll go down to the big toilets and shower rooms . |
| 29 | ‘ And how did she know he was dying to go to the match ? ’ |
| 30 | There is not point arranging to play squash if you dislike the game , or vowing to go for a jog each day , if you hate running . |