Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were very open to a range of ideas from big to little ; the mother of a mentally-handicapped child wrote in wanting to do something for mentally-handicapped children , and she had got an idea about setting it in the production office of a children 's comic . |
| 2 | For the successful person , a winning attitude means looking to learn something in all the everyday events that you encounter . |
| 3 | But he went on refusing to say anything at all about what he 'd been doing in Paris . |
| 4 | ‘ We are creating and missing so many chances that sooner or later we 're going to hit someone for six , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Do you think people who are digging all these bits up are going to know everything about all the things they 've dug up ? |
| 6 | And one was that this bungalow should be retained completely er by members of the Hosiery Finishers in spite of being a national union which of course has still operated , and secondly , that er nobody should go to this union until er er at least when I 've finished that they should be voted for and they were n't going to impose anybody on this union , they 'd vote for somebody from among their own members , which of course operated and that 's operating now . |
| 7 | And on the other hand , the moment they , they 're going to stick masses and masses er o o of stands , the the these market trader pieces on it , and really I ca n't understand er why bother , if you 're going to destroy something in that sort of way ? |
| 8 | So We know the graph is going to look something like this . |
| 9 | ‘ But how is Len going to afford anything like that if he do n't get no compensation ? ’ |
| 10 | She told me , ‘ Martha , you 've brought me your pay , like a good girl , and we need it all , but I 'm going to buy something for that lonely child at the Manor , ’ and she bought one , and here it is ! ’ |
| 11 | He 's in trouble ; he 's going to buy someone with that cross . |
| 12 | I am going to do something about this child , she told herself . |
| 13 | If you 're going to do something like this , do it big . |
| 14 | ‘ We wrote that song two years ago , because we knew we were going to do something within two years and now it 's happening . |
| 15 | ‘ We wrote that song two years ago , because we knew we were going to do something within two years and now it 's happening . |
| 16 | We talk later on , sort of thing when I say do nothing , you 're going to do something in that bit , but as far as you 're concerned it 's idle time . |
| 17 | Oh no , no , no , please , turn round I 'm going to do something in that slip . |
| 18 | Yes , well Bev was asking , I mean I was doing housework , oh , I was doing bits and pieces you know , and er getting me coat and all that and er she was asking questions and all that and Liz said I 'll pick you up at twenty past eleven , so Bev said alright then , so she come off the phone said she 'd go and have a look and apparently erm , it must of been yesterday if , if Liz is telling the truth she said to whoever are you going to do anything about this ? |
| 19 | Cuddle it right , it 's wrapped up in about six layers of erm whatever , are you just going to pick it up and cuddle it or are you going to do anything with all those layers ? |
| 20 | Well quite obviously if you are going to curtail something like that , some of those who had been on the police authorities will now find that they are not on the police authority and therefore that causes understandable anxiety and therefore rumpus . |
| 21 | And you might could try a thousand K , erm , with oth other programs , if you start using Windows , y you need to use the so software called Microsoft Windows if you 're going to use one to four . |
| 22 | This pseudo-cleft structure would signal that the first part ‘ we are attempting to draw something in this book ’ is given and the second part ‘ this something is a general picture ’ is new . |
| 23 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 24 | Tears were n't going to solve anything at all . |
| 25 | I 'm not going to pursue anybody on this one so I mean I 'm not yo you ca you can answer with er with impunity . |
| 26 | There could hardly be a more opportune time for attempting to salvage something for those young people who are currently gaining little if anything from the educational system . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not going to name anyone in particular but you are all aware of those who have been to Australia this winter with the A team , and they have all got a chance of coming through this summer especially some of the young bowlers . ’ |
| 28 | Are we actually going to learn anything from this recent disastrous period ? |
| 29 | Well if you , all I was going to say is , if you 're going to get something like that , I mean we could buy something that would make a set . |
| 30 | ‘ You know , I was rather afraid you were going to say something like that . ’ |