Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEEING FOR MILES A story of love , devotion and miracles |
| 2 | He wore his thinning hair short , and his collars long , preferring for dress a clash of tweeds and a striped shirt ; always a tie ; invariably a waistcoat . |
| 3 | Alchemists had expressed chemical reactions and recipes in symbolic form , employing for example a sign used by astrologers for the gloomy planet Saturn to express its associated metal , lead . |
| 4 | Firemen spent 24 hours keeping under control a fire in a barn which contained 80 tonnes of straw . |
| 5 | By the end of the war Winnicott had left the actual practice of physical paediatrics behind , his outpatient clinic at Paddington Green becoming in effect a department of child psychiatry based on psychodynamic theory and on his particular way of using it . |
| 6 | NORMAN Waller was cleared of murder this week after he admitted stabbing to death a man he believed was trying to break into his neighbour 's car . |
| 7 | Among those on the run are Alan Lord , 32 , jailed for life for stabbing to death a father-of-three , David Gilbert , in 1981 , and Mark Azzopardi , 23 . |
| 8 | For £9.4m a sensible organisation would expect to buy a fully completed office development of up to 90,000 square feet , equating to £100 a foot completed . |
| 9 | Starting off in Vienna , the cars will travel through Italy , Switzerland , Croatia and Slovenia before returning to Austria a fortnight later . |
| 10 | While the SAS were returning to Jalo a battle was raging and the Eighth Army was in retreat back to the Egyptian frontier . |
| 11 | Pound may be right or wrong about the merits of Binyon 's version , as about the sorts of language that are acceptable in verse translation ; what is certain is that he 's here applying to diction a sort of sliding scale or set of variable standards such as Ford 's principles did n't allow for . |
| 12 | walking across roads a risk , ai n't it . |
| 13 | Guidance is given for recognising the existence of such circumstances , including of course a member 's breach of the LCH regulations . |
| 14 | Texas Instruments Japan Ltd plans to raise production of integrated circuits for use in liquid crystal diode display drivers to 450,000 a year from the present 100,000 ; it is looking for $500m a year in the things by 1996 , for 15-fold growth . |
| 15 | ‘ You could n't get board and lodging for £50 a year , but we 've heaps of room , and you could write to your heart 's content . |
| 16 | First , we shall be publishing with HMSO a book on Slezer to accompany the exhibition , and should like your permission to reproduce your drawings in this book . |
| 17 | It may surprise you to discover that the continued life expectancy of a forty-year-old man in Britain today has scarcely increased at all on that of a forty-year-old man living in Britain a century ago . |
| 18 | Courses were still expected to provide ‘ as balanced an educational experience as possible ’ , and to aim at developing in students a number of abilities : |
| 19 | Charges ranging from £78 a year for a 240-litre wheeled bin to £290 for a 1,110 litre wheeled bin will start from August this year . |
| 20 | With infinite care and patience , Theda first cleaned the frail and malodorous body from head to toe , enduring in silence a barrage of abuse and complaint the while . |
| 21 | In the meantime , the Lebanese parliament , whose members are meeting in Taif a year after their failure to elect a president led to the creation of rival Lebanese cabinets , is itself in the last stages of life . |
| 22 | The Asian countries , meeting in Bangkok a month ago , mobilised a vigorous attack on the values that they think are being imposed on them . |
| 23 | The brochures offer holiday homes costing from £55 a week and touring and camping facilities from as little as £3.60 a night . |
| 24 | Now she'ss claiming compensation , but Mrs Willies-Williams is broke , living on £30 a week income support , with the DSS paying her mortgage interest of £1500 a month . |
| 25 | Evidence commonly cited in support of this analysis is the close agreement found between persons who are asked to rank-order according to prestige a list of occupations . |
| 26 | In 1939 he bought Cressy and abandoned his career as a practising engineer in favour of a life spent writing on board a canal narrow boat . |
| 27 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 28 | But he reveals that at a crisis meeting at Balmoral a deal was discussed between Charles , Diana , the Queen and Prince Philip . |
| 29 | Most of Scotland is still rising but the south-east of England is sinking by 15cm a century . |
| 30 | In 1976 , as a county court judge , Judge Hill refused to give a wife suing for divorce a court order that her husband 's mistress should be evicted from the marital home . |