Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what the fucking hell are you doing here apologizing for apologizing for a drug . |
| 2 | We will ensure that , following maternity leave or a career break , all women working in the NHS , including those returning to nursing on a part-time or job-sharing basis , are able to return to work of a similar status or level to that which they left . |
| 3 | ‘ Just let me jump out of the canoe for you , ’ she muttered through gritted teeth , returning to paddling with a new fury . |
| 4 | This aircraft , together with S1263 and S1264 , was also modified to accept installation of three 825hp Rolls-Royce Buzzard IIMS engines , the first machine so updated flying in March 1932 , and being redesignated Iris Mk V. Both S1263 and S1264 were lost in 1933 , S1263 sinking after colliding with a launch in Plymouth Sound . |
| 5 | I 'm writing with regard to a letter from Andy Mitchell from Ashington ( Aug ‘ 92 ) , who was looking for help in the preamp/processor direction , and was looking for the Eddie Van Halen , Brian May and the Nuno Bettencourt sounds for his processor . |
| 6 | Called the Franchise Company it claims to offer help and advice on all aspects of franchising to any firm looking at franchising as a means of expansion . |
| 7 | Heavy going for reading as a skill . |
| 8 | Provision for children with special educational needs is becoming a major problem , leading to overspending in a considerable proportion of local authority education budgets . |
| 9 | Married with two small children , 38-year-old Mr. Keech spent three years as an education welfare officer in the late 1970s , before turning to teaching including a spell as deputy headteacher . |
| 10 | By noon , he could hardly stand , let alone tramp over the moor , and he stumbled about , muttering away in Gaelic , complaining about working for a bunch of foreigners who had usurped his rightful King . |
| 11 | I 'm aiming towards sending off a return on Monday week . |
| 12 | Mr Byron Butler , 52 , the chairman , told him to make the necessary adjustments out of court before proceeding with sentencing in a drink-drive case . |
| 13 | The woman I 'm staying with comes from a mining family , and as I was watching the news I heard the ironing board creaking in the kitchen . |
| 14 | The criminal law defines only some types of violence as criminal assault ; it excludes verbal assaults that can , and sometimes do , break a person 's spirit ; it excludes forms of assault whose injuries become apparent years later , such as those resulting from working in a polluted factory environment where the health risk was known to the employer but concealed from the employee ( Swartz 1975 ) ; it excludes ‘ compulsory ’ drug-therapy or electric-shock treatment given to ‘ mentally disturbed ’ patients or prisoners who are denied the civilized rights to refuse such beneficial medical help ( Mitford 1977 ; Szasz 1970,1977a , 1977b ) ; it excludes chemotherapy prescribed to control ‘ naughty ’ schoolboys , but includes physically hitting teachers ( Box 1981b ; Schrag and Divoky 1981 ) . |
| 15 | Keating , speaking before leaving on a two-week trip to the United States and Europe , said he would certainly touch on the republic issue in his talks with the Queen , but his views would be no surprise to her . |
| 16 | Accuracy means speaking without sounding like a foreigner , both in pronunciation , grammar and in the choice of vocabulary . |
| 17 | He spent three years at Charing Cross Hospital School of Nursing before qualifying as a Registered General Nurse in 1983 . |
| 18 | I could learn tailoring by sitting at a bench . |
| 19 | I did n't know what to say , but I 'd been reading about mating in a book only a few days before , so I kept a perfectly straight face and replied . |
| 20 | What had this Richard Blake said , well , she got the impression that he was counting on coming to a series of Transatlantic insurance conferences in the spring , and he was either coming to Montreal first , or to New York , she could n't remember which order it was , search me , said Louise , she had n't thought it mattered all that much . |
| 21 | Her name was Bessie Braddock and she had publicly refused that year to stay in the headquarters hotel , insisting on going to a boarding house instead . |
| 22 | Yet he was insisting on going to a whelping case . |
| 23 | Counselling will advise them of the risks , if any , that they may be taking by embarking on a further conception . |
| 24 | refers to as some contrived means such as a disagreement , ’ and if that duty can only be discharged by adjourning for rehearing by a bench of three then that is the just and proper course to take . |
| 25 | Away we went , the Corporal talking about getting into a drainage ditch to hide our scent . |
| 26 | Bettaware , the curtains group where former Debenhams chief Robert Thornton is chairman , enjoyed a speculative run with some talking about stakebuilding by a determined buyer . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you think this is a punishment from God for talking about walking on a Sunday , Uncle Rory ? ’ |
| 28 | there and then , now if we 're talking about closing for a minute , right |
| 29 | ‘ Who 's talking of dying on a fine day like this ? ’ |
| 30 | Mrs Friar failed to notice the sarcasm and went on , ‘ I wis just thinkin' o' droppin' in a wee present . |