Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their first meeting , Berenson is described as ‘ a gentleman with a reddish beard ’ ; apologising for turning up at the artist 's studio unannounced , he offered the excuse that he was ‘ the person who bought all your pictures from Torrini ’ ( an antique dealer with whom Joni placed his first works for sale ) . |
| 2 | He had been pacing the room with slow majestic energy ending by peering down through the venetian blind at Madison below . |
| 3 | Election ‘ 92 : Searching for take off without a yogic pilot |
| 4 | He 's looking to getting out of the hospit looking forward to a , a change |
| 5 | We 'll cover the purchase by looking to coming out of your present holdings towards the end of the account , maybe today if the Index picks up … " |
| 6 | Also worth looking at to keep up to date are the Radio Times and TV Times : useful sources of information on current programmes together with the names of the presenters and producers . |
| 7 | I think we 've only got four which er this aircraft can fly or for the moment the three tornado F three bases and the one jaguar base er is the ministry says they 're looking at cutting back on those ? |
| 8 | Och , Ah 've been dyin' tae get up for a weekend amang yirsels . |
| 9 | So I need to be able to get down to actu that 's when you , supposing that comes down by another ten K say , so then we 're talking about fifty K , thereabouts , overspend in the main area , in which case to work out what 's caused that , is that directly attributable to the the inputting of the systems . |
| 10 | This takes a full litre of water — enough for one-and-a-half hours of constant steam ironing without going back to the tap . |
| 11 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 12 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 13 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 14 | It may not sound like much to get excited about but for enthusiasts even the merest chance of a sighting is somehting worth turning out for . |
| 15 | But , I mean , even if erm she was saying about going down to Olympia and stuff , were n't she , or somewhere ? |
| 16 | It was not a position anyone could maintain comfortably for long , and it seemed to Clare that he was deliberately refraining from lying down beside her . |
| 17 | and then up so you scr draw it starting to coming up like that . |
| 18 | Smith said that some of the reporters had been drinking before getting down to the job of covering the fight ; Hearn is considering litigation . |
| 19 | In these circumstances the ego simply has no hope of triumphing by measuring up to the ideal standards of the superego , in so far as it exists . |
| 20 | He was talking about branching out into the ship-in-a-bottle business because Jonathon will make only ships . |
| 21 | And they will recall that it 's not long since Evans was talking about cashing in on Rugby Union in South Africa ! |
| 22 | Yeah but I 'm talking about going up to the gym . |
| 23 | You talking about going out on the streets , it does n't get them anywhere half the time . |
| 24 | You 're not walking , not about widespread privatisation , but creeping privatisation and you 're now talking about not opting out of the National Health Service but you 're now talking about opting out of local national Health Service control . |
| 25 | or write you down as time scale , you 'd presumably talking about planning up to six weeks perhaps before she trots around . |
| 26 | The clubhead is changing from going up to coming down and the resultant force is so great that the wrists break more fully … if you 're relaxed . |
| 27 | The most important thing to emphasise is that , regardless of the attitude of the glider , if it is not responding to moving back on the stick or if the stick is hitting the back stop , a forward movement must be made to allow the glider to unstall . |
| 28 | Not only had Bohr explained Balmer 's mysterious formula ( and other later formulae for lines corresponding to ending up in orbits with unc but he had also enabled the value of the Rydberg constant A to be calculated in terms of the known quantities m , e , c and h . |
| 29 | You may be able to accommodate this bending by tying in to a longish pergola or trellis on a wall or fence . |
| 30 | So I was racing through South London on my bike , nearly getting crushed several times by lorries , head bent over the dropped handlebars , swiftly running through the ten Campagnola gears , nipping through traffic , sometimes mounting the pavement , up one-way streets , breaking suddenly , accelerating by standing up on the pedals , exhilarated by thought and motion . |