Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [det] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd always said he 'd kill himself driving like that and now he had . |
| 2 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 3 | DRIVING at more than double the speed limit cost a young Newton Valence woman her driving licence . |
| 4 | living with that and then when we got rid of that purple carpet |
| 5 | The work which our consulting engineers have done in conjunction with engineers from York City Council , show in very broad terms , that the existing radial routes within the Greater York area , were all in the period around about nineteen ninety one , all operating at more or less , design capacity . |
| 6 | The Americans owe the company money and they 're waiting for that and also the , they sold one of the machines at the exhibition so , and they 've had some enquiries , so hopefully they 'll bring some work in . |
| 7 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 8 | you 're holding like that and then I 'm cutting there |
| 9 | During the 1980s data networks of various kinds were spreading to more and more United States companies and industries ; several factors encouraged this , not least the deregulation of telecommunications and the emergence of new software packages tailored to particular industries ' networking needs . |
| 10 | Whereas businesses are moving to more and more decentralized operations , business units still need to have instantaneous access to information . |
| 11 | Before the elections of 1964 , 1966 , and 1970 , real personal disposable income was rising at more than double its normal rate of growth — so supporting the political business cycle thesis , but Alt suggests that these " short pre-election spurts may not do the government of the day all that much good , and there is no evidence that they do ( at least if short-term enough ) the economy any particular harm " . |
| 12 | They 're putting parts into used cars but there 's also been a slight upturn in the vehicle market and they 're benefitting from that as well |
| 13 | Rather than , rather than face moving into Benefit where it is very fraught at times and in a situa , and coping with that as well as not knowing what you doing is n't nice . |
| 14 | The Temiar Senoi , for example , will stay up to 15 years in one settlement until travelling to more and more distant areas of cultivation becomes too troublesome , when they will move . |
| 15 | When at last they sat down to eat , a small crowd of children had gathered in the doorway , drawn from their own homes by the smell of puris frying , knowing from this that today was a special occasion . |
| 16 | You loathed it when you saw other people behaving like this and yet you could no more control it in yourself than you could any other automatic physical reflex . |
| 17 | Like I 'd be talking like this and suddenly it 'll go . |
| 18 | I tried to stop her but she kept on putting on more and more outside gear . |
| 19 | Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly . |
| 20 | Eventually it receded leaving the fertile marshlands stretching for more or less ten miles to the wolds , whose now gentle eastern slopes were once the exposed chalk cliffs . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're a good boy , Wayne , ’ Angelica had said , and they 'd both known that she was meaning for more than just the errand . |
| 22 | But neither of these is fully regulated which means that teachers may perhaps find themselves working for less than fully professional organisations . |
| 23 | Well I would say , I mean you you would be working on that and then be working on something else . |
| 24 | At the moment , sad to say that physical vertical is the most effective means of slowing people down and and narrowings and visual erm signs and that kind of thing , road markings , do not have the same effect er but we are working on that and hopefully in our next batch of schemes we will start to experiment with things like speed cushions and what have you which , which have a lesser effect on , on erm on both minibuses and buses . |
| 25 | Part of hir was afraid Jahsaxa was planning on more than just keeping hir as a highclass whore . |