Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My support for Leeds is just as great as my hatred of the scum , so I for one will be rooting for a 1 nil defeat on saturday , with Leeds hopefully going on to do well in the FA cup . |
| 2 | I fall asleep more grudgingly , thrashing at the waves , either reluctant to let a good day depart or still bitching about a bad one . |
| 3 | The speakers hardly whine and Jim Reid now sings with a US accent , rather than mumbling in a Scots one — it all sounds improbably adult-oriented . |
| 4 | Evans-Pritchard is suspicious of the parallel drawn by Freud between the evolution of mankind from an animistic phase , through a religious phase , ending in a scientific one , and the growth to maturity of a child , from primary narcissism , through object-relations , primarily parents , to end as a mature , rational , reality-orientated adult . |
| 5 | It 's fin okay if we 're looking for a thirtieth we 'd find thirty in there . |
| 6 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 7 | ( And finding examiners is not always easy either … when looking for a Polish one , I was recommended the very student who needed one ! ) |
| 8 | The pleasures and rewards of looking after a loved one can be immense . |
| 9 | They usually moan when the engine is low on oil or if the oil relief valve plunger spring has gone weak This is mounted on the top of the oil cooler between the union and the pipe Removing the spring and replacing with a new one or sometimes stretching the spring cures the groaning noise Whilst the groan sounds awful it is not actually detrimental to the operation of the vehicle |
| 10 | I 'm waiting for a new one . |
| 11 | Once the adult is much larger than a sperm cell , it pays some individuals to produce a small number of large gametes , rather than a large number of small ones , because a large gamete ( after fusing with a small one ) has a much better chance of surviving to become an adult . |
| 12 | This is a classic example of a weak party ( the customer ) contracting with a strong one ( the finance company ) . |
| 13 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 14 | Riding on a high she had decided to set herself up as an independent designer . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the proposal — which owes much to the structure of Aegon ( itself the product of a proprietary company , ENNEA , merging with a mutual one , AGO , more than a decade ago ) — is being closely studied by the many other mutual UK life assurers who find themselves short of free capital . |
| 16 | An example of a unique sequence , of immense improbability , evolving from a random one in the laboratory will be discussed in the last chapter . |
| 17 | The size of a piece of furniture can look amazingly different when placed in different surroundings — lost in a vast , tall room , overpowering in a small one . |
| 18 | The poet writes in the first person singular as a man talking to a loved one about the inevitable advent of his death , and yet the matter discussed here is not so much death as the gradual disappearance of life . |
| 19 | I 'm hoping for a new one this year . |
| 20 | Teachers Sarah , Caroline , Else and Wendy send a big ‘ Thank You ’ to everyone who supported their first ever Rally and helped to make it a big success — they are actually thinking of a second one this year ! |
| 21 | Elegy is further accompanied ‘ by a diffused , resigned , melancholy sense of the passing of time , of the old order changing and yielding to a new one ’ ; while true of Beowulf and The Idylls of the King this is conspicuously truer of The Return of the King and its dissolution of the Third Age . |
| 22 | Shopping for a new one was interesting . |
| 23 | is it me or are they sort of going round in a circle of Elsa , Sarah and erm some other people , some of the other common lot cos erm they seem to be cuddling and hugging like a different one every day , have you noticed that ? |
| 24 | As noted by Fforde , the question of how to respond to the Land Campaign threw the Conservatives into fresh disagreements , and there was no sign that the party , Having abandoned much of its 1910 election platform , was capable of agreeing upon a new one . |
| 25 | Robinson , working on a lower one , was trapped by a 1½ cwt. lump of shale which fell from the belly of the earth face . |