Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This promises to make nursing as a career much more dynamic and pro-active , although the nursing role in caring for the sick and those people limited by disability will continue and develop in response to the needs expressed by society . |
| 2 | ‘ Seeing through a glass darkly ’ , he once told an ecumenical committee , ‘ is not the same thing as an ecumenical fog. , After the war he began to travel to meetings as a consultant . |
| 3 | The case for seeing through a glass darkly |
| 4 | Anyway , I 'm goin' fer a job now , but I tell yer , Annie , if they turn me down that 's me lot . |
| 5 | ‘ He said , ‘ I was dying for a pint so when I saw the pub I decided to land and come in . ’ ‘ |
| 6 | There 's supposed to be six I think three at each side and then there 's some feelers and things knocking about a bit there . |
| 7 | Balanced against this view one might consider the limited liability offered through trading as a company so advantageous in the event of the business failing that a company is the preferred form of trading . |
| 8 | He insisted the scheme was not in tatters and the main effect of the banks ' decision would be to make applying for a loan less convenient for students . |
| 9 | ‘ I would also state my belief that in relation to Class AA , our parent company has behaved entirely properly ; the process of applying for a patent necessarily entails wide publication and ample opportunity for opposition . |
| 10 | It was realised ( admittedly in connection with problems over legal aid payments , rather than dissolution of partnerships ) that difficulty might ensue where a solicitor continued to practise after applying for a renewal only to have his application eventually rejected . |
| 11 | Another group went to talk to the ‘ Educated Youth ’ ( i.e. young people who after leaving school in the city go to work in the commune and learn from the peasants ) — after 2 or more years in the country , a few of them may get the chance for further training or education before they are assigned to their jobs ( there is no such thing as applying for a job here ) . |
| 12 | A VETERAN police inspector caught drink driving after a day out with friends has quit the force , a court was told yesterday . |
| 13 | The troops reluctantly went to their beds , among them a number who had never been to Pathfinders before , and others who were returning after a time away . |
| 14 | We were on dipped-beam ; the instruments glowed orange in front of the delicious , straight-armed , black-skirted , Doc-shoed , crop-blonde , purse-lipped Verity ; my angelic bird of paradise , driving like a bat out of hell . |
| 15 | Clare , walking with a stick now , though still in braces , had come to London to lend me moral support — Father , of course , could n't just leave his job at will . |
| 16 | ‘ When walking with a lady always walk on the outside of the pavement . ’ |
| 17 | Many RP speakers use in a similar way to link words ending with a vowel even when there is no ‘ justification ’ from the spelling , as in : ‘ Formula A ’ ‘ Australia all out ’ ‘ media event ’ This has been called intrusive ; some English speakers and teachers still regard this as incorrect or sub-standard pronunciation , but it is undoubtedly widespread . |
| 18 | repeat twice more , ending with a hazelnut round on top . |
| 19 | The nature of the two eyes of the Fate of the discworld was this : that while at a mere glance they were simply dark , a closer look would reveal — too late ! — that they were but holes opening onto a blackness so remote , so deep that the watcher would feel himself inexorably drawn into the twin pools on infinite night and their terrible , wheeling stars … |
| 20 | The first is that the possibility of a revolution occurring in a country where capitalism was poorly developed made him aware of the problem of setting up too rigid a sequence for human evolution . |
| 21 | ‘ I ? ’ she said , drawing back slightly into her crystalline , black-and-white reserve , and becoming in a breath notably more French . |
| 22 | The canisters were landing in a cornfield about half-a-mile away . |
| 23 | Was it really happening in a world where women can be lawyers , prime minister , soldiers or just about anything ? |
| 24 | He finished painting in a silence so icy she could almost feel its frosty fingers on her skin , then climbed down the ladder and handed her the paintbrush . |
| 25 | One felt that men had become brutalised by the preoccupation of not leaving their company and also not delaying in a place where death was raining down . |
| 26 | He was returning from a night out celebrating his first wage packet after nine months on the dole when he was set upon at Didcot Parkway Railway Station . |
| 27 | Alison was returning from a night out with boyfriend Paul Reany , from Hemlington , Middlesbrough , and another friend , near the university when she was apparently shot from a passing car . |
| 28 | Uncle Alfred , returning from a ramble up-river to fetch food , heard the commotion and hurried home as quickly as possible . |
| 29 | There was also speculation that the delay was caused by Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley because she wanted to launch it after returning from a trip abroad . |
| 30 | HOMER Scott , an Ulsterman who trains in the Irish Republic , came home to Kildare from Cheltenham a fortnight ago with the air of a man returning from a job well done . |