Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rich wives , with rich husbands , simply amusing themselves twice a week . |
| 2 | ‘ Not a lot to do in Vienna at present , and this Beethoven seems to be building himself quite a reputation . ’ |
| 3 | Each such pupil also receives a personalised letter reminding them of their entitlement to education and training , and guaranteeing them both an interview with an officer of the Careers Service and an offer of a place on a training scheme , in a job or in continued education . |
| 4 | Lastly , put some dry leaves and grasses into the box , filling it about a quarter full . |
| 5 | i i perhaps in terms of if you think of it in terms of like the employer of the day , Well we 've paid an external trainer to come along , it 's actually costing us quite a lot of money . |
| 6 | You know , and you , you then have that sheet , and how much is my time worth , and how much is his time worth , or her time worth , and you can say , you know , these interruptions are actually costing us quite a lot of month . |
| 7 | I often notice him looking at me and paying me rather a lot of compliments . |
| 8 | The thought of inserting the diaphragm was worrying me quite a bit . |
| 9 | Well it 's low this is lower cost than what we 're doing currently , we 're giving away , we 're getting nothing only a cost of of twenty five quid on the seat . |
| 10 | Moving her just a fraction away , his eyes once more holding hers captive , he added , ‘ So is n't it fortunate that I know you for the cheat you are ? ’ |
| 11 | Now spreading it over a year means that the project administration jumps dramatically , and there 's about four , five thousand pounds ' worth in there . |
| 12 | You know when Beecham was conducting it once a trumpeter came in early in one of the big silences : the kind of catastrophe you can do nothing about . |
| 13 | As opposed to giving them possibly a ball bearing . |
| 14 | The car is generally occupied by an idiot or two gazing strictly ahead either with expressions that lead you to think that they are convinced they are doing everyone else a favour , or that they are only sitting down because they have insufficient brain to walk and chew gum at the same time . |
| 15 | They are also fogged by the dumb idea that we are just doing someone else a favour . |
| 16 | giving it just a couple more minutes and if he does n't come |
| 17 | He was still doing it over an hour later , frantically trying to remember everything and wishing he had somewhere to write it all down , when there was a sound of feet running up the stairs . |
| 18 | ‘ It came to the stage when I was married to Michael but seeing him once a week , ’ said Gabrielle . |
| 19 | Everyone benefited from knowing them so a spot of poaching was not held against them . |
| 20 | Naturally , Reynard started there , drew the first blank , which did n't disconcert him ( he would have been disappointed by an easy discovery anyway ) and composed himself to delve deeper , perhaps taking it backwards a month at a time , beginning with Malamute 's employment with Club Eleusis . |
| 21 | Find I 'm down to using it twice a week now . |
| 22 | I , I made them I started making them quite a while ago . |
| 23 | Recently I have noticed my fiancé 's brother is showing me rather a lot of attention . |
| 24 | Although in the early days Derek was happy to drive me around and did n't even charge me for the petrol , pretty soon our visits here and there grew so frequent and far afield that he was finding himself quite a bit out of pocket . |
| 25 | It was on the twenty second , we 're putting it forward a week , |
| 26 | He successfully invaded Sudan to the south in 1820 , making it effectively a colony , and in some eyes even a part of Egypt . |
| 27 | This weakness left Egypt an easy prey for the rising Ottoman empire that seized the country in 1517 , making it then a province of Istanbul and that loosely structured empire that was to dominate the Middle East until 1918 . |
| 28 | It is a picture which belongs as much to the world of Beatrix Potter ( Major Connolly would no doubt have appreciated the coincidental pun ) as to that of the military gentleman from Bath , making it doubly an insult that the mass-produced pastes and sandwich spreads of the factories should go by the honourable names of potted meat , potted ham , tongue , lobster , salmon , shrimp and the rest . |
| 29 | I 'm sorry , you have been subsidizing me rather a lot lately . ’ |
| 30 | He was surprised to see Mrs Brocklebank and slightly more surprised to see Ben Brocklebank whom he had never absolutely believed in before , thinking him more an excuse than a man , someone Mrs B. sheltered behind when it suited her not to do something . |