Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Harris , who has chaired the board since 1990 and is a non-executive member of the South West Thames Regional Health Authority , said he was stepping down to allow a review of the accountability of the service . |
| 2 | erm And I think really most citizens , and I daresay , a number of the scholars in the university too , were rather more interested in keeping their heads down , and erm just trying to keep out of it , and where the citizens were concerned , keeping on earning a living . |
| 3 | She trailed off dismally , knowing that Monica was not capable of flinging up a window in an empty house and climbing in to have a look , and that , very likely , her husband was the same . |
| 4 | A good example of a swift corrective action being put in place with people from a variety of functions co-ordinating rapidly to help a customer solve his problem . |
| 5 | Sailors returning home stuck a pineapple or two on their gateposts to tell the community they were back and welcomed visitors . |
| 6 | In 1962 he was driving home following a drinking session to ease the tensions of recording a TV play , Hedda Gabler , when he crashed into some roadworks . |
| 7 | Where , then , did and do the remainder , the ‘ others ’ fit : — ‘ on the edge ’ ; in some buffer zone between categories ; or in a hybrid form , grappling both to make a space and to find a name : Fibre Art — Who Are you ? ’ talks of this hybrid form as an ‘ undecidable ’ ( Derrida ) , ‘ something that seems to belong to one genre , but overshoots its borders and seems no less at home in another … |
| 8 | When John hung a cupboard on small metal brackets , she insisted on climbing up to paint a trompe l'oeil over the brackets as camouflage . |
| 9 | So we got there and he said right okay you 're the press chappy he 's right I 've put your press people over there so while respect Lieutenant Commander that really wo n't do because everything including the Band of the Royal Marines is between them and the Princess Royal so we argued about this and the compromise eventually was that that everybody would have to stay there until the ceremony started and then we could bring the stills photographers round to the end and up to one side where it was all happening mainly to get a picture of his wife cutting the cake . |
| 10 | The article says that the game Dying High has a bug in it , which simply is n't true . |
| 11 | Before explaining how to tackle a course race it is worth looking at what makes one sailor go faster than another . |
| 12 | This month I 'm tackling where to buy a computer and the questions you need to ask in order to guarantee a good level of after sales support . |
| 13 | Here is conscientious Boris Nikolayevich , completing his graduate dissertation in one month rather than the usual five and then refusing the automatic promotion for which this would normally have qualified him , resolving instead to spend a year laying bricks , mixing concrete and becoming one of the boys . |
| 14 | Last week she was out on 'er doorstep threatenin' ter chuck a pail o' water over a couple o' Galloway 's carmen . |
| 15 | Staging systematically included a bone marrow biopsy , chest and abdominal computed tomography , oropharyngolarynx examination , and liver function tests . |
| 16 | As it turned out she was in the bath when she heard the sounds of a car pulling up outside , swiftly followed by tapping on the door , and she jumped quickly from the water , pausing only to belt a towelling robe about her waist . |
| 17 | Pausing only to send a page running to fetch her maid , fitzAlan marched her all the way to the ladies ' solar , deliberately avoiding the crowded hall . |
| 18 | In 1989 , only 7.8% of pensioners who were mainly dependent on state pensions and living alone had a car . |
| 19 | We need to hear from the local churches , from the district councils what 's going on wha what the issues that concern you are so let's as well the ones that you see downstairs , we may already be addressing so have a look down there have a look at the , the information but if there are any issues you feel we ought to be addressing then please let us know so that we can put them on our agenda . |
| 20 | There now exists a plethora of local economic development initiatives being implemented by local authorities and enterprise agencies throughout the UK seeking broadly to provide a range of business support mechanisms , which derive their justification somewhat confusingly from both a welfare and economic rationale pitched at the level of the local economy . |
| 21 | The view of the authors is that these ideas need developing further to represent a document as a complex data object holding information in the form of structured data . |
| 22 | Clutchless selection by switch or lever keeps the outfit rolling , while de-clutching usually means a stop if load is heavy , eg in draught work . |
| 23 | But the picking up strikes a chord and going through the motions always works . |
| 24 | I had been saving up to buy a cooker and fridge and Brian 's mum and dad gave us some of the furniture . |
| 25 | Paula was already studying the map , looking up to check a sign . |
| 26 | Dressing often becomes a battle at this time , as you try to hurry the process by helping where help is n't wanted and she becomes more and more frustrated when her leg goes in the wrong hole or the jumper ends up back to front . |
| 27 | At the Irving Plaza , a gaggle of girls are wandering around conducting a poll . |
| 28 | Its five books re-tell and overlap the ancient stories of how God created Man and after generations of wandering around living a life which makes Wild West movies look tame , there was captivity in Egypt and then liberation to the Promised Land . |
| 29 | This means that the cellular mechanisms of , say , remembering a telephone number and remembering how to drive a car would n't differ — it would just be that different cells , connected up in different ways with other parts of the brain , are involved . |
| 30 | He 's a man who erm is qualified in the field of computer sciences and if your Lordship will hear has worked throughout his life in the fields of computers , banking and er in March of nineteen eighty five he left employment with a company known as Data Logic Limited where he had been employed as a banking consultant and decided at that stage er on a change of career erm and he was looking principally to acquire a wine bar , restaurant , country house hotel , something of that nature and er you will hear that after some early disappointments in the earlier part of nineteen eighty five when deals that er were on the horizon for premises in Oxfordshire and then in Chichester erm in early September the plaintiffs er saw and liked the wine bar in and offered the price of , the asking price of seventy five thousand pounds with stock er which was accepted . |