Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as defending her Redcar seat , Dr Mowlam is Labour spokesperson on city and corporate affairs necessitating much shuttling between Cleveland and London . |
| 2 | The footsteps which were heard passing in the alleyway were of men walking not running in panic . |
| 3 | He tossed his horse 's reins to a groom and went storming off looking for Dacourt . |
| 4 | Bennetts came here on holiday from New Zealand 20 years ago and never returned , ending up working for McLaren boss Ron Dennis until he founded WSR 10 years ago . |
| 5 | These have proved to be such a success that there is now a virtual two month long waiting list at Tyseley with booking now stretching into April next year . |
| 6 | You may well be wearing 30 's clothes and I suppose you could start wandering around feeling like Gatsby , but for a man who is a very fine actor and mime artiste , and who learned from Lindsay Kemp way before I met him everything about it being a show off stage and on , I do n't really think there 's too much relevance . ’ |
| 7 | Stay with that a minute , erm , erm , I mean I would n't have thought we were in a position to give an assurance that er erm , that that no other complaints which appear to be outside the local ombu ombudsman 's restriction will be dealt with by support staff , I mean I should think we 're continuing looking continually looking for ways of dealing with complaints at the most efficient and effective way , and if that |
| 8 | That is one point of view ; another is that these future Nobel laureates may in fact earn their prizes by bringing more supercomputing to science , and thus moving more of science into cyberspace . |
| 9 | The facts — that Chrissie has been caught taking food home , the higher than average food costs , etc. — show that things have n't been going entirely according to plan , but what are the causes ? |
| 10 | Mark : I certainly found quite a distinct difference between actually going out looking for sex , which I often associated with going to discos and , on the other hand , just making friendships which happened in a much more natural and less forced way . |
| 11 | You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into . |
| 12 | A very mysterious , nasty record , and one that asks whether we 're being used by the powers-that-be by going out raving on E every night instead of overthrowing the rich . |
| 13 | You might go up there and er I du n no you what 's what 's a good way of getting myself seen when I 'm going out running at night and things like that you know and they 'll give you advice and they 'll say well there 's this you can use or that |
| 14 | So everything 's going really according to plan . |
| 15 | It seemed like the right reaction as well , because everyone thought we were ambient intellectuals going around posing in mirrors and stuff . ’ |
| 16 | Furthermore , says Ribas , ‘ We do n't want to spend 30 years , or even six years , going around knocking on doors to build a business . |
| 17 | He is chancellor of Stirling University and spends a lot of time going around lecturing at universities and schools . |
| 18 | We do n't want Americans to think we are n't hospitable , and besides , she 's bound to be lying there thinking of sex , poor little thing , and it 'll be all wet and hairy , and so deliciously — ’ |
| 19 | I was lying there thinking about fellatio at the time . |
| 20 | A little old woman , clearly upset , was going about tugging at people 's sleeves and pointing to the figures . |
| 21 | with a pair of binoculars , turning round looking for planes coming in |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't realise I 'd be going round treading on people 's corns to get at the truth ! ’ |
| 23 | Well that 's why Doug 's going round asking about Sunday is it ? |
| 24 | Therefore , by the mid-1970s , Cramlington was proceeding much according to plan , with a number of firms being attracted to the area and the consequent job creation being associated with extensive housing developments by both the private and , public sectors . |
| 25 | In all this discussion , whether I am moving round talking to pairs of students at work or talking to the whole group , I see my role as provoking thought and reflection , not as telling students what to think or do . |
| 26 | You 'd just be coming in shouting at people , like Mrs Healy does over in the hotel . ’ |
| 27 | Annunciata , coming in singing with coffee , was reprimanded for causing a headache to begin on that instant and Wilson could not help feeling triumphant . |
| 28 | After battling through to the end of your course in London , and coming home looking like death warmed up — ’ |
| 29 | No matter how much Norse manure you splatter on to them , they 've a habit of coming up smelling of roses . |
| 30 | So now he 's giving up busking in Gloucester . |