Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him . |
| 2 | Commissioner of the Garda Siochana for little more than two years in the 1970s , he presided over a force struggling to cope with a surge in urban crime and the spillover violence of the IRA campaign in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | Representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have been struggling to cope with the flood of refugees and have appealed to the international community to step up relief . |
| 4 | Farmers are struggling to cope with an invasion of slugs . |
| 5 | toilet training and , well not toilet training but reminding to go to the toilet , look at his hat did you read in the paper that George Best has had to spend half of his testimonial money on debts |
| 6 | He spent the entire morning with his legs crossed , not daring to go to the loo in case one of his colleagues was in there at the same time and came to the wrong conclusion . ’ |
| 7 | He accused them of failing to face up to the implications of the voters ' choice should this happen , and of preferring to hide from the truth . |
| 8 | " Did the service men come ? " asked Clara , feeling some word required of her , and yet not daring to comment upon the story 's true import . |
| 9 | I have not followed international football for well over twenty years , preferring to concentrate on the bread and butter of non-League soccer , so I have no idea what Alf Ramsey thinks . |
| 10 | The Government 's recent decision to allow industrial tribunals to hear claims relating to breach of the employment contract may , however , bring this trend to a halt . |
| 11 | Bren was dying to go to the pub . |
| 12 | I even went , I was dying to go to the toilet so I thought oh I 'll go down to the big er and I had no toilet paper so I 'll go down to the big toilets and shower rooms . |
| 13 | ‘ And how did she know he was dying to go to the match ? ’ |
| 14 | There is not point arranging to play squash if you dislike the game , or vowing to go for a jog each day , if you hate running . |
| 15 | They were for the entertainment of the workers in their lunch break er , it was n't really much of a job but er , I kept applying to go onto the floor to actually work on the aircraft but they , they would n't sort of er , I was needed too much in the receiving departments so in the end I left . |
| 16 | The disk is small and ill-defined with the arms appearing to continue to the middle of the disk . |
| 17 | This family is characterised by the disk being ill-defined or constricted with the arms appearing to continue to the centre of the disk in some genera ; the disk may be covered with skin or a dense coating of granules ; the long and narrow radial shields ; the reduced papillae on the jaw with only the apical papillae well developed and the oral papillae small , like enlarged granules ; the genital slits situated vertically on the sides of the disk ; the arms long and covered with skin or granules . |
| 18 | Similarly , in an effort to reach an accommodation with women trade unionists , the NUSEC rejected the traditional nineteenth-century feminist opposition to protective legislation , pledging to work for the extension of such legislation to men rather than opposing it for women . |
| 19 | " We 'd easily get the half-five bus , " Timothy said , offering his gums again , blocking their passage and the passage of two elderly women who were endeavouring to pass into the foyer . |
| 20 | Their role was to clear the Channel of the Dutch and English fleets , before returning to escort across the invasion army in its transports . |
| 21 | The waitress , feeling like she has done her best , storms off with tears brimming to talk to the manager . |
| 22 | Glamis Castle is most famous for its association with Macbeth , and Shakespeare 's hero is said to still bemoan the murder of King Duncan , appearing to walk on the roof , taking a route known as The Mad Earl 's Walk . |
| 23 | He repeated the Comintern formula that " the united front can only be built up from below , by the workers themselves , not as a corrupt bargain of the reformist leaders and disorganisers of the struggle endeavouring to buy off the criticism of the revolutionaries , but as the solid class front of the workers " . |
| 24 | So at this moment it 's as well to look at your present experience and see how you can help yourself to extend it , before applying to audition at a drama school . |
| 25 | Sometimes his route to the nearest safe place involved scrambling over loose rock , or entailed ladder climbing to escape from a stope , with his only source of light a guttering candle held in the hand , or stuck to his hat with a blob of clay . |
| 26 | Today , Sartre 's voluntarism is to some extent returning to favour as the result of a desire to retrieve the categories of agency and the subject , which goes together with the wish to get out of the apparently totalizing systems of Adorno , Althusser or Foucault . |
| 27 | There was a compact flowered sofa in one corner , and she sat on it , trying to find something absorbing to do in a hotel room that was deprived of any literature apart from the hotel menu and some self-congratulatory stuff about the hotel itself . |
| 28 | By the time they walk down the street , just happening to bump into the gang of boys , they have got it all worked out . |
| 29 | The social composition of admitted solicitors is remarkably similar to the profile of law students , but the socialization process involved in qualifying to practise at the Bar dramatically increases the preponderance of persons from professional and managerial backgrounds . |
| 30 | From the purchasers ' point of view , auctions can also be attractive — if slightly nerve-racking as you wait for bidding to start for the house of your dreams . |