Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He looked half determined , half afraid , as if I was a lion which he as assistant keeper was helping to escort from one zoo to another . |
2 | All I had to do was stand around pretending to pull on one end of a tug-of war rope while a load of peers pulled on the other , as Jerry stood by attracting the tabloids ' photographers . |
3 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
4 | Are we going to go for fourteen lane high way , or motorway , on the M twenty five , cos if you do , all the roads that lead from it are going to have to be fourteen lane . |
5 | I 'm sure it 's going to come off one day . |
6 | In this last programme in our short series on the boundaries of science , we 're going to look at one aspect of that most baffling and intriguing subject , the origin of life . |
7 | Make the analogy with stick-figure drawings : you take more care with something you are going to use over and over again than with something you are going to use in one lesson only . |
8 | I must emphasise that this paper is only attempting to deal with one aspect of Irigaray 's thought and will inevitably touch on issues that I wo n't have space to develop . |
9 | Because I think , what is a reasonable time , is going to vary from one product to another . |
10 | Rather than defend the arts on the grounds that they are a branch of the sciences and therefore useful , I believe we should try to start again , attempting to lay on one side both the crude criterion of utility and the assumed category distinction between science and arts , itself in fact equally crude . |
11 | Recognizing that he had no time to position his own gun , Howard ducked down , the enemy gun already beginning to flare at one end . |
12 | These developments could avoid the present difficulties of having to go from one service to another in search for a solution to each of a multitude of problems . |
13 | The firm application of market methods of control would have yielded a rise in interest rates which would have provided , albeit more slowly , the allocative mechanism rather than the banks having to discriminate against one customer in favour of another . |
14 | Nevertheless , after ten minutes or so my hand on Karen 's knee was starting to feel like one lump of meat resting on another . |
15 | Once I could have seen them off by asserting that I had no interest in such things , preferring to live from one day to the next , unfettered by possessions and responsibilities . |
16 | Learning to fix with one hand while moving the other |
17 | If the AE and AD groups differ in the ease with which they acquire the target response to A ( as they well might ) , then differences in test performance might reflect only that there was more conditioned responding to generalize in one case than in the other . |
18 | Er ours is a slightly more difficult task , I would suggest a much more difficult task , in that we 're trying to go for one certificate for the whole of the group . |
19 | Or a bed into the smallest bedroom ; — A man from British Telecom trying to use one of those stupid modern phone boxes that are just little booths exposed to the weather ideally when he 's ringing up for details of something and trying to write with one hand while trying to stop the piece of paper blowing away . |
20 | And , just as it is unnatural to spend all one 's time hopping on one leg , going about with one eye permanently closed or trying to work with one hand tied behind the back , it is unnatural to be so unbalanced . |
21 | He is trying to sell off four building plots on his estate for up to £40,000 each to raise cash for an endowment fund . |
22 | Okay , let's swap over , what I want you to remember is it 's not a conversation it 's not the try not to get into a conversation what we 're trying to do is we 're trying to stick to one person 's trying to stick to their point the other person 's trying to take them off it , okay ? |
23 | I watched a girl in front of me trying to hop from one patch to another so as to avoid ducking the two strips of leather somebody had sold her as shoes . |
24 | I just see everyone pissed , or on the Valium , tryin' to get from one day to the next . |
25 | Any fan trying to get from one end to the other would have to pass through this area and would be immediately arrested . |
26 | One trying to get in one side and the other one I think that 's what it was was n't it ? |
27 | He had decided to give up , had , indeed , spent several hours trying to think of one thing he actually liked about Elinor when , two days before the funeral , she looked up from a quiche Lorraine ( 'Billykins says it 's about all she could face ’ ) and barked : ‘ What are we going to drink ? ’ |
28 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |