Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why else should he be seeking to eliminate her past to his own advantage ? |
| 2 | ‘ Basically , we are looking to discuss it further with Foinavon and that will be the recommendation we will be putting to the general committee of the club . ’ |
| 3 | I am writing to offer you formally on behalf of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland , an appointment as a with the Department of of the Library . |
| 4 | ( 183 ) But she admired even more what came later ; how after she had ceased wanting to blot him entirely from her mind , to make him not to be , they had found that they could after all talk good sense and kindness to each other . |
| 5 | This last quality was , however , manifest in his second ( and best ) film , Le Coeur Battant ( 1961 ) , a witty and enchanting comedy about a couple in a small seaside resort — she ( Francoise Brion ) waiting for her lover to arrive and he ( Jean-Louis Trintignant ) gradually falling in love with her but refusing to admit it even to himself . |
| 6 | Although it will be close to midnight before the game ends , the trains of Boston 's admirable underground , the T , will be waiting to carry us away in orderly and good natured hordes . |
| 7 | it was the cream of the milk , well you used to like it , well sort of , some people make it with water , that 's why I made it all milk , are you going to try it again with water ? and just a drop of milk on top |
| 8 | ‘ They 're not going to shoot you just for trying . |
| 9 | She had been going to set it loose in case it got too tame to fend for itself . |
| 10 | Returning to London , and influenced by Ruskin and Octavia Hill , she went to work as a volunteer at a number of slum-housing projects around Marylebone , where her contributions ranged from carpentry to moral tutoring and advising the poor of the district on careers , and attempting to lead them away from the evils of alcohol . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 12 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 13 | It looked as though the Americans were going to sweep us aside in the early part of the afternoon at one point we had lost the match and were down in eight and up in only one . |
| 14 | I 'm going to fit it neatly into the neck of the one of the bottles . |
| 15 | Are you going to do it again for the seventy fifth ? |
| 16 | Well he phoned me last night and he 's going to phone me again on Sunday afternoon , we get on so well , Brenda I can just the imagine the pair of us tucked up into a four foot bed ! |
| 17 | Some earlier teams collecting wild cocoa had lost 50 per cent or more of their material by attempting to send it directly to distant breeding centres ; our intention was to bring the collections back to a local base for propagation and planting . |
| 18 | She looked elegant , yet slightly intimidating , her long legs in over-the-knee black suede boots as she followed Ace down to where the helicopter was waiting to fly them away from all their guests and the ubiquitous Press . |
| 19 | How are we going to keep him away from our tree ? |
| 20 | ‘ Are you going to keep me here on the doorstep ? ’ |
| 21 | If we 're going to keep it there on the patio , . |
| 22 | But it was obvious that giving way , by either yelling or dissolving into tears , was n't going to get her anywhere in this awful place . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's going to get him right on his roses . |
| 24 | Max said there 'd have been buckets of blood , and if someone 's going to get it all over a suit , or a dress … |
| 25 | ‘ You can depend on that ! ’ , he added , ‘ Nobody is going to get us away from this place again . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Single 50p coins and £1 coins in the collection plate are not going to get us anywhere near what we need for the life of today 's Church . ’ |
| 27 | Dalgliesh passed through the grille door into the body of the church , turning to close it gently behind him . |
| 28 | Are they going to spend it suddenly in er two years time , or are they expecting not to be around in two years time ? |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going to Steve now and I 'm going to take him away from all this . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm going to take it away on holiday . ’ |