Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a fortnight drying out , the sheaves will be stacked in a rick ready for thrashing to separate out the grain . |
| 2 | How wonderful , I thought , if today 's humans could find themselves on the shores of England seeing and getting mixed up with Caesar 's army in 54 BC , landing to take over the country ; be in burning Rome as Nero fiddled ; get involved in Europe 's tragic thirty years war , etc. , etc . |
| 3 | She said they were taken off waiting list after applying to take over the tenancy at Heydean Road in 1954 . |
| 4 | They were taken off after applying to take over the tenancy at Heydean Road in 1954 . |
| 5 | Here , too , though we are not looking to carve up the territory between us a degree of competition never does any harm we should at least be getting together to think out how best to collaborate in the future . |
| 6 | Further to our meeting last Friday , I am writing to set out the advice and assistance that we are able to provide in connection with the intended sale of Older Business Limited . |
| 7 | In connection with the role you have asked me to undertake in the dispute between Mr D Smith and the other directors of and shareholders in Smith & Co Limited , I am writing to set out the nature of the responsibilities which you wish me to perform . |
| 8 | On December 12th Mr Vicari called for an extraordinary general meeting to clear up the uncertainty over the firm 's future . |
| 9 | The West German leader , far from seeking to slow down the process leading to monetary union , said the treaty revision should be agreed by the end of 1991 and put into force by the time the EC single market was completed at the end of 1992 . |
| 10 | The reason for this is that as the core begins to saturate , the voltage available for saturation falls , tending to slow down the approach to saturation . |
| 11 | CAMERA-shy ministers avoided photographers yesterday as they gathered for a crucial Cabinet meeting to thrash out the Government 's public spending plans for the coming financial year . |
| 12 | The Cabinet was meeting to thrash out the Government 's public spending plans for 1993/94 . |
| 13 | He 's always looking to take on the back row and his sheer physical strength is phenomenal … |
| 14 | Stamp duty suspension for properties up to £250,000 has certainly encouraged householders wanting to move up the housing ladder to start looking again . |
| 15 | Established firms are tending to scoop up the talent in the market which is still in second-tier houses — without which they will not survive . |
| 16 | To get maximum benefit in making your diet easy , speedy and healthy , obtain your dietary fibre from a wide range of cereal , fruit and vegetable foods rather than seeking to make up the total from just one or two very fibre-rich foods . |
| 17 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |
| 18 | It has even been held that refusing to hand over the registration book of the plaintiff 's car amounts to conversion of the car since the absence of the book makes it difficult to deal with the car . |
| 19 | Scientists have rather a bad press in these lists , as well as tending to drag down the market value of their places of study , or so it seems to the editors . |
| 20 | Thus , governments are endlessly seeking to shore up the erosion of the national idea which a world economy inflicts upon them . |
| 21 | Islington 's provision is better than most , yet the Director of Social Services , John Rea Price , feels Islington has been penalised for attempting to carry out the Government 's own directives on community care . |
| 22 | What I 'm going to do is to examine now I 'm going to go up the collar bone first over the shoulder pad , T-shirt with a shoulder pad . |
| 23 | Unless the bank see new management , Virginia , the company your grandparents established is rapidly going to go down the pan — ’ |
| 24 | Yes I am the outcome of it all is that she 's waiting on the wall , getting piles and I 'm going to go down the shop with her . |
| 25 | Hold on tight now — I 'm going to whip up the horse . |
| 26 | Novotna had looked well in control , always seeming to guess correctly whether Seles was going to hit down the line or cross-court . |
| 27 | Yes yes Are you going to slacken down the dancing a bit when she 's in secondary school ? |
| 28 | ‘ We are very worried someone is going to fall down the cliff or slip off the ship and break something . |
| 29 | It could be on the other side of the island or asleep or waiting to leap out the water and swallow them whole . |
| 30 | " And I suppose you 're going to slip out the kitchen door , " she continued , " which you might be able to do if you time it right and both Mrs James and Mr Gerard are distracted but how are you going to bet back in ? " |