Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now — are you going on looking for more ? ’ |
| 2 | Instead of which it seems to be going on and on and I 'm finding myself going round playing at stupid amateur detectives . |
| 3 | To give more effective stripping , 3M has designed a special Stripping Tool which , unlike wire wool , will not stain wood with rust spots , while also speeding up stripping on flat surfaces . |
| 4 | She got out of bed too early , so the story goes , because there was so much washing piling up belonging to all the family , as well as me . |
| 5 | All very worrying , especially since the only sleep I lost in the real Gulf War was in staying up listening to late-night doomsday discussions on Channel 4 . |
| 6 | Speculation — and that 's all it is — says maybe it 's the scalability of the software that 's holding back going to all twenty engines : Sun promises system software will improve by release date . |
| 7 | But I did n't make any hard and fast decisions about giving up painting at all . |
| 8 | If everyone could look after their own , there would be far fewer people like social workers running around looking after other people 's own . |
| 9 | Langbaurgh Constituency Labour Party is calling on Labour councils to unite against moves towards super regional police forces and any suggestion of handing over policing to private security firms . |
| 10 | Chasing round going like that . |
| 11 | It is an important innovation in Hungarian law that a one-man company may be created , and according to the ministerial reasons it was introduced in order to allow the foundation of one-man companies by state enterprises so that they might have the advantage of carrying on trading with limited liability . |
| 12 | ‘ She 's sitting down talking to those two men . ’ |
| 13 | There were dozens of people sitting around waiting for other people . |
| 14 | No point at all sitting round looking at each other . |