Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be no doubt about that , the public taste was already showing signs of wanting something else on stage . |
| 2 | There is a particularly cold-blooded tycoon lurking in Coopers & Lybrand 's head office — Ian Brummer , a ‘ ruthless ’ computer manager , cleaned up at the first City Monopoly Challenge , virtually bankrupting everyone else in sight . |
| 3 | I was experiencing something very like despair , which was not altogether relieved when he turned me towards him and said , " I 'd love you if you were as bald as a coot . |
| 4 | Those people who 've been holding off buying anything just in case prices drop still further could now find they 've missed the boat . |
| 5 | He seemed to recall some casual acquaintance saying something recently about market gardening . |
| 6 | However , most sufferers from addictive disease are nonetheless in full employment and often ( in order to protect the supply of money for alcohol or drugs ) they cling desperately to that employment while progressively losing everything else of value in their lives . |
| 7 | One of his first papers was called the neuro psychoses of defence , and defence meant fending something away from consciousness , what he later called repression . |
| 8 | Erm have you been doing anything else at work |
| 9 | ‘ But at the moment you 're drinking somebody else into house and home , ’ argued Werewolf . |
| 10 | We are debating everything else in advance of the general election but not Northern Ireland , so will he answer two questions ? |
| 11 | Throughout the Ottoman world , centuries of arbitrary and frequently oppressive rule reinforced age-old peasant tendencies towards looking to the clan as the mainstay of life and regarding everybody outside with suspicion and hostility . |
| 12 | He forbore to add that Poll might have earned a few more blows as the result of Sally-Anne 's intervention , to prevent her from involving anyone else in future . |
| 13 | As I would disagree with the notion that we are taking anything away from society , the notion of ‘ putting something back ’ may sound misplaced . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most useful distinction is to think of other disciplines as studying something else through discourse ; whereas discourse analysis has discourse as its prime object of study , and though it may take excursions into many different fields , must always be careful to return to the main concern . |
| 15 | She went on to her worries about Jeetinder who still was n't bringing anything home from school . |
| 16 | ‘ Not much of a rest for them in here , ’ I remarked , as a mortar bomb burst close by in the orchard , causing the barn to shake a load of debris from the rafters , covering everyone below in pigeon and probably hen shit . |
| 17 | At some level of expenditure it presumably becomes inequitable for a disabled person to expect public support for the more expensive domiciliary care if this means depriving someone else of care of any sort . |