Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reports seeing one crop of heavy land barley harvested last weekend . |
| 2 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman 's remarks about consultants getting everyone to attend between 9 o'clock and 10 o'clock , for example , and then keeping them waiting . |
| 3 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 4 | The British Council abroad is bent on getting everything connected with British education and culture under its tyrannical control , and outsiders like myself who found their own positions without passing through the old-boy network and the rigid screening system of the Council were always given a hard time . |
| 5 | fall ou fall out , not getting anything done at all . |
| 6 | Furthermore , Engels argues , marriage and the family — these ideas which Victorians thought of as peculiarly linked with private life and as having nothing to do with political and economic life — are in reality intimately associated with it . |
| 7 | I 'm having nothing to do with casual callers . |
| 8 | ‘ Though it be not sense , as having nothing to do with external objects , yet it is very like it , and might properly enough be called internal sense ’ . |
| 9 | But for the young , it is rather a question of the scales falling from their eyes , and having nothing to believe in any more . |
| 10 | I 'm not having owt to do with this ! |
| 11 | As such , he saw Darwinian theory as having something to say to social scientists , even though he also emphasised that there is a ‘ cultural ’ level specifically associated with conceptualising human beings . |
| 12 | Well , I said to her , told her about not having nowt to eat from that Wednesday morning , er Wednesday dinner time , till Thursday when they went |
| 13 | He felt he was implementing something conceived by clever brains . |
| 14 | He was now faced with a shot of about 230 yards , with the prospect of dropping one shot at best , but possibly two . |
| 15 | You must also tell us if you know of any impending prosecution , Coroners Inquest or Fatal Accident Inquiry involving anyone insured by this policy . |
| 16 | You must also tell us if you know about any impending prosecution , Coroners Inquest or Fatal Accident Inquiry involving anyone insured by this policy . |
| 17 | You must also tell us if you know about any impending prosecution , Coroners Inquest or Fatal Accident Inquiry involving anyone insured by this policy . |
| 18 | You must also tell us if you know about any impending prosecution , = Coroners Inquest or Fatal Accident Inquiry involving anyone insured by this policy . |
| 19 | You must also tell us if you know about any impending prosecution , Coroners Inquest or Fatal Accident Inquiry involving anyone insured by this policy . |
| 20 | And the idea of making everyone look like each other is a communist idea , yes ? |
| 21 | When printed out , the colours will show as different grey patterns and you can copy these row for row on to a card , making one row for each colour in the normal way . |
| 22 | And he said i I agree with what you say , it 's not the principle of , of making everybody wait like that . |
| 23 | You must do this very thoroughly , as the picture will not be as tightly secured against the glass if it only has a free-standing photograph frame backing as opposed to the hardboard backing one uses for normal pictures . |