Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he gave up now it would be like walking a hundred miles and then refusing to take the very last single step that would complete the journey . |
| 2 | Preparing for this Assembly involves much more than booking a few halls and sending out invitations . |
| 3 | Some day the boffins 'll make games with massive levels , innovative features , loads to see and do , much more than blasting a few planes and balloons . ’ |
| 4 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all , you had to a library and to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now presumably it 's just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 5 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 6 | Now , you managed to trick us into publishing — sort of tricked Thereza — into publishing a few numbers and now you 're going to go back and see if you can produce those as fraud . |
| 7 | Thus ( ignoring a few complications and qualifications ) , if a piece of land was worth £500 in its existing use but was sold for £3,500 with planning permission , the levy was applied to the difference , that is , £3,000 ; the levy , at the initial rate , was £1,200 . |
| 8 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 9 | Charsky catapulted into a rocky obstruction after tumbling a thousand feet or so . |
| 10 | Bows and arrows being the staple of every river vessel 's equipment , their archers shot back , with the wind , and had the satisfaction of seeing a few men and youngsters impaled . |
| 11 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 12 | The war having started in September , the RAF were accepting a few Americans but they did n't like his record . |
| 13 | Good d Good does in fact do what you said and his recommendation er for final salary schemes is er a third of the trustees should be or have the right to be er from the , the members and er er we 've in our er comments to you have er looked at a global point of view and said no not are these proposals worthy in themselves , but using a different criteria that if they had been law as Ken said earlier , would they have stopped Maxwell and a situation where a third of the trustees were er were they members er would have made no difference er cos typically in our cases there were originally about four trustees er and unfortunately for us , three of them were named Maxwell . |
| 14 | No sooner had she begun manufacturing a few defences than he demolished them with a flick of his finger . |
| 15 | You can work towards a degree or diploma over a period of years — or choose single courses lasting a few weeks or months , from an enormous list of topics ranging from childcare to computer science . |
| 16 | They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually . |
| 17 | The gift also included a shooting stick made to the King 's personal pattern , a magazine holding a hundred cartridges and a leather cartridge bag . |
| 18 | Women were just becoming visible in men 's researches : meriting a few pages or a special chapter ( Nichols and Armstrong , 1976 ) . |
| 19 | After speaking a few words that Hazel could not catch , he was evidently called inside . |
| 20 | And there 's loads of people just over er , getting a pension and getting a two pensions and tha they 're paying tax as well ! |
| 21 | It was then that I conceived the idea of getting a few fans that he had in those days to walk around the television company with placards saying Lets Be Fair To The Long Hairs , which did get press publicity , and in the end , the producer relented and he did his first TV show . ’ |
| 22 | Mom 's talking about staying a few years because someone 's offered her another show . |
| 23 | Alternatively the Goblin might survive the impact and bounce around two or three times , possibly breaking a few bones but definitely causing considerable damage to the enemy he lands on . |
| 24 | Dierdriu , thought her granddaughter , had probably gone noisily and wantonly along brightly lit corridors , brandishing torches , attended by half the Court , very likely conducting a few odds and ends of State business along the way . |
| 25 | For example , their report stated that syllabuses for pupils of lower attainment had been constructed from those designed for pupils in the top quarter of attainment by deleting a few topics and reducing the depth of treatment of others . |
| 26 | The waitress counts her tip as if reasonably expecting a million dollars for all the aggravation caused . |
| 27 | ‘ Not right now , ’ I said , looking around the crowd , acknowledging a few waves and some distant mouthings that were probably shouts . |
| 28 | ‘ We are now examining a few contradictions and will decide on the matter next week , ’ a spokesman for the Belgian cycling union said . |
| 29 | I did not realise at the time that this species ( or form ) is strongly dimorphic in size , with the female attaining a mere 4″ or so S.L. when fully grown . |
| 30 | Young Jack thought he was hard , thought that having a few blondes and getting a few legs broken made you a man , but underneath it all he was soft , a little boy . |