Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [noun sg] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | window and I sort of pinged the cat 's tray , you know , if I shut the door and walked back in and hid the paint on the side , and on a couple of occasions he was painting that window and suddenly this cat appeared outside |
| 2 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 3 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 4 | B A er had a very clear dominance at Heathrow , erm it was a dominance that erm has effectively been erm given to them on a plate by the government , or successive governments over the last fifty years , erm and which in effect saw off you know , Laker , B Cal , Dan Air , Air Europe , erm and er and er and er it 's it 's them having that dominance and then being able to erm er effectively misuse that dominance by er by using the dom the dominance on say the routes which say Virgin Atlantic do n't fly to er actually damage Virgin on on on the routes that erm that we do fly . |
| 5 | She really did look stunning that day and very composed , not showing any nerves although she was slightly pale . |
| 6 | The secret of successful research is to identify clearly the " profit " goal you are trying to achieve and then research all the options for achieving that goal as well as all the factors affecting its achievement . |
| 7 | But then it would have to face up to the fact that , by comparison with much of the rest of the world , it would grow steadily poorer with no chance of arresting that trend until well into the next century . |
| 8 | ‘ You just finishin' that drink and then pushin' off , Mister ? ’ |
| 9 | I was just thinking that way as well . |
| 10 | Given that he may have fallen victim of an essentialist fallacy , is he not right in asserting that marriage as always understood is a relationship involving a man and a woman , commonly so defined ? |
| 11 | However , I shall desist from following that course and merely state that the co-ordinated package of works in the Bill will make King 's Cross a first-class interchange between international trains and inter-city services from the east midlands , the north and Scotland , as well as to and from Thameslink and London Underground services . |
| 12 | It should also be noted that in granting permission for a particular use a local planning authority may impose conditions restricting that use and thus prevent the changes in use allowed by the Order . |
| 13 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 14 | Great praise has been given to Mr. Baker , the United States Secretary of State , for arranging that conference and so fulfilling the commitment that he gave at the time of the Gulf war , when he said that he and President Bush would do all that they could to bring the parties to the negotiating table . |
| 15 | To understand brain and behaviour means rejecting that dichotomy and instead trying to interpret the intertwined dialectic of specificity and plasticity . |