Example sentences of "[vb infin] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But in many circuits , significant source and load resistances will need factoring out from the upper and lower arm values respectively ( and scaled pro-rata ) , otherwise the implied accuracy will be false ) .
2 ( He says ( Perople like their creature comforts and will enjoy coming back to the hotel )
3 All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined .
4 She does n't fancy turning up to the supermarket in it !
5 They had gone into the largest of the rock shelters , one which he himself used when he felt very bold and did not mind looking out over the vacancy of the Waste .
6 And it was very dark , but I had to go up every night , and I did n't like going up in the dark . ’
7 I did n't like going out into the yard when she was there . ’
8 he just do n't like going down to the deep end
9 I do n't remember waking up with the blinding realization that it was time to go : it was more like a very gradual awareness that there simply was n't an alternative .
10 When she got there she found that it was rather full , but being a regular churchgoer she did not mind going up to the front where there were plenty of empty pews .
11 ‘ I did n't mind moving out of the limelight .
12 ‘ Do you mind getting out of the way while I serve the lady , ’ he stormed .
13 Natural gas supplies will begin running down in the twenty-first century .
14 Right , this will keep coming up throughout the er , products .
15 Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big .
16 This was the earliest technology in which power was derived from sources other than animal muscles and the output was so obviously superior that men did not mind putting up with the inconvenience of machines which were uncomfortable or awkward to use .
17 It was agreed by Mrs Buckingham , who had always resisted the false belief about the pain in her daughter 's back , that Harriet should stop lying around on the hall seat and go to a school founded in the 1840S for the further education of gentlewomen .
18 ‘ But I ca n't resist looking back at the history of rock and having this addiction to the great pop music that 's been made , whether it 's T-Rex or Blondie .
19 ‘ I could try going back to the Steering Committee ’ he said ‘ and simply tell them what 's happened .
20 If you have partition walls and not much space or light you can try playing around with the walls a little .
21 We we would n't mean sticking out of the wood and saying no .
22 I wo n't go banging on about the open fireplace again , but to my mind that was certainly one of them .
23 You know he would n't go wandering about in the warren .
24 To compare models such as those shown in Fig. 5a with the observations shown in Fig. 4 , it is necessary to make a transformation from what one would observe looking down on the plane to the ( l , v ) plot observed from our position in the plane .
25 I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software .
26 I did n't bother going through to the consulting room but hastened from behind the desk and crouched on the floor , studying the dog intently .
27 A and we tended to not bother going back to the client , but giving what we thought he needed , that was the culture of the regional civil engineer ,
28 He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader .
29 If you forced someone to live on nuts and lentils they 'd go roaring on to the European Court of Human Rights or something . ’
30 We ca n't just go haring off into the city like that .
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