Example sentences of "[vb infin] [v-ing] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or if someone says What are you doing ? we can just answer Eating a mango instead of I am eating a mango because we know that I am is understood and does not have to be said . |
| 2 | He added , however , that a handful of men did commence training a year ago for the new station and have moved home . |
| 3 | They will consider paying a bit more for a premium service . |
| 4 | ‘ Part of a building ’ will include entering a building lawfully but then going into a part of the building as a trespasser , such as entering the private quarters in a public house which was entered lawfully in the first instance or going behind an unattended counter in a shop . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you remember bringing a girl here six months ago ? |
| 6 | Do you mind eating a bit later on ? |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't like eating a lot late at night , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 8 | He can understand imagining something ( a cave , perhaps ) as a dwelling ; but can not understand imagining a butterfly exactly as it is , but ugly . |
| 9 | Well I think they 're so , my own I do n't mind paying a bit more for really , because they 're so last me such a long while . |
| 10 | I would n't mind having a go now my Daily Star teams well F****d . |
| 11 | He said are you speaking to the no , no , around town he says , I do n't mind doing a bit more , you know , out and about not much about they just sat in the traffic , you know . |
| 12 | He could n't remember leaving a light on . |
| 13 | The difference between modes of address and pronouns is that the use of pronouns is unavoidable , particularly since pronominal reference is coded in the inflection of verbs in many languages , whereas one can often avoid addressing a person directly . |
| 14 | The courts will , however , avoid constraining a statute so as to dispense with a hearing completely . |
| 15 | ‘ You just ca n't resist getting a dig in , can you ? ’ |
| 16 | I could n't resist taking a swing over towards the even huger area where full-sized ships would come down , if they did . |
| 17 | ‘ All right , ’ said the woman , ‘ and should I try dangling a fish there to get the cat out , too ? ’ |
| 18 | Joining into a cast iron soil pipe will mean cutting a length out of the stack ( with a hacksaw or angle grinder ) to fit a new length of pipe with a branch connection . |
| 19 | Well , the first part of the question was when , when will they start seeing a return back on that money and secondly , when should n't you equity account it ? |
| 20 | FARMERS WEEKLY Farms can not justify owning a combine indeed , we have contract-hired one from Agricultural Plant Hire since 1972 . |
| 21 | Trainer Toby Balding blamed Richard Guest for making too much use of Romany King and this hugely promising eight-year-old did probably start racing a bit too far from home for comfort . |
| 22 | In the meantime she 's got other things on her mind — and they wo n't involve wearing a skirt either . |
| 23 | Participation would involve attending a meeting once a month and reflecting the views and experiences of their community to the group . |
| 24 | Regression therapy can also involve taking a patient back into the womb . |
| 25 | Mr Wolski could not help remembering a time when he had been a fugitive outside the fences of Sobibor in the scrubland of the Parczew Forest . |
| 26 | The fears that had driven him to race frantically out to the Lock seemed so ridiculous now that he could not help making a joke out of them , and himself . |
| 27 | It was pretence , Cecilia knew , for no one could help feeling an embarrassment so deep as to amount to actual dumb fear in the face of such a performance . |