Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 2 | The obvious concern is to facilitate capital formation and to channel it into sectors and areas capable of using it most efficiently . |
| 3 | ‘ I was probably dreaming of seeing him again somewhere far from here ! ’ |
| 4 | Maria demanded rudely , not yet fully recovered from the oddly physical shock of seeing him so unexpectedly . |
| 5 | And then on Monday morning things moved around in his head and he started drinking quite a lot , a ] so for Sam 's sake , to toast the victory of seeing him once more and to say a damn to caution . |
| 6 | ‘ It was the excitement of seeing you again so unexpectedly . ’ |
| 7 | And this time instead of speeding it up so we 're whooshing off like a like a bee okay . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm the guy with the job of gluing you together again . |
| 9 | I thought of bringin' it back 'ome with me , but it could n't have stood t' trip , four weeks on me shoulder back to 'Ampton Roads , an' me not able to dress nor undress neither . ’ |
| 10 | erm I mean as I said before , I do n't have relatives out in the Gulf , but I feel immensely for these men that are out there , men and women , and also for the news reporters , I mean nobody 's actually said what an awful job it must be for these news reporters and sort of camera crews that are actually erm doing this sort of wonderful job of bringing us back here all this information . |
| 11 | And now do n't dream of walking me home again . |
| 12 | The 13 headfuls of ideas they 've got show occasional but disturbing signs of driving them aimlessly away from what makes them so good in the first place and into acid rock tedium city . |
| 13 | I 'm gon na be ashamed of driving it again now , I was getting to a point where I was thinking oh my god , Christine came out in black all along here she said , er what 's that ? |
| 14 | there 's any chance of picking them up here , said otherwise I 'm going to have to her take Alex late . |
| 15 | She 'd hoped , thought , it would be nice if he had taken her to lunch sometimes , or let her stay to breakfast in his room at the Franz Joseph instead of pushing her out early and sending her back to the Gasthaus . |
| 16 | ‘ I have to be concerned with Flintshire and so I am biased , but I still feel very confident that we have a squad of players capable of serving us really well this season . ’ |
| 17 | This Charnwood Forest granite is so hard that there was no known way of dressing it well enough for building purposes until the nineteenth century , but it was used for millstones and supplied road metal and kerbstones to London and other parts of England . |
| 18 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 19 | This policy is under review , with the intention of improving it still further . |
| 20 | The official condemnation of the Copernican system did put constraints on what could be taught , though the option of presenting it as merely a mathematical hypothesis was still open , and increasingly taken during the course of the seventeenth century . |
| 21 | ‘ I wo n't be accused of leading you astray again , ’ she warned softly , and after a second he chuckled and relaxed back against the settee . |
| 22 | The thought of describing it out loud to over a hundred people made it feel less convincing than I thought it had been . |
| 23 | Yeah , this business of pulling it down there |
| 24 | What chance have they got of getting them all right when they can only inspect houses from the road outside ? ’ |
| 25 | The benefit of getting it there early and a little leap word which takes you from a feature to a benefit |
| 26 | Instead of considering them in purely ‘ enclave ’ terms ( UNIDO , 1980a : p. 39 ) , they must now be considered as a kind of magnetic field , reinforcing a country 's existing attractiveness as a site for more foreign investment ( Lütkenhorst , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ If the situation does not ease we would take advice nearer to the date from the Foreign Office about the tour , but at the moment we are not in the business of calling it off unilaterally . ’ |
| 28 | It has already been noted that the swash often tends to push shingle up the beach , while the backwash is incapable of moving it down again . |
| 29 | Was he simply scared of committing himself once again , in fear of a second rejection ? |
| 30 | Perhaps that foul seductress had developed a way of doing it absolutely noiselessly , and without movement . |