Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horton broke off and looked at Wycliffe as though apologising for boring him . |
| 2 | Frankie said : ‘ I kept apologising for wasting their time . |
| 3 | ‘ People were apologising for having to vote against us , ’ sighed Freddie Emery-Wallis , the Tory leader of the council for 17 years . |
| 4 | ‘ You know how it is , ’ he would say to their hosts , on the pretext of apologising for arriving late , ‘ She could n't find a thing to wear . |
| 5 | The poor man frantically tried to bargain for his reinstatement , admitting that he had been not altogether sober and apologising for making a resignation he did not want . |
| 6 | A notice apologising for keeping visitors waiting and inviting them to look at the booklets adds the finishing touch . |
| 7 | She came into the studio , apologising for keeping Ruth waiting , and pulling on a light summer jacket . |
| 8 | Then he turned to me , apologising for keeping me waiting , and showed me in to his office . |
| 9 | This afternoon you started out apologising for spying on me , and ended up accusing me of spying on you . ’ |
| 10 | At their first meeting , Berenson is described as ‘ a gentleman with a reddish beard ’ ; apologising for turning up at the artist 's studio unannounced , he offered the excuse that he was ‘ the person who bought all your pictures from Torrini ’ ( an antique dealer with whom Joni placed his first works for sale ) . |
| 11 | Screens can be created at several levels , allowing for rising levels of difficulty in one case or for thematic treatment , or for a mix of information and questions and exercises . |
| 12 | A Welsh and M Davidson had drafted revised job descriptions , re-balancing job loadings , adjusting responsibilities , and allowing for grading differences , for both library assistants ( AA & AO ) , and CW had obtained approval for the changes from existing staff . |
| 13 | Allowing for running and folding time , proof correction , author 's corrections , design and scripting , it soon becomes clear that by early-May you must be sitting down to plan the details of those leaflets — no later . |
| 14 | I remember years ago Edwin preaching about standing in the gap — that gap between heaven and earth , bringing the two together . |
| 15 | Then , Messrs. Gwynne 's proposal for equalising the strain on each individual rope by means of connected hydraulic rams is most satisfactory , as also is their suggesting for actuating the lift-up gates by means of hydraulic pressure utilising the engine for pumping up the accumulator . ’ |
| 16 | Pesci , a bungling burglar in the movie and its upcoming sequel , gave up singing for acting 15 years ago . |
| 17 | Methods you are currently using for identifying training needs . |
| 18 | We asked at what point the environmental effects of catering for housing growth were taken into account ? |
| 19 | In an effort to prepare nursing for meeting society 's needs in the future , policy makers have challenged many of the traditional views and approaches of nurses who evolved in a very different social milieu , and instead identified a much broader role for the new practitioner aimed at improving standards of care available to the public . |
| 20 | Additional ancillary services such as data interpretation , preparation of customised products , and materials handling for logging and treatment of borehole core were being sought as a spin-off from regular project work . |
| 21 | … with GCSE we 're plumping for having an external examiner to come into school , because the school years ago did a Mode 3 CSE , where all the kids put up an exhibition . |
| 22 | Well at one time , I was able to cope with that , but eventually I found myself taking three and four weeks to do it , y'know , with time wasting for going out trying to score and stuff like this , just to feel as though I could cope with the job . |
| 23 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 24 | It worries the lawyers , and the insurance company were always fussing about keeping it in a private house . |
| 25 | The Fat Controller entered the caravan casually , his eyes darting about taking in my few effects , our scattered clothes , the pile of economics books on the little table . |
| 26 | So what the fucking hell are you doing here apologizing for apologizing for a drug . |
| 27 | Like , you 're apologizing for crying . |
| 28 | She heard him fumbling about looking for the lamp switch and then he found it . |
| 29 | Skirting the wood he walked for hours , resting after spotting potato-pickers and distant houses . |
| 30 | Zanadi is recovering after crashing at 170 mph during a practice session before this Sunday 's Belgian Grand Prix . |