Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] that [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't fancy lugging that round a golf course . ’ |
| 2 | Therefore it seemed fitting that as a tribute to him and his comrades I produce a sculpture with this tool . |
| 3 | Try telling that to a woman who bleeds five days in every month for thirty , thirty five , forty years of her life . |
| 4 | And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong . |
| 5 | For smaller cities tight inner ring roads were advocated , Tripp suggesting that in a city of 100,000 population the radius of the inner ring road would probably be a quarter to half a mile , while in a city of a million , the radius would be a mile or more . |