Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [conj] [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Whereas the more ideas you get , the more things you have to look at , the more chances you 've got of getting something that 's really good and unusual .
2 On the Bani Hashem side , a prospective candidate was Ali 's first son , Hassan , who appears to have despaired of achieving anything and was comfortably defeated by Muawiyah .
3 You can hardly put into advertising something that is very personal to each family . ’
4 You can either think about doing one that is very literature based which I supposed might end up being sort of a rewrite of a lot of the stuff you can read .
5 It is ludicrous that the Government should say that airlines and other carriers should be punished for doing something that is not their job .
6 ‘ I 'm no cynic , I care about the people who work for Sarah Chester 's , I care about the ideals my grandparents believed in , about the welfare of the employees , their physical and mental well-being , their degree of satisfaction in creating something that 's positively useful and worthwhile in this world … ’
7 What does one say to the mother who complains that sometimes her child will go on and on doing something that is not only naughty but dangerous .
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