Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard is responsible for seeing that it is done . |
| 2 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |
| 3 | Finally Rose of Lima also had the great consolation of believing that she was doing a socially useful job — and there were not many of these available for women in the early seventeenth century . |
| 4 | She had had no experience of domestic affairs , but she managed well enough , and had the satisfaction of knowing that she was doing something for Susan , after all . |
| 5 | Since documents prepared with either indented or hanging paragraphs tend to be consistently of the one style , it is as easy to set up the format before typing as it is to do it afterwards . |
| 6 | ‘ Why , I 've got a pair of old signalling flags somewhere you could have , ’ she told Cheryl on hearing that she was doing a Semaphore Challenge on the Brownie Highway . |