Example sentences of "[v-ing] [num] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 Do n't spend too much time correcting one individual or just saying " NO " . |
| 2 | It is bad enough having the sufferer saying one thing but really meaning another without the counsellor getting caught up in the same macabre " game " . |
| 3 | This is not to imply that the mid-nineteenth-century ( male ) bourgeois ( or those who aspired to be like him ) was merely dishonest , preaching one morality while deliberately practising another , though patently the conscious hypocrite is more often to be found where the gap between official morality and the demands of human nature is unbridgeable , as in this period it often was . |
| 4 | There was n't much space along here , and he could no longer rely on people taking one look and then getting out of his way because there was nowhere for them to go . |
| 5 | On April 17 one of the bombs discovered , a radio bomb , exploded at the federal police headquarters in Wiesbaden , near Frankfurt , killing one officer and critically injuring another . |