Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for using some form of external assistance in recruiting key people are often quite clear : the confidentiality , the know-how and the experience are all obvious factors ; why bring in a headhunter rather than use an advertising consultant is sometimes more difficult to explain . |
| 2 | I was starting to think about cooking some supper when I heard music . |
| 3 | But from this comes the need for the resupply or , less agreeably , for keeping some part of the underclass in continued and deferential subjection . |
| 4 | Thus , the dairymen who farmed the lush meadows of the Dove Valley geared their husbandry to a different system from that followed by the sheep-and-corn farmers on the Lincolnshire Wolds , and the range of opportunities for earning a living and for gaining some measure of independence from a lord or squire was much greater for a cottager living on the edge of a moor , forest or marsh than the scope available to his counterpart in one of the nucleated , corn-growing villages of the Midland Plain . |
| 5 | Anguita had resigned as general co-ordinator of the IU on Nov. 27 , after opposing some PCE members and members of other parties within the alliance who had argued that parties making up the IU should dissolve to form one party . |
| 6 | After driving some distance Angel stopped the carriage to get down and continue on foot . |
| 7 | They often study psychology after developing some expertise in it through education , community , health , or social services work , and they usually return to or take on such work , rather than becoming professional psychologists . |
| 8 | After waiting some time , instead of going to my bedroom and packing again , as before dinner I 'd been so certain , at last , of being able to do , I went in search of him . |
| 9 | After getting some oxygen , he then went back in for a third time . |
| 10 | To find out , the Cornell team did a further experiment , to see whether students became more or less ‘ honest ’ in a hypothetical situation , after doing some economics . |
| 11 | After spending some time , often years , with us , people move on to other things and we need to fill the gaps . ’ |
| 12 | After spending some time with the injured fan , Baggio said that if there was any violence during last Sunday 's game between the same two sides he would ask to be substituted . |
| 13 | The descriptions were perfect , even to George 's crooked thumb , but it was rumoured that they had fled north to Newcastle after spending some time in the Midlands . |
| 14 | After spending some time in an all-night diner on 42nd Street , a calculatedly unshaven Dustin just melted into the atmosphere . |
| 15 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 16 | Dermot says : ‘ My brother Ken was on a round the world trip and went to Nepal after spending some time in India . |
| 17 | After spending some time at 's at Mundford , transferred to Eagle Mill in the early '70s and has been with us ever since . |
| 18 | However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny ! |
| 19 | and then it 'll be all the rates , I know I can get a bit of rebate , but er , I do n't do bad really after having some rebate , but |
| 20 | Certainly , a bank , for example , would look more favourably on an application for an overdraft after having some insight into the future cash position of a firm . |
| 21 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge had been reading Purchas 's His Pilgrimage after taking some opium : In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately palace , encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground with a wall , wherein are fertile Meddowes , pleasant Springs , delightful Streames , and all sorts of beasts of chase and game , and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure . |
| 22 | After drinking some vodka , she went to Mr Lockwood 's home and demanded to see the letter from the CPS . |
| 23 | With this in mind , it is often worth seeking some form of guarantee from the parent company . |
| 24 | ( 5 ) Schools establish library committees as described in the previous section and these , in the light of the guidelines , thrash out a coordinated policy for utilising the expected grant in a plan for developing some aspect or aspects of the curriculum . |
| 25 | The best reason for wanting some account of certainty in our analysis of knowledge is that people are rightly hesitant to claim knowledge when they are less than certain . |
| 26 | But we are concerned with a fundamentally different matter , the possible ways in which some entity ( or property ) , already accepted mentally , might be identified by a speaker , either for the purposes of his own thought or for communicating some idea to an audience ; in the latter case , there is no reason at all to object to the suggestion that the same item might be referred to either by ( 7 ) , or by ( 4 ) or ( 5 ) . |
| 27 | Thus , the Report refers to " English in the highest sense " as " the channel for formative culture for all English people , and the medium of the creative art by which all English writers of distinction , whether poets , historians , Philosopher , or men of science , have secured for us the power of realising some part of their own experience of life " . |
| 28 | Impressed by their officials ' strictures about the need for obeying government rules and directives as a means of maintaining some notion of good local government and the good opinion of Central Government , with a sense of loyalty and dependency towards their officials , and a feeling that their own integrity was at stake , they maintained the policy . |
| 29 | In addition , the use of neural net technology is being investigated as a means of including some learning features useful to the diagnostic process . |
| 30 | Apart from anything else , this gives the individual manager the best chance of building some capital , and the problem of a large organization as opposed to the self-employed lies in the area of capital accumulation . |