Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference examined some of the key issues relating to CEHE and provided participants with examples of good practice in Community Enterprise and a very sound basis on which to develop Community Enterprise at Napier . |
| 2 | Seven swans swimming arrived and disappeared again before Paddington had a chance to see them . |
| 3 | The ball come across and er I see Bedford had his back to the goal , and I could see he was going to swivel and hit it with his left foot , and I 've just come across the goal and er , he just hit it down low to my right hand side and luckily I 've come the right way and pushed it wide . |
| 4 | You actually need to consider this person because , if you have n't got that person i.e. customer there 's little point in having a menu unless you 're going to sit and read it yourself ! |
| 5 | And when we were getting people from outside coming there and some of them quite militant they were going to sit and lay across the road . |
| 6 | He asked me what I was going to wear and said his mam had just bought him a new duffle coat and did I like it , ’ she says . |
| 7 | Charlotte I wish you would n't do that because you keep sliding , one day you 're going to slide and hit your face . |
| 8 | Recently we 've had Danny Apsey , the poet , come to talk to a group and next week we 're having Ted Hughes , who 's going to come and read his poems to us . |
| 9 | Then she got into her thick outdoor coat and pulled on a small brown felt hat , picked up her bag and a list of things she was going to buy and went downstairs , still without seeing her mother . |
| 10 | McLeish saw that she was crying again , but decided coldly there was nothing he was going to do and trudged wearily back to the lift , the morning 's cheerfulness totally evaporated . |
| 11 | He put aside a newspaper he 'd been going to read and jumped out of his cab . |
| 12 | I tried to turn in behind him but found that I was going to overshoot and pulled away to starboard . |
| 13 | Mr Hale , of Summerville Avenue , Minster-on-Sea , Sheerness , Kent , thought he was going to die and suffered hallucinations in the November 1987 blaze . |
| 14 | They both sent their love to you , ’ he added , remembering the day when he thought that Julia was going to die and had gone to them in despair . |
| 15 | He bit off whatever he was going to say and inhaled deeply , smoothing his face into a blank expression so that only the hot glitter in his eyes betrayed his anger . |
| 16 | He said today : ‘ I was n't sure what was going to happen and did n't really expect to make a decision . ’ |
| 17 | If the syndicates running off their contracts were aware of the problems that were going to occur and did not inform Outhwaite , then they were not acting in utmost good faith . |
| 18 | She felt herself beginning to shake and grasped the back of a chair to steady herself . |
| 19 | Although I was only a few miles away over the river , I missed the London I was getting to know and played games with myself like : if the secret police ordered you to live in the suburbs for the rest of your life , what would you do ? |
| 20 | Shirley , standing on the bar beside her , followed her pointing linger and gave a gasp . |
| 21 | His conduct was described by Megarry V-C as amounting to gross and repeated breaches of his implied obligation to be faithful to the plaintiffs . |
| 22 | KEYS : ‘ But it is not just a question of what is going on on the park , it 's what 's happening elsewhere that we 're beginning to hear and read about and that 's never been the case at Liverpool previously , ever . |
| 23 | But , despite getting kicked and punched , he handled himself very well . ’ |
| 24 | Getting dressed and undressed is something we do almost unthinkingly , but for young children it is an amazingly complicated task — just think of all those buttons and zips ! |
| 25 | She was paralysed , could n't focus , knew that Gran could n't hurry herself getting dressed and needed help . |
| 26 | The boy , weeping and bleeding , recognized Zeinab as the lady they were coming to see and managed to stammer out the story of the attack on his father . |
| 27 | Mr Simpson spoke of the unaccustomed burden the landladies were having to carry and stressed the need for ‘ good public relations work ’ . |
| 28 | Bill Service , Personnel Manager states ‘ In all the time she has been in the Mill , she was never late of absent until February 1987 when she unfortunately slipped while coming to work and sustained a dislocated elbow . ’ |
| 29 | Having seized and anaesthetised one , she does not withdraw her sting but flies back to her burrow with the fly still impaled behind her like a sausage on a stick . |
| 30 | However Mr Gould — who issued a warning against a hasty leadership change — signalled that he was preparing to stand and said it was ‘ no secret ’ that he was being encouraged to do so . |