Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped eating to grin at me . |
| 2 | Officially , the force was supposed to go in by invitation only ; avoid looking like the heavy mob ; and not humiliate authorities which felt they were hounded because they were struggling to cope on their own . |
| 3 | transition , erm clearly , er it would be a nonsense if we were making people redundant here ing if er either London or Coventry were struggling to cope with their |
| 4 | Network SouthEast , struggling to cope with its massive upsurge in business , proceeded with complete refurbishment of serviceable 1960s stock and started massive investment in new trains , notably its Networker . |
| 5 | For while your granny may have been content to envelope herself in a cloud of ‘ Tweed ’ each and every morning of her life — never daring to deviate from her ‘ trademark ’ perfume for so much as tea with the vicar — most of us , today , possess a positive wardrobe of perfumes to play with . |
| 6 | NATO 's politicians and defence planners are struggling to agree on what threats Europe now faces and on what sort of common defences it should have in future . |
| 7 | Deaf dogs can manage surprisingly well , with their eyesight and sense of smell helping to compensate for their lack of hearing . |
| 8 | Once he drew in his breath , as though startled to recognize his own half-known thoughts : and when the poem was ended he seemed to be struggling to come to himself . |
| 9 | ‘ I got some humbugs I was goin' to slip in me mouth . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 's beginnin' to sound like me , ’ Tom said . |
| 11 | The student went on to say that , though he had received help for a specific question , he had not obtained enough understanding to cope with his future library problems . |
| 12 | But I loved their products and was dying to work for them . ’ |
| 13 | But however , it raised my Curiosity very much : And happening to meet with her a Day or two afterwards , I begg 'd the Favour of seeing it ; which was readily granted . |
| 14 | You might even try walking to work in them . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize , ’ Van Gogh had written , groping to define for his brother the human essence that was his aim in pictures such as this . ’ |
| 16 | But he did not simply dismiss religion on this score ; rather he kept returning to reflect upon it . |
| 17 | Some people were having holiday romances : they radiated an air of barefaced sin and were itching to talk about it . |
| 18 | He 's dying to glare at me , but his neighbour , Mrs Mills , needs advice about a motor car . |
| 19 | Mother Francis had told her that the bold Eve had n't written or telephoned , and that all the Sisters were dying to hear from her . |
| 20 | By the look of this young girl in black , she 'd have some explaining to do to someone . |
| 21 | I think people were just dying to seize upon anything they could find . |
| 22 | He may have another outing on the Flat before bidding to add to his National Hunt tally here next month . |
| 23 | With the coarse fishing season opening at a minute past midnight tonight June 16 anglers all over the region will be itching to get to their favourite waters . |
| 24 | I had to go up this wide , curving staircase and along about three miles of landing to get to my room . |
| 25 | Equally well , rather than disappoint you , the assistant may say ( hat the item is not in stock at present but may be in next week — after several weeks of returning to ask about it , you may suddenly realize that the item never is coming in . |
| 26 | But it also stirred feelings of guilt and pity within me which I am still grappling to explain to myself . |
| 27 | And her lips , opening to reply to his question , were long and mobile , eloquent even before she spoke , though she might sometimes go on to contradict what they had intimated . |
| 28 | He thought that though our advertising and promotion were good we were not publicising the true nature of the event , i.e. Salford graduates returning to tell of their experiences . |
| 29 | U2 's Achtung Baby album won five trophies but they stayed home — preferring to celebrate in their favourite Dublin pub instead . |
| 30 | I do n't know what 's goin' to 'appen to my respect for you . |