Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also get requests from work from the organisational review working party , which is a working party that 's erm basically looking to progress to the D M D , Decentralization of Microtization initiative . |
| 2 | They 'd been designing tube amps for decades , and manufacturing them on site , whereas other companies were perhaps wanting to get into the tube amp market from scratch . |
| 3 | He was only pretending to go into the woods ? |
| 4 | It will only be small at the outset for example one might get the opportunity to go in and on or might get the opportunity to go and advise on P R P or something and it 's not suddenly going to result in an invitation er to . |
| 5 | A lot of the best-looking Waafs on the station had acquired Australian boyfriends , and two of the Met girls had recently married them and were impatiently waiting to get on the ship for Aussie-land to join their husbands . |
| 6 | You do , you got , Lee the other night , it 's like Lee last Monday , went on the work experience and Monday night it all came down it 's pouring , oh it 's alright he says , were only going to go to the Woking |
| 7 | If European governments can display the credible threat to back Airbus if necessary , Boeing shareholders are only going to lose by an unsuccessful price war . |
| 8 | Anyway , she was only going to look at a cottage . |
| 9 | The development of the Group was obviously going to depend upon the capacity of management to monitor current , not historical , trends . |
| 10 | Paige strove for rationality in a world that was suddenly threatening to dissolve at the seduction of touch and tone . |
| 11 | It was bad enough having to sleep in the steerage — lying on the floor wherever she could find a place , where cockroaches and rats could run over her while she slept . |
| 12 | The significance is that , together , the two operated to remove an essential feature from the full description of Co-operation ; and in so doing to deny to the movement that function which it was uniquely able to discharge and which was , therefore , most likely to guarantee its growth and survival in perpetuity . |
| 13 | Prima facie their intention was to immobilise the ship and in so doing to interfere with the performance by the owners of their contract or contracts of carriage . ’ |
| 14 | What about learning how to change things for the better rather than merely learning to adapt to the way things are now ? |
| 15 | ‘ I know we had to share a bed , thanks to your lies , ’ she corrected , valiantly trying to stave off the dreaded interrogation . |
| 16 | We can see him as it were constantly restraining his inventiveness , constantly trying to conform to an orthodox view against which his thoughts and emotions rebel , constantly trying to justify Chinese intelligence by dragging it a little nearer to some Western precedent . |
| 17 | Thank you , yes they should be but stand up and I 'm only trying to help in the situation . |
| 18 | The commune attempts to enact its own solidarity through rituals ( group sex , baseball , potlatch , etc. ) , apparently trying to stave off the threats of such hostile outside forces as truckers and bikers . |
| 19 | He was getting a bead on a fish literally trying to run across the surface of the water to his left . |
| 20 | By a quirk of human nature most right-handed pilots want to turn left ( it 's all in the mind ) , while your clockwise-rotating , forward-flying helicopter is still stubbornly trying to yaw to the right ( Fig. 5.11 ) . |
| 21 | It was bad enough trying to get to a classroom and he knew if he had explored the corridors he would have been lost for certain . |
| 22 | He lost no opportunity to use his status as an ideological lever for black causes , eventually refusing to serve in the army on the grounds that blacks had no interest in the Vietnam War . |
| 23 | Pampers are already helping to care for the environment , and now we have some important news for the future . |
| 24 | The track continues uphill , soon levelling to pass between the walls of Fell lane , going forward but constricted for a long and uninteresting mile with Ingleborough out of sight and little worthy of note along the way apart from a large rock embedded in the lane and known as Giant 's Grave . |
| 25 | He spent the entire morning with his legs crossed , not daring to go to the loo in case one of his colleagues was in there at the same time and came to the wrong conclusion . ’ |
| 26 | Fran settled herself in the soft leather seat , not daring to glance at the two men in case she precipitated some sort of an adverse reaction . |
| 27 | " Did the service men come ? " asked Clara , feeling some word required of her , and yet not daring to comment upon the story 's true import . |
| 28 | Returning to the Rossiya and not daring to look at the men and women who stood and swayed beside him . |
| 29 | He walked slowly , not daring to look at the drop on his right and becoming ever more aware of the cold , biting wind and eerie sense of loneliness , as if he hung half way between heaven and earth . |
| 30 | Some customers — including small businesses and homeowners already struggling to survive throughout the recession — are paying 10 per cent or more , even though bank rates have hit seven per cent . |