Example sentences of "[noun] of [v-ing] they [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could n't smoke when they were bad for fear of breaking them up . |
| 2 | Finishing her coffee , she collected some leaflets from the hall table , and , with the intention of taking them up to her room to read , returned to the lounge to say goodnight — a plan instantly foiled by Feargal 's mother , who seemed to have shed her vagueness , along with her daughter , who had disappeared , and patted the seat beside her in silent invitation . |
| 3 | Many schools were established by communities on a self-help basis , with the intention of handing them over to the government . |
| 4 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 5 | Three coal mines in Yorkshire which employ fifteen hundred people between them are to have their futures reviewed with the intention of closing them down . |
| 6 | I accept that other commitments interfere , but I have no intention of giving them up — they are an important part of my life . |
| 7 | And it definitely has the effect of calming them down . |
| 8 | But it had the desired effect of snapping them out of their indecision and galvanising them into action . |
| 9 | The customer must not only know the protections he is giving up ( see ( 2 ) below ) but must also be aware of the effect of giving them up ; ( 2 ) The firm has given him a clear written warning of the private customer protections he will lose ; all the main protections must be listed ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) and not just those specified by SFA itself in its guidance . |
| 10 | Hall defended the action he had taken and proposed that ‘ during the recess , to look at the designs which had been approved by the judges , and endeavour to ascertain the expense of carrying them out ; but nothing further would be done until the House was informed on that point ’ . |
| 11 | She had only three members of her immediate family left in Bosnia but did not hold out much hope of getting them out . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |
| 13 | Unionist reactions were twofold , first to play up the war itself as a unifier of classes , and second to exploit divisions in the Labour movement in the hope of carrying them over into peacetime . |
| 14 | Last weekend they huffed and puffed at the unbeaten league leaders Wasps and were within one try of blowing them down . |
| 15 | This idea that the essentials for salvation are never ‘ above reason ’ sits uneasily with what Locke has already said about the practical difficulty of working them out for oneself . |
| 16 | As regards yeomen the statistics serve chiefly to emphasise the difficulty of pinning them down to a precise definition . |
| 17 | The problem sheets are so difficult now nobody can do them and they usually just wait until the answers come out every week and usually it 's just a case of copying them down . |
| 18 | In many respects the history of the Club 's first 80 years is the story of buying them out ! |
| 19 | Erm you 'll hav have plenty of opportunity of writing them down and erm you 'll be given a lot of extracts of music like you probably were in that book |
| 20 | It 's a question of getting them back , they have n't long gone but er |
| 21 | The others , and that maybe just a question of tying them up and |
| 22 | ‘ But it is not just a question of ripping them down . |
| 23 | lots of mums will ask about their baby 's feet , do you think there 's anything wrong with this , and they 'll sort of be holding their feet sort of wiggling them around , doing this , that and the other |
| 24 | That 's right , and , and the first act of the play is a rehearsal and it keeps stopping and the director keeps sort of straightening them out and they 're dealing with little problems , and when you 're actually rehearsing it you find yourself sort of repeating the play because it 's so ac Michael Frayn who wrote it has so accurately observed what happens er when you 're directing a play that er you find yourself re-enacting the play and , and suddenly find a discussion you 've just been having has part sounds as if it 's come out of the script . |
| 25 | he was boom , whacking them with his cape , sort of chasing them out of town , you know , and I must say , they never came back . |
| 26 | Are you sort of winding them down ? |
| 27 | He issues this warning to parents : ‘ Let them not too much apply themselves to the disposition of their children ’ — in short , not to become obsessed with the whole business of bringing them up . |
| 28 | Er Emma keep thy hands to thy self otherwise that the eye can induce the old custom of putting them off |
| 29 | She used a combination of small weights , to have the fun of adding them up . |
| 30 | ‘ But it 's a day of softening them up , sir , really , is n't it ? ’ said Pooley . |