Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't know you were goin' to go and walk into another bloody bog last night and get all the sandwiches wet , did I ? ’ |
| 2 | Mrs. Mallett , the typist from the general office , had brought her knitting to work and fortified by an unshakeable alibi — she had sat between the postmistress and Mr. Mason from the general store at the village concert — and with something to occupy her hands , sat clicking away with understandable if irritating complacency until given the order of release . |
| 3 | Margaret Ely from New York , on the other hand , was equally compelling in providing many specific examples of both beginning and more seasoned action researchers struggling to create and reflect upon their own writing . |
| 4 | Perhaps the shopkeeper should have a panic button under the counter to press during such a confrontation , and while humouring the shopper by pretending to go and look for some grey ones , stout men could rush in and restrain the customer before he can make it to his Access card . |
| 5 | I can not get around now as I was once able to for my newspapers — but I stick to my policy now , as then , of wanting to see and size up would-be advertisers beforehand , so beg the pardon of the newcomers not included in my list . |
| 6 | Some 2,000 to 4,000 students , lecturers and university workers remained inside , refusing to leave and to submit to searches at the exits to the campus . |
| 7 | Night in , night out he sat at home in his basement office dictating his account of the day , and seeking to record and explain for posterity what was going wrong . |
| 8 | And that 's telling 'em — Jess thought , wanting to cheer and boo at the same time . |
| 9 | Life there was hard , especially in winter and today no one over-winters on the island , islanders preferring to fish and farm in summer and to retreat to the comforts of Tromsø in winter . |
| 10 | I 'm going to go and wave to your mummy , seeing as no one else will ! |
| 11 | I was going to go and sit by the river with Dorothy Wordsworth . |
| 12 | ‘ Now , I 'm going to go and apologise to her . |
| 13 | ‘ But now you mention it , I 'm going to go and look in her bedroom too . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | if you float you 'll stay at the top , some people can float and they do n't need arm bands , they stay at the top and if you sink they go to the bottom , now we 've got to look at these things look and we 've got to decide whether we think they 're gon na float , stay on the top or whether they 're going to sink and go to the bottom , now then what 's this here ? |
| 16 | We 're going to wait and listen to the News . ’ |
| 17 | Although it would be glib to presume that the removal of a pupil from his or her usual classes is necessarily the wrong strategy , there are obvious contradictions in operating a system based on negative sanctions and the off-loading of responsibility for one group whilst attempting to accept and cater for the diversity of the rest . |
| 18 | And this is what I am going to try and do on this course . |
| 19 | I 'm going to try and manage without that er support on my arm today . |
| 20 | Are you going to try and check about er whether you are |
| 21 | We tried for compensation and we 've got Tony Baldry , who we 're going to see Saturday , and he 's going to try and claim for us under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act . |
| 22 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
| 23 | And if you 're going to try and look inside one of these things then you 're going to have to use very high energy particles , which in quantum physics means something that is very short wavelength that you can actually look inside , and when you look inside these things by , say , scattering electrons from them , very high energy electrons , it appears that inside a proton and inside a neutron is mainly again just free space , and there are other point like objects inside these particles , and these objects are know as quarks . |
| 24 | You 're not going to try and reason with them ? |
| 25 | Now I 'm going to try and deal with the qualification . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm going to come and work at the school , ’ said Maisie . |
| 27 | I 'm going to come and live at Moorlake . " |
| 28 | It starts on Wednesday , and , you know , I 'm taking time off from searching for props at the last minute and dress rehearsing to come and talk to you . |
| 29 | Often , the usual guidelines still apply , but it may be reassuring to highlight and comment on a few of the special situations in which some parents are placed . |
| 30 | Neither is anyone going to fetch and carry for you when you are in bed with influenza , or be there to patch you up when you fall over , burn or cut yourself . |