Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun pl] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 2 | Instinctively the two men were looking for faces that they knew — Mary McCulloch and her friends , big Mary as tall as a man , red-haired Flora . |
| 3 | Ludo was hovering on the landing in his size forty-six pyjamas , looking for ways that he could help . |
| 4 | Large demands have to be floated gently and you must stay in touch with the other party 's reactions by looking for signals that they are being pushed too far or too fast . |
| 5 | The Campaign is lobbying for reforms that it thinks are needed to end what it sees as largescale use of misleading sales techniques used by the photocopier industry . |
| 6 | Just as you learn you learn your basic modes of essay writing in essays that I 'm not going mark for A Level exams , okay , erm , but there is another way . |
| 7 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 8 | This would certainly have been within the power of an omnipotent being , but if he had started it off in such an incomprehensible way , why did he choose to let it evolve according to laws that we could understand ? |
| 9 | She was pacing up and down in the house , was hostile to other family members and was shouting at voices that she ( and no-one else ) heard . |
| 10 | Can you accommodate both cultures without offending either and without giving private clients ( particularly ) the feeling that they are paying for things that they do not want ( eg plush meeting rooms ) ? |
| 11 | Replying to reports that it has published misleading SPECmark performance claims for its boxes by using unavailable compiler and pre-compiler technology in its testing ( UX No 378 ) , Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , says the company will use shipped compilers for future SPECfp and SPECint performance benchmarking . |
| 12 | He was replying to demands that he should resign to pave the way for talks between the Pakistan-based mujahedin resistance and Kabul 's ruling Peoples Democratic Party ( PDPA ) on a peace settlement . |
| 13 | So , save a lot of things going to areas that you might do different then . |
| 14 | The major axis of Stonehenge is aligned with the exact positions of the midwinter and midsummer solstice , leading to suggestions that it was built for ceremonies to mark the annual calendar and seasons . |
| 15 | So I have to say to you that whilst I 'm putting these forward , it 's absolutely clear that we would be having adverse comments and criticism er , from the S S I , and that you would be moving into areas that I ca n't recommend to you , but I , I put them forward as obviously illustrations . |
| 16 | Mrs Gunner 's ex-husband was preparing to fly to Faro last night clinging to hopes that she may have missed the flight . |
| 17 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 18 | It was bitterly resentful , her hatred burning high as she remembered the months running into years that it had taken for her to convince herself that the guilt she had felt after her own father 's death was a self-destructive trap and just one more wrong done to her by Luke Scott . |
| 19 | More fundamentally , managed competition and the new system of contract funding means that clinicians and managers have a common interest in demonstrating to purchasers that they provide good quality , cost-effective care . |
| 20 | But his turning up at such an occasion may be an explicit act of communication — a way of saying without words that he can now resist the blandishments of the bar and that his friends and colleagues are to regard him as a reformed character . |
| 21 | By 1719 its absorption of so much of the unfunded debt was suggesting to ministers that they might also shift a proportion of the funded debt its way . |
| 22 | You conclude your article by suggesting to readers that they reserve their money for those with integrity and courage , such as Amnesty International … and the Heavenly Records EP ! ! ? ? |
| 23 | ‘ I survived but I have joined the group because I want to put something back raising money and proving to others that you can survive . ’ |
| 24 | No I said erm I had a conversation with Gillian about reading , about little bits of reading and , I made the point that we 'd said last night about him barking at print , reading through words that he did n't know and not asking what they were and she said she 'd noticed that . |
| 25 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend realise that in dealing with things that we hold so dear we want to make sure that the European Community gives us a good bargain and that what we give to it will be given back to us ? |
| 27 | As the problem which prompted the question has been resolved by the Inland Revenue , will my hon. Friend pass on to its staff the thanks of many Members of Parliament for dealing with issues that we have raised on behalf of our constituents and say that we hope that the problems will continue to decline as tax rates come down rather than go up ? |
| 28 | The social worker helped her examine more closely the cognitive ‘ roadblock ’ to action , and she conceded that she was jumping to conclusions that they would be annoyed with her if she postponed tea until 7 p.m . |
| 29 | First , he was on a job , and secondly , he knew without putting into words that she was no girlfriend for an ambitious copper . |
| 30 | Environmentalists have been particularly alarmed by the disappearance of this whole network of species for reasons unknown , for it demonstrates a world that is changing in ways that we do not understand . |