Example sentences of "[v-ing] [n mass] [coord] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survey , costing £85,000 and taking up to two years to complete , has been prompted by American studies which have led to calls for the banning of some chemicals . |
| 2 | We filled a great many notebooks with testing data but learnt very little about the strength of materials . |
| 3 | He has also gratefully accepted Athena 's help in recruiting staff and handed over his payroll for the company to process . |
| 4 | You 're into facts and figures and knowing people and knowing where to get |
| 5 | Cherry Vanilla was doing nothing — she was eating fruit and breaking out all the time as a result , Jane was doing nothing too — she 'd started a group called Queen Elizabeth which played little , low-life funky bars on the Lower Eastside , Tony Zanetta was working coding , which is a very ignominious job that out-of-work actors do in New York , and I was working at 16 Magazine as a tea boy . |
| 6 | ‘ That he 's running round London killing people and does n't seem to want to stop . ’ |