Example sentences of "[vb infin] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional Elancyl treatment involves the green massage glove containing Elancyl soap with ivy , which you can really enjoy using briskly in the bath or shower . |
| 2 | She seemed very pleased with me , and finally she said , ‘ Would you enjoy living here in the palace , do you think ? ’ |
| 3 | Basically the paper suggested that we should consider moving away from the tax-financed National Health Service to private health insurance . |
| 4 | Then they were aware of something , out there beyond the benches , which they could sense moving silently in the mist , and though he strained to see it he could not quite catch the thing in one place , for it seemed to come ant go , larger than the bench and bin , looming nearer but not quite seen , dark and grey and pointing to the sky . |
| 5 | Opposite them were two or three other characters Robert could not remember seeing before at the school . |
| 6 | I CAN NOT remember looking forward to a Tory conference with such relish . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if the rocket has more than a certain critical speed ( about seven miles per second ) gravity will not be strong enough to pull it back , so it will keep going away from the earth forever . |
| 8 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 9 | yes , I should n't mind going away in a few weeks , if , if |
| 10 | So would you mind staying here in the surgery until he comes in ? |
| 11 | ‘ He just wanted to play cricket , ’ said Stanworth , ‘ and did n't mind coming straight from a full house at Leicester to a second team game at Southport . |
| 12 | We er we got very close to beating Bellevue at Bellevue which was okay I mean everybody 's a bit rusty so and we were experimenting with tyres and everything and er it was only a challenge , but it was nice to get the first meeting on the way and er I was very impressed by some of er the team members of what I saw , I knew er team mate Dean Bargger was doing particularly well scoring 11 points and er he 's really a promising er youngster which I think we can get a lot of use out of , and er in general I mean you know Ellis Stevens was doing particularly well as well , so if those two can keep doing well during the season , then okay mine had a few problems , she only scored 3 points , but that was just a one-off so yeah I thing we look quite strong on paper again now . |
| 13 | ‘ I can still remember standing there at the party when that woman Pargeter told me . |
| 14 | What do yob see as your main spiritual gift and how do you see ministering together as a couple ? |
| 15 | He says I must stop running away from the past . |
| 16 | Though extremely painful , you should try walking normally on the injured foot , lifting the heel as you step forwards . |
| 17 | This would imply doing away with the ‘ closed ’ shop system . |
| 18 | Will th'be sailing again with the Cap'n soon ? ’ |
| 19 | Planning a display does n't mean sticking rigidly to a formal design . |
| 20 | I 'm gon na stand looking outside at the garden oh I must do |
| 21 | These strips would allow mowing right to the edge of the lawn and would also allow the edge to be trimmed with edging shears . |
| 22 | I can recall driving home with the Jacksons in a high cart . |
| 23 | And every night , before Swan arrived , he saw to it that the curtains were drawn back and the window was open wide so that the great white bird could come gliding right into the room and land on the floor beside his bed . |
| 24 | SIR — I agree with George Walden that David Mellor should beware acting hastily against the BBC for its election coverage ( article , April 13 ) . |
| 25 | Alternatively , sow or plant the sort of winter salad plants which will continue growing happily beneath a canopy of brassica leaves . |
| 26 | Forecasters thought the iceberg — once measuring 65 miles by 50 miles , and now measuring 35 miles by 20 — would continue drifting eastwards towards the island of South Georgia and onwards towards South Africa , breaking up and melting on the way . |
| 27 | Mr Stefan Abrams , an investment analyst at Kidder Peabody , thinks earnings will start rising again in the second quarter . |
| 28 | His ambition was to ‘ continue moving forward in a positive way ’ and he ‘ hoped that THE FACE would ask him in ten years ’ time what he was doing ’ |
| 29 | and I 'm hoping that the local authority will start coming across with a bit of work for me . |
| 30 | He says he has high hopes for unity finally and apparently thinks the industry might start coming together at the Unix International members meeting in New Orleans February 11–12 where some 100 companies and 200 people will assemble . |