Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is simply and solely a political problem which politicians , political parties and Governments must set about solving through the political process . |
| 2 | With a sinking heart , she also realised that she must go on living with the Ward family , at least for now . |
| 3 | After all , as Deborah Hutton , health editor of Vogue , put it : ‘ If you 're the sort of person who frowns , even if you do wear these things for an hour while you exercise , you 'll carry on frowning for the rest of the day after you 've taken them off . ’ |
| 4 | I 'LL CARRY ON FIGHTING UNTIL THE DAY I DIE |
| 5 | But if the guy tries to lay a finger on me , he 'll end up staring at the moon ! ’ |
| 6 | No it 's normally from Saturday morning till Sunday morning I just think we 'll end up going for the day but he said , he 's got Gerry coming up from Hull to mind the shop on Saturday , he said oh you 're tired and you need a change and a rest he said something like erm |
| 7 | If you were back in your own house and subject to the same old strains you might end up getting into the same sort of scrape again . |
| 8 | At the same time this was an occasion for using the telephone , not cables , teletexes or letters which could be misdirected or might end up lying on the desks of the wrong people . |
| 9 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
| 10 | This meant that country could keep on running during the war , and , proving that they could do the same jobs as men , women gave themselves an enormous boost in the push for votes . |
| 11 | In 1916 , when her daughter Carrie 's husband was killed at the Somme , she managed that too , looking after the three-year old my mother , so that Carrie could go on working at the mill . |
| 12 | At least half the fund 's assets could end up going to the Treasury — a move which pensioners are calling the second Great Train Robbery . |
| 13 | ‘ It could be New York , Connecticut , Washington or Manhattan , ’ she said , and I could end up working with the elderly , mentally handicapped , children or Aids victims . ’ |
| 14 | He said what he thought teams could end up playing on the pitches without paying for them , and it would be up to the council whether it called police to remove the players . |
| 15 | Local people , who never wanted the event to be held are angry that they could end up paying for the three-day police operation . |
| 16 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
| 17 | BEWARE of taking part in karaoke — you may end up hurtling towards the ground from a great height with only a length of elastic preventing a headlong dive to oblivion . |
| 18 | It was getting late , and not many folk would stay up carousing on the night before a Recovery . |
| 19 | We could have guessed that Abraham would end up paying over the odds , but not as much as this . |
| 20 | We would go on loving in the same old way … |
| 21 | So it was agreed that while Mrs MacDonagh would go on looking after the two youngest Milligans during the day , Dermot , Fergal and Mike , the eldest brothers , would take over as soon as they were back from school . |
| 22 | There are 5000 collapses and blockages every year in England and Wales and , says the Water Research Centre , the number will carry on increasing in the coming decades . |
| 23 | Make it absolutely clear , as I did , that you are prepared to fight back at any time of the day or night no matter how painful it may be ; and that you will keep on fighting until the day you finally beat them . |
| 24 | And in the long term , as Keynes might also have said , we will keep on worrying about the short term . |
| 25 | But unless the offers , like £10 off a suit , make enough of us buy , the experts fear the campaign will end up biting into the M&S profit margins . |
| 26 | Yeah I do n't know whether that swing will end up going to the tip if it comes down , it 's a bit rusty int it ? |
| 27 | It is not yet known , however , who will end up paying for the Juno project , currently being supported by the London-based Moscow Narodny Bank . |
| 28 | And so finely tuned is its sense of hearing and its appreciation of timing that it will go on feeding until the very last minute , only springing to safety after the rattler has launched its otherwise deadly final strike . |
| 29 | A girl who is very tall for her age may fear that she will go on growing at the same rate indefinitely , while a boy who is shorter than his mates of the same age may be afraid that he will be permanently undersized . |
| 30 | If , on the other hand , gases continue to escape while the lava is being erupted , bubbles will go on growing in the lava , and these will be preserved in the rock when it cools . |