Example sentences of "[vb -s] [v-ing] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 2 | As soon as a domestic hen chick hatches it starts pecking at grains that look like food , and as it grows older its aim at food grains improves . |
| 3 | He says getting into shops and going from floor to floor is often impossible . |
| 4 | He says getting into shops and going from floor to floor is often impossible . |
| 5 | He says getting into shops and going from floor to floor is often impossible . |
| 6 | And gathering that information means knocking on doors and asking people questions . |
| 7 | Composer Debbie Campbell says she really enjoys writing for children and developing their natural enthusiasm for wildlife and the environment — a book of the play has been published in association with the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) . |
| 8 | In his spare time , Mr Chettle enjoys looking for fossils and regards the east coast as ‘ a brilliant area ’ for his hobby . |
| 9 | The regularities he observed in this process suggest that the species behaves according to rules that limit the possible variety of behaviours that could occur as they meet one another . |