Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sidled into the room , scarcely daring to breathe lest I harm the recording . |
| 2 | She crept downstairs , remembering to avoid the creaking step , and padded softly across the living-room floor , hardly daring to breathe as she opened the front door . |
| 3 | Matthews ( 1962 ) suggested the use of synthesis ( the generation of all possible sentences and checking to see whether they match the input ) to apply transformational grammars . |
| 4 | The petition your correspondent mentioned ( while conveniently omitting to mention that it contained the signatures of 179 concerned parents ) was crucial to that meeting taking place . |
| 5 | But that does n't apa , but what they look like is not going to affect whether I support the Ministerial Committee or not . |
| 6 | He gazed at her , in silence , as if waiting to see if she had the strength to carry out this assertion . |
| 7 | In the end that is the same thing as Andrew Murray has been attempting to do since he joined the Tour in 1979 . |
| 8 | Eventually it dawned on me that he was n't going to change and I had the choice of either leaving or learning to live with it . |
| 9 | What was she going to face when they reached the privacy of the solar ? |
| 10 | I mean , I knew what was going to happen when I started the exercise , but if you contemplate it from a teacher 's point of view , if I go out and commit suicide or break down you 'll know why , wo n't you . |
| 11 | I am unaware that any of this is going to happen as I enter the hotel lobby on my way to dinner . |
| 12 | Am I going to recommend that you buy the BT shares ? |
| 13 | He was beginning to find that he enjoyed the big offworlder 's company , and it was amazing how many things they had in common . |
| 14 | His hostess was beginning to wilt as she greeted the guests who , by now , were queuing half-way up the grand staircase . |
| 15 | I am beginning to wonder if I inhabit the same planet . |
| 16 | She was halfway round and beginning to fret when she entered the Fragonard Room and was briefly transported to a French salon of the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | The amount by which the latter is over-length is the length of time that you should allow the source recording to run before you begin the transfer onto the cued tape ; the music will then end exactly on cue . |
| 18 | It is important when testing a cat 's hearing to ensure that you make the noise to check its reactions out of sight of the cat . |
| 19 | We suppose that not just This is not in fact necessary for salt fingering to occur but it simplifies the presentation . |
| 20 | But this struck at the very heart of what Laura was hoping to achieve and she quashed the suggestion with ferocity . |