Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , would we like to try printing something out from WordPerfect ? |
| 2 | He is not optimistic about his chances of getting another job in electronics and says he would consider doing something else . |
| 3 | You should only consider doing anything else if you are absolutely certain that he is definitely going to kill you , in which case you do n't have much to lose . |
| 4 | And if you were caught letting somebody in through a ground floor window about eleven o'clock a night , that , that was it . |
| 5 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 6 | ‘ He ai n't 'arf spinnin' one there ! ’ |
| 7 | She never mentioned receiving anything else from Tristram , with or after his last communication . ’ |
| 8 | We 've been making inquiries and learned that Mr Putt has been seen wearing one rather similar . |
| 9 | We spent eight hours a week listening to the radio — but mainly while doing something else . |
| 10 | They behave similarly should a man appear carrying anything remotely like a gun ( for example , a cricket bat , a length of scaffolding or an umbrella ) . |
| 11 | There had been a similar holder and brass chain in the parish room of his father 's Norfolk church but he could n't remember seeing one since . |
| 12 | Robert was not exactly jealous of the headmaster — he could not remember meeting anyone less sexually threatening . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't like having anyone else in the cockpit while I 'm driving , ’ she said , ‘ that 's all . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Are you planning to avenge his death ? ’ he enquired , neither his voice or face giving anything away . |
| 15 | ‘ They are the things we ca n't be bothered doing anything about , but we should . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't like taking something on and then failing to deliver . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps to avoid taking anything home from the bothy at all , you could stick a candle in some old bacon fat , or a UHT milk carton . |
| 18 | Should n't keep changing everything round . |
| 19 | Also my mum had to share a bedroom with me and she did n't like watching someone else seeing to me . |
| 20 | You may start talking about a particular subject and finish discussing something very different . |
| 21 | And at the end of the day then , you have to weigh up whether or not you decide that even though , if you like in the strictest financial terms , it is not profitable to open the cinema and to employ staff doing that although presumably they 'd have to be employed doing something else unless you changed their rota patterns nonetheless because of your the demands of funding bodies , your own cultural aims and equal opportunities policies , you 've decided that you will do so even though it 's going to be marginally a loss in financial terms . |
| 22 | Suppose we can rescue only some prisoners of tyranny ; justice hardly requires rescuing none even when only luck , not any principle , will decide whom we save and whom we leave to torture . |
| 23 | Come to think of it , I remember reading something recently about a new exhibition of his , going on tour . |
| 24 | I would not suggest obtaining anything as powerful as × 20 unless the aim is to undertake some really serious and specialized kind of observation . |
| 25 | She left the stove , grabbed her holdall and began packing everything back into it . |
| 26 | ‘ I like thinking something through and then setting it down on paper . |
| 27 | Direct discrimination involves treating someone less favourably on the grounds of their sex or marital status ( the 1975 Act ) or colour , race , ethnic or national origins or nationality ( the 1976 Act ) . |
| 28 | And if you knew that pushing one particular thing was going to get you nowhere you did n't waste time going on pushing it , you left off and started pushing something else . |
| 29 | At the time the name seemed just too obviously a snipe at rdbms rival Oracle Corp , which began rolling out its delayed Release 7 over the course of 1992 : Sybase 's current release name is 4.9 , and there seemed no logical reason to start calling anything out of the fast-growing system software supplier 's warehouses ‘ System 10 . ’ |
| 30 | At the time the name seemed just too obviously a snipe at relational database rival Oracle Corp , which began rolling out its delayed Release 7 over the course of 1992 : Sybase 's current release name is 4.9 , and there seemed no logical reason to start calling anything out of the fast-growing system software supplier 's warehouses ‘ System 10 ’ . |