Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ With many people 's desires to move being delayed or not taking place because of job and housing difficulties there may well be demands to make cities more acceptable or even attractive places to live , ’ said Miss Hughes . |
| 2 | A rabbit in fear of an enemy will sometimes crouch stockstill , either fascinated or else trusting to its natural inconspicuousness to remain unnoticed . |
| 3 | There would not have been much music , one is suddenly reminded or much singing and dancing where Anna came from . |
| 4 | England 's fortunes under Mike Gatting had been varied , losing relentlessly at home , carrying all before them in a triumphal tour of Australia , narrowly losing a World Cup final they should have won and then having their captain , under great provocation , address naughty words to a Pakistani umpire . |
| 5 | How could he do this to her — forever turning up when he was least expected and always managing to catch her at a disadvantage ? |
| 6 | She was maimed ; her mast and sails splintered , torn and partly missing . |
| 7 | Mansel lies wounded and apparently dying : |
| 8 | It was the risk of getting caught and then losing any chance that she might ever have of getting her hands on Charlie 's ledger information . |
| 9 | It was to be a very full weekend of well organised and highly enlightening meetings ; the opportunity to hear some excellent speakers : and the chance to renew old friendships and make new ones . |
| 10 | ( These were varied but always touching ) . |
| 11 | Realising that he was not only wasting his time until the storm abated but also endangering his life , George turned in what he hoped was the right direction for home . |
| 12 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 13 | are trapped while still using their insights regarding the economic or social bases of Thatcherism . |
| 14 | However much one wanted to run down the existing hospitals , demand for beds would keep them open unless patients were quite unscrupulously discharged while still needing considerable care . |
| 15 | As would be expected , such a use would not be possible with make , since the law would appear to be actually bringing about the paying of taxes ( " concurrent causation " ) : ( 166 ) * The law makes everyone pay his taxes , With oblige , on the other hand , the tax law is depicted as simply imposing a state of obligation in the present , which leaves the future actualization of paying taxes up to each individual , who may or may not actually pay them . |
| 16 | Although this creature has not been reported as actually killing any people , its appearance is a frightening one with eyewitnesses testifying to its huge head and swelling shoulders , and the fearsome groans it emits . |
| 17 | Inns and hotels recommended as overnight stopping places are marked on the diagrams by asterisks and are mentioned in the text . ’ |
| 18 | The widest possible implications must be considered when either sanctioning or preventing the application of a new biological process . |
| 19 | Each of the ‘ good ’ events can be considered as either adding to or modifying a unit of living physical matter contributing to the ultimate man , and by so doing , at the same time created a unit of ‘ goodness ’ contributing to the ever-growing power of the developing God . |
| 20 | In subsequent sections of the Report it becomes increasingly evident that , with the single exception of literature , all of these sources of experience are to be considered as potentially corrupting . |
| 21 | St Louis might well have felt that actually giving part of the domaine was going too far , but in the context of the urban problems of the 19th century the Emperor had undoubtedly judged correctly what the people needed . |
| 22 | The study has argued that naturally occurring toxins can be more dangerous than man-made pesticides , and has presented scientific data showing that glycoalkaloids , nerve-damaging toxins that occur naturally in potatoes , are present in the same levels in organic crops as in their treated fellows . |
| 23 | Again , currently there is no way , official way , of saying what plan has been made and whether the plan was met and then logging it into whatever system that you guys are going to dream up for recording what training you have given . |
| 24 | This stops them working loose as yours have done and subsequently ruining the engine . ? |
| 25 | Going and having it done and then going on holiday . |
| 26 | One programmer spent a week trying to find out what damage had been done and then putting it right . ’ |
| 27 | He took off , flying low and keeping out of sight , tilting quickly up above a treeline to check what he had seen and then tipping out of sight again . |
| 28 | But it is richly written and dramatically involving , well staged by Dallmeyer himself and designer Graham Proudfoot . |
| 29 | This is why so many businesses fail and , almost worse , why so many linger on with the craftsman under-rewarded and never developing his full potential . |
| 30 | In 1881 having expanded and temporarily using the old Chiswick Lane Chapel , they were able to acquire a freehold site off Chiswick Common Road and Fishers Lane , on which they built their ‘ L ’ shaped Mission Church and School premises . |