Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I discovered that they virtually ran a bird hospital and I was soon bringing them more casualties and learning a lot of useful things about bird-keeping and care . |
| 2 | Rough ground needs care for 70 yards until the roof drops and further progress is possible only by crawling ; here amateur explorers must turn back to daylight , lack of experience denying them further access into a waterfall chamber and eventual emergence at Calf Holes . |
| 3 | Some had worked out that their tiny ones were costing them over £200 a month . |
| 4 | This ensured that our customers not only complied with , but had taken positive preventative action to implement procedures and controls in advance of these new regulations , saving them both time and money today . |
| 5 | SunSoft officials like Jim Billmaier were surprised that the eight-points included in the statement were committed to paper , believing them only discussion items for an independent software vendor rally held at PC Expo in New York City last week . |
| 6 | And your witless behaviour is causing me more trouble in the end . |
| 7 | The list price for the Tradesman Drill Bit Sharpener is £32.98 , but we are offering it for only £28.95 , saving you over £4 . |
| 8 | The week is costing him around £800 , but he is helped by discounted food and drink bills at Augusta and the reduced cost of staying with local people . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm meeting him tomorrow night for a chat . ’ |
| 10 | Nor would he learn anything from the journal unless Meg gave him the key to it ; for the cypher was a special one , transforming itself constantly page by page as the journal progressed . |
| 11 | Jill 's phoning you tomorrow morning . |
| 12 | Both Child and Douglas-Hamilton were worried that in rushing to beat the rains the task force was not allowing itself enough time for preparation . |
| 13 | Stamford are improving their already rad facilities — more street stuff , a fun box with a handrail . |
| 14 | I shook my head and bent back to my work , but every now and again , as I was writing or just thinking , a niggling little side-track thought would distract me , and I 'd find myself remembering Janice 's words , and wondering what exactly Uncle Rory might have hidden within his later work ( if he really had hidden anything ) . |
| 15 | I would like to propose a toast to Annabelle and Steven , wishing them much joy and happiness for their future together . |
| 16 | Thank you for sending me further information on your ideas that could give Blaenau Ffestiniog 's market hall a new lease of life appropriate to the Twenty-First Century . |
| 17 | There was not a lot of point in bringing these gifts , since her father 's allotment kept them well supplied with fresh vegetables ( although he did not grow sweet peas , considering them more trouble than they were worth ) . |
| 18 | I suppose that 's your way of punishing me for kissing you yesterday evening . |
| 19 | Scientific and Engineering Software Inc , now calling itself simply SES , is expected to join the client/server object-oriented programming rush in January with a program called objectbench , a Unix-based object-oriented analysis toolset for C and C++ developers . |
| 20 | and he , he just goes around thumping , kicking and , and going berserk during drama and the teacher just looks on and says calm down and I mean in view of the fact I 've written to the school and complained about , but you 'd think they would be keeping an eye and he hates drama so much and it , he 's got drama tomorrow , if he has any trouble tomorrow morning I 'm not sending him tomorrow afternoon I 'm gon na start keeping him home and if they ask why I 'm gon na say because you ca n't control your classes and you wo n't want to now |
| 21 | There were no jobs advertised locally so she wrote a letter to the head librarian , sending her C V. There were still no jobs available , so Susan offered her services voluntarily when the library was moving a section to another part of the building . |
| 22 | I now realise what I have been missing , it is a very good magazine for knitters and I shall in future be buying it very month . |
| 23 | NERVOUS parents are already calling it Home Loan 2 . |
| 24 | Sir Terence , in particular , is still furious that inflation bounced back into double figures , after all the pain of getting it below 5% in the mid-1980s , and ascribes it to the delay in joining the EMS . |
| 25 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 30 times , moving it about 3ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 26 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 35 times , moving it about 3ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 27 | I do n't like , just , I could n't be like Deirdre and , put me overall on and in go in without collecting me thoughts getting myself together Deirdre never arrives till about three minutes before she gets in the door , she 's putting her overall on saying come on ladies , its time were , but she 's putting her overall and on , and they all sit there looking at her and so |
| 28 | Yes but if I 'm doing nothing else Monday . |
| 29 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |
| 30 | Hard-up parents are giving them less pocket money . |