Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leave it to the Shepherd Gallery — long known for daring to go where on one has gone before — to unearth Vickers 's work , which clearly influenced his subway designs . |
| 2 | This can include walking to work or to the shops , jogging , skipping , swimming or dancing . |
| 3 | If only a few cases were known , they could easily be the result of an animal just happening to die when in a remote spot . |
| 4 | The amounts in rivers are tending to increase because of discharges of sewage effluents containing phosphates derived from domestic detergents . |
| 5 | They were the words he had been wanting to hear and with an exultant roar , and with both arms at once around her , he pulled her close up to him . |
| 6 | Thus a certain brinkmanship has gone on , with a hospital discharging an elderly person home , ostensibly on trial and then refusing to re-admit when in two or three days it is clear the person can not cope . |
| 7 | We 've got funding already from the housing corporation to do twenty four category one sheltered flats on this part of the site and we 'll looking to start that in late er Novem November nineteen ninety two , this year . |
| 8 | She had left home and was refusing to return because of the ‘ weird things ’ that were going on . |
| 9 | For these reasons , Coffin is perhaps better seen as a case in which the Divisional Court , contrary to the evidence , concluded that the situation was such that a breach of the peace was likely , and that the officers were seeking to prevent that at the time when the assault took place . |
| 10 | Poland 's official trade unions were refusing to sign because of a dispute over how much workers should be compensated for rising prices . |
| 11 | In the 1980s , sections of the ruling party have also adopted a strategy of attempting to co-opt or at least pacify the small black middle class . |
| 12 | ‘ We had already released the information to trade papers but we were going to wait until after Christmas to tell everyone else , ’ said spokesman George Marcall . |
| 13 | And , in a sense , we 've , just to complete what we 've been talking about so far , there 's always the question of press and magazines and house style , just to remind you that you really need to study formats if you 're going to try and as a freelance we talked about that yesterday . |
| 14 | Since cats can see , hear and smell with more sensitivity than we can , it is reassuring to find that in one respect at least we have superior sense organs . |
| 15 | ‘ So really , we have n't achieved anything by going to visit that per … to visit Eddie ? ’ |
| 16 | The Oxfordshire Williams team were always going to win but with which driver … |
| 17 | Couple this with a quality assessment system which is riddled with jargon and technical description and the caterer has a hard time deciding what he or she is going to buy and from which company . |
| 18 | And anyway I 'm going to leave that on one side now because it 's more erm a problem to reconciling Mill 's views about liberty with his views about a proper government rather than directly about governments , so I 'm just going to note that and move on now . |
| 19 | In the garden that morning she 'd thought he was going to cry because of the memory of his mother 's death . |
| 20 | Common among such problems are those of poor communication leading to distrust or of personality clashes . |
| 21 | She wound her arms about his knees and dragged him laboriously across the gravel into the safe , thick grass ; his right cheek suffered , but he was hardly going to hold that against her if he survived . |
| 22 | There was a moment when I was convinced I was going to die but at last a long wailing respiration came to my aid and I struggled painfully into a sitting position . |
| 23 | Armed with a knife he told her she was going to die and after ordering her to undress he sexually abused and raped her . |
| 24 | I knew she was going to die because of me . |
| 25 | ‘ Sir Ralph Whitton , ’ Athelstan began , ‘ received a warning that he was going to die because of a terrible act of betrayal committed in Outremer some years ago . |
| 26 | ‘ The key question is not about how bad things are going to get but about what action the Government is going to take . |
| 27 | But South Africa is not going to change because of me . ’ |
| 28 | But South Africa is not going to change because of me . ’ |
| 29 | Now that would do , that would do whether the , whether the knuckles were hurt or it was just a minor cut in the palm of the hand there , that would do and you can use the same type of bandage on the foot alright , so that 's if the hand was damaged , now supposing we did n't have the hand damaged , but we had instead a cut up here , okay , again clean it and if you clean it with lots of water always remember to dry off around the wound because bugs love a moist skin to grow in , dry the wound before you apply the dressing okay if you can , dry it off the best you can and then you 're going to place that over the cut , remember you want the pad to be long enough , big enough , okay , now she can hold this for you again , she can hold it above where the wound is and now when you bandage this one you always bandage from the narrow part to the fat part of the limb , you always bandage from the narrow to the fat , so you take the bandage down |
| 30 | So if we start going on about transport they 're going to rub that into us that we 've got owt . |