Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course although we 're talking about dying and nobody wants to think about dying let's remind ourselves it 's the only certainty in this life . |
| 2 | Even if it is not a must , it is often worth applying as it helps the marker do a better job , in particular because he can use electronic tools to provide data that will aid his judgement . |
| 3 | This last point is worth amplifying as it does affect the poetry . |
| 4 | Lucker falls asleep after commenting that he does n't want to see how mini-cab drivers supplement their incomes . |
| 5 | She dramatically resigned after hearing that he has been invited to speak at the Green party conference next month . |
| 6 | MATRIARCH Emma Funnell has banished Andrew Jones , husband of her great grand-daughter Peggy , from her Bramble House home after learning that he has swindled the car firm of thousands , helping him buy a house for his mistress , Rosie Milburn . |
| 7 | Often , even after insisting that everyone goes back to the launch point , there will be barely enough people to hold all the gliders down , turn them around and re-park them if the wind changes . |
| 8 | In this connexion it is worth remembering that it takes a little longer to change where cymbals are concerned ( owing to the way in which they are held ) but from bass drum to side-drum , triangle , or tambourine , or from any of these to any other , is a matter of seconds . |
| 9 | But as I say , I 'm a loyal person and I 'll wait and make his life worth living when he comes out . |
| 10 | But he can rarely know whether or not the policeman has good grounds for acting as he does , and in so far as there is a conflict between the citizen and the policeman , the reasonable suspicions of the policeman must take priority . |
| 11 | In Shah 's case Lord Scarman said , ‘ All that is necessary is that the purpose of living where one does [ eg , for education , employment , health , family or merely love of the place ] has a sufficient degree of continuity to be properly described as settled ’ . |
| 12 | And he 's so scared of ageing that he tries every anti-wrinkle cream available . |
| 13 | I think its because erm I do n't , I 'm not happy with mine because it it shows signs of ageing and it reminds me that I 'm getting older and I do n't like that |
| 14 | If we can never be certain that we have stated every objective we might have , in the clearest form , and with the most practical means of testing whether it has been achieved , this does not mean that we abandon the attempt or that to try one 's best under the circumstances is not a helpful activity . |
| 15 | This last provision looks so sweeping that there is a danger of supposing that it has swept away all difference between legal and equitable rights . |
| 16 | Discretion is the ‘ liberty of deciding as one thinks fit , absolutely or within limits . ’ |
| 17 | This is the safest position after an accident as it prevents your child 's tongue falling back and obstructing his airway and avoids the risk of choking if he vomits . |
| 18 | But the Nikkei Industrial Daily sounds a note of warning for NEC : there are two pitfalls for the company with the current order , it says : the sheer difficulty of running a development project to create the mainframe software that makes up the ‘ Fourth Online System ’ — people involved with the development of Third Online Systems predicted the end of such enormous projects ; and the danger of overlooking the trend towards downsizing because it devotes too much time and too many resources on the project . |
| 19 | ‘ But assuming that the Queen 's health continues to be good , Prince Charles will be well into middle age himself , and will be very aware that history could repeat itself if he puts William through all those ghastly years of waiting that he has gone through . |
| 20 | erm , and , and seems a lot better generally so , you know , just a question of waiting until somebody comes |
| 21 | Namely , one of waiting until she has represented Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup . |
| 22 | However , it is not unusual to see pilots take off towards a heavy rain shower on a good soaring day instead of waiting until it has passed . |
| 23 | All of which is a roundabout way of saying that what matters in this world is asking the right questions , rather than knowing the right answers . |
| 24 | When we squeeze the Devil out through the front door , we unwittingly let in all sorts of secular ideologies that masquerade as Christian ones ( which is just another way of saying that he comes in again through the back door ) . |
| 25 | Perhaps the charge that attitudinism makes ethics peculiarly irrational is merely a way of saying that it denies that there is such a thing as objective ethical truth . |
| 26 | This is just another way of saying that it has 3ml of alcohol in every 100ml . |
| 27 | One major difference in the auction business between America and Britain is the amount of travelling that one does : in one week one may do an ‘ appraisal day ’ ( the equivalent of the British Antiques Road Show ) in Pennsylvania and then go on to look at a dinner service in Baltimore . |
| 28 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 29 | He submits that the true purpose of this Act was to meet the mischief of hacking as he defines it . |
| 30 | In reading , or being read to , one has the security of knowing that one has the ability to withdraw from the emotional situation as soon as one wishes or needs to do so . |