Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resolving to pass them on to someone else as soon as possible , Robert took hold of both locket and manuscript and put them in his jacket pocket . |
| 2 | But at the same time I 've got a cartoon girl I 'm dying to get it on with . |
| 3 | Is your boss still being sympathetic about your problems , or is he itching to get you back to the office ? ’ |
| 4 | He untied the stern line , kneeling to lead it back round a pile to the cockpit . |
| 5 | Both versions will be in the UK this April , with the saloon looking to tempt everything up to Lexus buyers with an all-in price of around £28,000 and the coupe out on its own at around £30,000 . |
| 6 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 7 | She rocked the baby in her arms , refusing to put her down for a minute , and she sang snatches of lullabies she remembered her mother singing so many years ago . |
| 8 | Ollie was simply seeking to put him back in his place and enforce his right to control relations , situations and possessions . |
| 9 | The white boys admire the cheek of the black lad who nicks their Kentucky'n'chips , as well as wanting to beat him up for it , just as many of them secretly envy and try to emulate the black street style which at another level they experience as so invasive . |
| 10 | ‘ Narcissist , ’ I said , wanting to get her back into the subject ; but she dropped it . |
| 11 | Been wanting to get them off for hours . |
| 12 | ‘ I was n't able to defend myself at all , I was just wanting to get it over with . ’ |
| 13 | Ian Norrie : ‘ I was just wanting to get it over with ’ |
| 14 | When demand and supply are in stable equilibrium , if any accident should move the scale of production from its equilibrium position , there will be instantly brought into play forces tending to push it back to that position ; just as , if a stone hanging by a string is displaced from its equilibrium position , the force of gravity will at once tend to bring it back to its equilibrium position . |
| 15 | This is a similar fallacy to that of those in my profession who are constantly aspiring to bring everybody up to the average . |
| 16 | You will be there from the time it opens in the morning , until the evening , when our coach will be waiting to drive you back to your hotel . |
| 17 | You will be there from the time it opens in the morning , until the evening , when your coach will be waiting to drive you back to your hotel . |
| 18 | You will be there from the time it opens in the morning until the evening , when your coach will be waiting to drive you back to your hotel . |
| 19 | It is simply going to drive him out of a livelihood , and increases the amount of consumer junk left around in lane and layby . |
| 20 | A French galley will pick her up off the coast of the Forth and take her out to the sea where other ships are waiting to escort her back to France . |
| 21 | They reckoned They was going to pull it down after the War . |
| 22 | Really , I do n't think anybody in the crowd of just over eleven thousand thought United were going to pull anything out of that game . |
| 23 | Are you going to stand them up for me Tim ? |
| 24 | I 'm not going to bail him out by jumping into the car . |
| 25 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 26 | He was down and sometimes it seemed as if nothing was going to shake him out of it , apart from a laugh at someone else 's expense or a shared moment of despair . |
| 27 | If you 're going to sum it up in one word ? |
| 28 | ’ He was going to sell you back to me . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , do n't think you 're going to talk me out of having it out with her . |
| 30 | In my imagination , I was going to pick you up in a fury of emotion , toss you down on that bed — ’ |