Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But we have a number of players already challenging for places ahead of him and he will be given time to acclimatise . ’ |
| 2 | If they had all spent a little of their energy cooperating with staff instead of moaning , they would have got out a lot quicker . |
| 3 | And he hopes to retain his place in tomorrow 's Premier League meeting with Middlesbrough ahead of Bruce Grobbelaar and David James . |
| 4 | And company cars are to be taxed according to price instead of engine size . |
| 5 | According to India Today of Dec. 31 a total of 3,560 people had been killed in Punjab between Jan. 1 and Dec. 11 , 1990 . |
| 6 | ‘ Why are you writing to Richard instead of telephoning him ? ’ |
| 7 | There was the usual non-stop tirade as he praised America , himself and his latest promotion , in this case a fight card at the Mirage — not in the 17,000-seat outdoor stadium where Tyson ruled but in the 4,000-seat ballroom , with tickets selling for $25 instead of $1,000 . |
| 8 | But you can achieve specific aims , and making people think about going to church instead of B & Q is a measurable objective . ’ |
| 9 | Susan shuttled to and fro between Rotterdam and London , occasionally going to Felixstowe instead of London , and making two voyages during the year between London and Stockholm . |
| 10 | One item of interest in 1923 was the purchase of a small piece of church land ( about treble green size ) to widen the approach to the fifth green by bringing into bounds more of the bushes on the right . |
| 11 | I am pleased that when it came to the crunch I tried to help the people calling for help instead of thinking about what might happen . |
| 12 | Index which was started by Littlewoods , as a rival to the immensely successful Argos stores , is moving into profit ahead of time |
| 13 | Index which was started in 1986 as a rival to the immensely successful Argos stores , is moving into profit ahead of time . |
| 14 | His coach had been parked out of sight while his white saddle horse had been tethered to a post at the roadside so that the passing soldiers would think their Emperor was riding to war instead of being carried in upholstered comfort . |
| 15 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 16 | He already knew most of the city 's different districts and its short cuts , its sudden changes of place and people ; it was just that now he would see the shop windows shining at night instead of by day , see them gliding past from a car or taxi window as he was driven home for the night . |
| 17 | Perhaps she should be reading about infidelity instead of impiety . |
| 18 | Tonson took a risk , swinging into production ahead of the event ; and this time he was caught out . |
| 19 | Wallowing in self-pity instead of fighting back . |
| 20 | Last summer , he was falsely accused of inciting Kinnock 's displeasure by going fishing in Norway instead of attending to his duties as campaign coordinator . |
| 21 | But the the the railway stock was in such a bad state , that that 's when people started the real activists of the Labour movement really started talking about confiscation instead of compensation . |
| 22 | It was his strongly expressed desire to annex the Grand Duchy of Tuscany to the hereditary provinces of the monarchy which at least in part prevented the putting into force there of the constitution of 1782 . |
| 23 | Arriving in Cyprus ahead of Othello , an understandably nervous Desdemona is forced to hang around on the quay and , in an effortful charade of lightheartedness , swap bawdy banter with Iago and company . |
| 24 | A MAN told the High Court sitting in Glasgow yesterday of an ordeal at an Argyll quarry during which he had been repeatedly beaten , burnt with a cigarette , had a car driven over his legs and almost hanged . |
| 25 | She really ought to be thinking of work instead of calling Fernando Serra 's bluff . |