Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a moment , she seemed to find what she was looking for and stepped up to the door . |
| 2 | At the same time Common Market food surpluses moulder away all over Europe , and Geldof rounding upon and ranting rudely at those responsible — on the floor of the European parliament — did n't even provoke a blush from those portly and clarety gents . |
| 3 | It also follows that in looking at whether to call in , Ministers do not consider the planning merits of the proposal , but only whether the kind of issues that need to be decided are more appropriate for consideration in a wider than local context by the Secretary of State . |
| 4 | As their retirement counselling manager explained , Legal and General has over one million people either paying towards or drawing out pensions , so it makes sense for them to offer pre-retirement courses which are paid for either by the individuals themselves or their employers . |
| 5 | There he was in all his splendour , gazing blithely out of society-column illustrations , going into or coming out of some swank nightspot or other , with a gorgeous girl on either arm . |
| 6 | The away end bogs , according to who was forced to abandon half-times plans for a piss , are Heysel revisited — one narrow tunnel going into and coming out of the place was crammed with hundreds of fans all going in and out at the same time , plus a few old bills looking on saying helpfully ‘ I should n't do that if I were you . |
| 7 | But if you did n't have an A licence , most firms that had got their own vehicles could get a C licence which allowed them to keep th take their own goods in er er that they used for their own practices to wherever they were going to but did n't y allow you to take anybody else 's . |
| 8 | These include meal times , evening , going to and getting up from bed . |
| 9 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 10 | Try to sort of keep in mind what you 're aiming for but do n't rush getting there . |
| 11 | Professional and pecuniary plans meet with success so long as you know what you 're aiming for and do n't let others undermine you . |
| 12 | Proposals for spending cuts totalling 9,000 million kronor ( US$1,660 million ) were put forward on Nov. 5 ; a reduction of value added tax ( VAT ) from 25 per cent to 18 per cent on a range of basic goods and services on Nov. 6 ; reductions in the tax on capital income from 30 per cent to 25 per cent and a similar reduction in the tax on share profits on Nov. 8 ; and the privatization of 35 major state-owned companies in stages from early 1992 onwards and the lifting of restrictions on foreign investors buying into or taking over Swedish companies on Nov. 11 . |
| 13 | Despite the difficulties of getting into and travelling around many of these countries — due to poor roads , curfews , civil wars , monsoons — researchers often uncover information and testimony they would never otherwise obtain . |
| 14 | Faith coming before and bringing about healing is as real to many Christians today as it was at the time of the Gospel . |
| 15 | Noting that rats tend naturally to be either left- or right-pawed in reaching for and picking up their food , he constrained them to reach for their food with the non-preferred paw and reported changes in RNA and protein synthesis in the region and side of the brain responsible for the motor coordination of the ‘ learning ’ paw compared with the ‘ non-learning ’ side . |
| 16 | The first seven miles of this journey are extremely arduous : there is no path and progress is a struggle through tussocky grass , tough heather and naked peat hags , keeping to the clifftops where possible but often unavoidably descending into and scrambling out of the coves and gullies that break the ramparts , as well as fording the streams entering the sea from the moorlands of the interior . |
| 17 | This breadth of preparing for and following up a development plan should then , suggests the Project Team , be broken down into detailed action plans with specific targets for the following year . |
| 18 | ‘ I heard from friends of mine that Hezbollah had lost faith in him , that he was talking to and seeing too many people . |
| 19 | After being at the Refuge on Saturday she woke early on Sunday morning , head crowded with things that needed thinking about and sorting out . |
| 20 | As they moved out onto the entrance steps , they saw a breakdown wagon thundering by and raising up dust in the square . |