Example sentences of "[v-ing] something [conj] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a silver door , guarding something that 's strongly magical . |
| 2 | Would you accept that there is an element of us all preferring something that is further away from us than something that is nearer to . |
| 3 | Whereas the more ideas you get , the more things you have to look at , the more chances you 've got of getting something that 's really good and unusual . |
| 4 | What does one say to the mother who complains that sometimes her child will go on and on doing something that is not only naughty but dangerous . |
| 5 | It is ludicrous that the Government should say that airlines and other carriers should be punished for doing something that is not their job . |
| 6 | Do these experts really think that mothers are so inept that they would go on doing something that is so ineffective ? ’ |
| 7 | How could you really have witnessed that ? and when I say that finally I want to talk about terrier men because basically they 're the people who 've ruined your sport the terrier men are illegal , the terrier men are doing something that is definitely illegal in this country . |
| 8 | But if I went to Joyce and told him that his men were doing something that was n't fair to the police , trying us too hard or interfering with our time off , he 'd have his men right off that job in half an hour and there 'd be no grumbling . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm no cynic , I care about the people who work for Sarah Chester 's , I care about the ideals my grandparents believed in , about the welfare of the employees , their physical and mental well-being , their degree of satisfaction in creating something that 's positively useful and worthwhile in this world … ’ |
| 10 | You can hardly put into advertising something that is very personal to each family . ’ |