Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every few months Hugh de Tracy would mutter about seeing to the building of a proper barbican over the postern . |
| 2 | I also think that having to report back would assist with dealing with the many , many people who have complained about the state of our footpaths network but individual complaints and with user groups and we 're off to see representatives out of County Council , they 're not here today but they 're off to hear it at our Committee meetings and I do think that having an officially report back to the Environment Committee would assist in meeting their requirements would be good P R. Thank you . |
| 3 | Each of these things will assist in turning off the stress tap . |
| 4 | I must admit , I do enjoy over indulging on the Christmas pudding as well ! |
| 5 | He emphasized that respectable ratepayers would object to contributing to the cost of giving artificial security to their neighbours ' looseness of life . |
| 6 | You can not concentrate on reading from a book and also on SAS ‘ listening ’ with undivided attention . |
| 7 | I can not simply advise you to go out and buy without trying for the simple reason that it can be very slow on anything less than a really fast machine . |
| 8 | But it is by no means difficult if one has a procedure for social research and this procedure we shall now consider by working from an empirical approach to enquiry . |
| 9 | She prayed they would not think of looking under the bed . |
| 10 | ‘ Church people were all too often narrow-minded , censorious , judgemental , intolerant , conventional … so the people for whom the world was too harsh would never think of turning to the Church … |
| 11 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 12 | I scooped them up before he could think of asking for a receipt and zippered them into a jacket pocket . |
| 13 | Justifying the railway deficit in 1980 , for example , the chairman maintained that ‘ no one would think of talking of the deficit of the armed forces or of the fact that our state educational establishments show a deficit … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What did you do about going on the stage ? ’ |
| 15 | This is probably our favourite spot and you can choose between sitting in the sun or shade ; it 's a very peaceful place to unwind and enjoy the view of the garden " , says Barbara . |
| 16 | And how did you feel about moving from the Nissan hut into a brand new house ? |
| 17 | In my own research into books and reading I have had classes of 15-year-olds write essays on the subject of how they would feel about working in a bookshop . |
| 18 | What do you feel about working in the more modern style of play after your classical work with Stratford ? |
| 19 | You may feel like looking behind the sofa . |
| 20 | She had had every opportunity to be , for heaven 's sake , but she 'd never worked hard enough at it and now she did not feel like struggling with a foreign language to search for an item when she did not even know what she was looking for . |
| 21 | From the boardwalks of Atlantic City and on to Route 66 , visiting the U.S. really does feel like walking into an old familiar scene , says Bernice Davison , Travel Editor |
| 22 | Well that 's it , if you do n't feel like walking round the town tomorrow . |
| 23 | She did n't much feel like sitting beside the pool and simply shouting to Ana . |
| 24 | Buzz did not feel like sitting in the small lounge at the Eastbourne hotel , which contained a great many genteel , inquisitive , elderly ladies , all of whom seemed to be knitting . |
| 25 | I can speak with feeling about the frustrations I experienced trying to obtain a suitable movement here . |
| 26 | In Darcy 's Utopia we will make do with listening to the radio . |
| 27 | So , at best , they will have to make do with tuning into the programme in stereo . |
| 28 | You look as if you could do with collapsing on a sofa . ’ |
| 29 | Those who do no have the time to go to a La Scala performance or are visiting out of season , must make do with going to the theatre museum ; this normally , but not always , includes a trip to the auditorium . |
| 30 | Those who were not participating in this type of research had to make do with walking in the oh so prolific Manchester rain , holding pillow-fighting competitions or otherwise bear the dreadful timetabled events . |