Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did eighty-two years of caddying and I think he was perhaps the oldest caddie still working before he finally packed it in . |
| 2 | you get out of singing that you do n't get anywhere else . |
| 3 | The evening breeze also brought the sounds of singing and he recognised the lusty bellowing of Ranulf . |
| 4 | This procedure , called reroughing ( or sometimes twicing ) takes further the idea of iterating that we met earlier in this chapter . |
| 5 | This was a means of seeing whether they looked well and that there was proper control of their curfew . |
| 6 | If the directors do state their reasons the court will investigate them to the extent of seeing whether they have acted on the right principles and will overrule their decision if they have acted on considerations which should not have weighed with them , but not merely because the court would have come to a different conclusion . |
| 7 | Nor does the statutory postponement apply for the purpose of ascertaining whether you have made a complaint to an industrial tribunal within the requisite time limit . |
| 8 | Like Dom Pérignon , Brother Oudart was interested in perfecting the art of winemaking and we know , from a record of a transaction which took place at Pierry on 9 September 1713 , that he was visited at least once by the older cellarmaster from Hautvillers . |
| 9 | The photograph would , Rose believed , be a tactful way of hinting that she did n't intend being around so much . |
| 10 | As under the 1953 Act , the onus of proving that we have good reason , lawful authority , or one of the other defences , rests squarely with us . |
| 11 | Not all cationic detergents , even those termed quaternary ammonium compounds , are capable of disinfecting although they have commercial uses as fabric softeners and conditioners . |
| 12 | An MP was this week accused of scaremongering when he warned that a European ban on tobacco advertising could bring job losses at a Darlington factory . |
| 13 | It is a condition of booking that you take out travel insurance covering emergency repatriation and holiday cancellation . |
| 14 | It 's a condition of booking that you have medical insurance valid for our watersports activities , including a 24 hour call service for repatriation to UK if necessary ; local hospital care is primitive . |
| 15 | It 's a condition of booking that you have medical insurance valid for our watersports activities , including a 24 hour call service for repatriation to UK if necessary ; local hospital care is primitive . |
| 16 | This is an aspect of weaving that I had n't thought about until I read Audrey Palmer 's book ‘ Create with Knitweave ’ . |
| 17 | If your camcorder is a two-speed machine , it will have an SP/LP selector switch which you should get into the habit of checking before you do any important recording . |
| 18 | Only when he trawled his memory of leaving the room earlier , and found there a distinct recollection of checking that he had locked the door behind him , did irritation turn to anxiety . |
| 19 | So good ways of checking that you got it right , and then you can go on comfortably with , let's have a look at erm this time you 're buying a block of gold , er |
| 20 | What has happened is a swings-and-roundabouts operation , whereby last year pensioners received more than the cost of living that they had incurred , whereas this year they will receive less . |
| 21 | Besides , I did n't think I could now save enough to make a significant difference to my standard of living when I retired , so I decided I might as well enjoy it while I had the chance . |
| 22 | I was told in my training at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that Patrick Manson , one of the school 's founders , was unsuccessfully sued by a Chinaman for loss of living when he worked in Amoy , China . |
| 23 | In Shah 's case Lord Scarman said , ‘ All that is necessary is that the purpose of living where one does [ eg , for education , employment , health , family or merely love of the place ] has a sufficient degree of continuity to be properly described as settled ’ . |
| 24 | So he s , I said to him is it alright , says am I in danger of coasting if I 've got my foot on the if , if I 'm taking the corner in first and I 'm slipping and I got the clutch , I 'm using the engine but I 've , not much |
| 25 | Finally , if you do n't already have one , beg , borrow or buy a Swiss Army knife — with its corkscrew for wine bottles , bottle-opener for beer , can-opener for tins , knife to cut through the seal on metal whisky bottle-tops that revolve instead of snapping when you try to open them , screwdriver and wire-stripper for changing plugs ( and for removing insanity-inducing ticking clocks from the headboards of Stockholm hotel beds , etc ) , even a compass for navigating home in the small hours . |
| 26 | It is a modest mark of our gratitude to those with gifts and skills of writing that we make this increase to the Public Lending Right … ’ |
| 27 | May we learn to face up to our problems and try to sort them out instead of pretending that they do n't exist or trying to run away from them . |
| 28 | This was no credit to her own piety — but what was the use of pretending that she had any piety left ? |
| 29 | There is of course no logical reason why things should be different this time , wrote Harsnet , why this too should not be an illusion , the illusion of imagining that I know not only what step to take first but also what step to take second and even what step to take third . |
| 30 | I had every intention of refusing when I interviewed you but I had read your articles . |