Example sentences of "a [adj] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that 's and you said , if you erm do n't er sweat a little in making the load , you will sweat a tremendous amount when you were busy pitching it into the into the stack . |
| 2 | They handle their vehicles with the care that comes form many years experience behind the wheel … a definite plus making your journey smooth and carefree . |
| 3 | You can avoid having to perform a reset by including a line such as : at the beginning of your error handling routine . |
| 4 | This is not surprising : even Pilâtre de Rozier , the French balloonist , once filled his mouth with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen with a few to blowing the gases into a flame . |
| 5 | That 's what he said , that 's a different from condemning it . |
| 6 | Lewis , who served his apprenticeship in Scotland before heading south to Sellafield , worked as a chargehand before becoming a foreman in charge of a team of 20 painters . |
| 7 | She said later : ‘ I gave the officer a ticking-off for calling me love . ’ |
| 8 | Well it so happens that I did intend you to do a paramount of talking this afternoon , so it 's quite convenient in a way that we are being recorded . |
| 9 | He and others set up a rival ‘ underground ’ publication , the Shilling Paper , which , though a great success on its own terms , was useless as a credential for getting straight on to a Fleet Street paper such as the Sunday Times . |
| 10 | The first reason for McElroy 's unease is that President Reagan has just told him to prepare a brief for doing away with his own job — and that of most of the other 1100 people on the administrator 's staff . |
| 11 | This payment was a fine for disturbing the deer when they were supposed to be fawning . |
| 12 | This resulted in a hefty fine being imposed by the county FA , on top of a fine for fielding an ineligible player during the match at Twitchit Albion . |
| 13 | He was looking at a fine for parking too long on a meter at the Pier Head and it was for the staggering sum of £720 . |
| 14 | Oh that looks a white for doing a pee . |
| 15 | You are a natural for taking on positions of power and authority but sometimes you act like a domestic Goat instead of the mountain variety and allow yourself to become tethered to some safe little post . |
| 16 | He pressed his arms to his side and leaned forward on a diagonal without falling over . |
| 17 | Koti works at night as well , and so we both get home late — but we always have a natter before going to bed , no matter how late . |
| 18 | How what kind of a Prior to living on the flats , erm what kind of accommodation have you lived in ? |
| 19 | There seems to be a failing in getting yet another important message across from manufacturers to fishkeeper , and that is the field of filtration . |
| 20 | He was never tempted to see ‘ bishops ’ as a key for locking the door on dissenters . |
| 21 | The input to the lexicon building process is a list of items containing , for each item , a written form , one or more transcriptions in MRPA units ( see Appendix 1 ) , and a key for accessing syntactic information . |
| 22 | Woosnam failed from eight feet or less on four of the opening six holes , and it proved crucial as Ogle rattled in four birdies in a 69 before snatching the biggest win of his career . |
| 23 | Oh cos you 've got ta have a good in kicking |
| 24 | Er and therefore the the overall effect is a more of spreading the traffic than simply it all appearing on one route . |
| 25 | The left-armer denied himself a sixth by wasting a cowardly bouncer on Malcolm . |
| 26 | Taking his jacket from the floor she opened his wallet and took out two twenties and a ten before returning the wallet to the inside pocket . |
| 27 | Such explanations fail to acknowledge the possibility that schools may a responsible for creating and sustaining disruptiveness . |
| 28 | The Parliamentary Accounts committee has recently given English Heritage a roasting for having produced a slash-and-dash strategy document last autumn without having consulted any of the relevant professional bodies . |
| 29 | I thought he was joking but it was a far from laughing matter . |
| 30 | It could be a flatter of setting up a new plant , opening a new market , launching a new product or turning around a failing company that has been acquired . |