Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989 we were assured there was no , absolutely no , case for electrifying between Edinburgh and Glasgow : . |
| 2 | He bought a white 1964 Rover 2.6 Litre and spent much time speeding between Morrissey 's Kensington pad Manchester . |
| 3 | And what he said , prophesying about the future , saying what would happen in the future in this case . |
| 4 | Ribbons of light spoked across the alley , glimmering through the interstices of an unfurled bamboo blind stretched across an entrance . |
| 5 | As a child he played records to his parents from an adjacent room , darting between the two to make sure they were paying attention . |
| 6 | Rachel 's face glistened in the gloom as she urged herself to her climax — sweat and staring eyes , tongue darting between dry lips , breath panting . |
| 7 | There was a tight thicket of new , thorny growth in the clearing , a bird darting between the branches picking at the red and blue berries that hung from the twigs . |
| 8 | But seeing off Michael Meacher proved substantially easier than seeing off the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 9 | But seeing off Michael Meacher proved substantially easier than seeing off the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 10 | In Ayr , the second most marginal seat in the United Kingdom , Phil Gallie , the successor to George Younger , held on by 85 votes seeing off Labour who were thought certain to seize the seat . |
| 11 | WIGAN fought all the way before seeing off Workington Town 's hopes of a historic first semi-final place in today 's Regal Trophy draw . |
| 12 | Midst a lot of no-balls , which helped no end , they picked their way though the furious gunfire , finding the odd boundary , encouraging each other , and finally seeing off the follow-on a ball before tea . |
| 13 | Jockey Ron Treloggen 's only problem was seeing off the unwelcome attentions of a loose horse , Forest Ranger , who stuck to him like glue all the way from Becher 's Brook to the winning line . |
| 14 | The concern of the authorities is that a dominant firm will price aggressively in those markets where it faces actual or potential competition with the intention of seeing off the competition . |
| 15 | As to direct selling , she believed that seeing off the threat of publishers was even easier : ‘ No publisher can supply all the books a school needs . ’ |
| 16 | It 's Twickenham once more for Bicester RFC who are through to the final again after seeing off Altrincham Kersal in the semis . |
| 17 | ( WES ) After seeing off Tranmere last night , they 'll now face Leicester for a place in the Premier League . |
| 18 | They looked impressive in seeing off Malahide in the semi-final and the five-pronged bowling attack will most likely be unchanged for the final , which begins on Saturday . |
| 19 | After the interval the all-female Mix-ups team moved into top gear seeing off the challenges of Martin 's Babes and Coshquin Exiles . |
| 20 | Bangor , beaten for the first time last week , will be keen to bounce back to winning ways by seeing off Ruthin , who welcome back bowler Owen Hughes following a finger injury . |
| 21 | We can imagine animals like these darting through the undergrowth in search of food while the colossal reptiles lumbered obliviously around them . |
| 22 | While eating we watched a variety of cheeky small birds darting through the restaurant , picking up tasty crumbs of freshly baked bread and croissants or dipping their long narrow beaks around the lid of the sugar bowl when the waiters were n't looking . |
| 23 | But , even as she thought it , she rejected the question and felt a surge of anger go darting through her . |
| 24 | His hands brushed her breasts , already ripe beneath her blouse , sending shafts of electricity darting through her . |
| 25 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 26 | And reducing the amount of time spent on figures enables them to concentrate on reviewing and forecasting for the group . |
| 27 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 28 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 29 | For instance , annual sales forecasting for a manufacturing activity undertaking a wide variety of large complex engineering work on a unit and small batch basis may be carried out using a combination of queuing , scheduling and inventory based methods . |
| 30 | For instance , the high rate of scientific and technological development in the field of semiconductors during the past two or three decades has meant that technological forecasting has become a crucial part of sales and market forecasting for companies manufacturing electronic and telecommunication products , computers etc . |