Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
| 2 | They really are a very vibrant organization , and er , I think we really would wish them well , and , and very pleasing to see them adapting to the new circumstances . |
| 3 | Bonington was impressed with the Darc Star climbers when he met them training on the Scottish peaks last winter . |
| 4 | You do n't want them emerging with the queasy feeling they could get whacked over the head on their way back to the car . |
| 5 | There may be some delays , because we have to process them according to the normal procedures , but there will not be any undue delays . |
| 6 | The ‘ plot ’ has him searching for the lost chord , which is about as banal as you can get , but the contributors look interesting George Harrison , Charlie Rich , Betty Wright , John Sebastian , Rufus Thomas and Billy Swan are among them . |
| 7 | The next day found her driving round the busy , bustling city of Sheffield , desperately trying to keep one eye on the traffic , and the other on the directions scrawled on a piece of paper . |
| 8 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |
| 9 | 1966 found him guesting with the amazing Captain Beefheart on The Magic Band 's first album of psychotic psychedelic blues , ‘ Safe As Milk ’ . |
| 10 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 11 | When she got out of bed , she found him sitting on the top stair , listening to Dad and Mother downstairs in the kitchen , and crying . |
| 12 | When they entered his rooms , in answer to his hearty ‘ Come in ! ’ they found him sitting in the broken armchair , surrounded by books , his feet comfortably supported by a small wooden stool . |
| 13 | Alex recounted her meeting with the young painter and they laughed together . |
| 14 | She was surprised to find it rising for the third time , but though it hardened she knew it would take an age to bring it to orgasm . |
| 15 | Earlier we find little trace of it generally , and so we ought not to be surprised to find it missing from the ordinary Person 's consciousness of time in those days . |
| 16 | It is selected from the pages of the BDN , to which he was a frequent contributor and on whose editorial board he served for a long period : A combined system is one which includes all useful methods and techniques and adapts them and uses them according to the particular needs of the child . |
| 17 | He 's seen me talking to the great Walter Schellenberg . |
| 18 | Their main concern was that independent arbitration would drag out negotiations and prevent them complying with the MMC proposals to free pubs from the tie by the deadline of November 1992 . |
| 19 | –One would show them falling at the usual speed and hear the laughs . ’ |
| 20 | Let him picture her pottering in the improvised chaos of a damp , windowless room … |
| 21 | She could feel him shrinking by the second . |
| 22 | Dropping the bedding in her arms she held on to him and probably prevented him falling from the narrow landing down the stairway . |
| 23 | She denied it but did not tell him she had seen him fighting with the pedlar or that the man had chased her and Oliver in Nice . |
| 24 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 25 | However , the controversy obscured the clear military fact that Operation ‘ Apache Snow ’ was not intended to hold territory , but rather to keep the NVA occupied and thereby prevent it moving into the coastal provinces . |
| 26 | And because I do n't want you living in the same house as someone who might be a murderer . |
| 27 | He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope . |
| 28 | Shipmasters long ago found that their societies are never likely to help them owing to the inevitable scattering of members and the indifference which distance begets . |
| 29 | They moved on , down the cathedral-like space , soaring columns that dwarfed them disappearing into the swirling mist . |
| 30 | In our ignorance we interpret them according to the prevailing cultural myths . |