Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are interested please contact Margaret or Hilda at the Office — NOW — Overnight accommodation can be arranged for anyone travelling long distance . |
| 2 | Until recently , it was assumed that the section would operate only where the pursuer had a specific Conclusion in his Summons seeking provisional damages , but a recent opinion of Lord McCluskey is to the effect that the pursuer can make an application that his case be treated as one seeking provisional damages at any stage during the case . |
| 3 | Instead his hands were eagerly outstretched , and she moved towards him knowing that life could hold no greater happiness than this . |
| 4 | Her teeth caught in her trembling lower lip for a moment . |
| 5 | Cos I think he 's sort of realized now that nobody 's particularly impressed by him taking six grammes and twelve Es at once and going oh I took six grammes of and twelve Es at once and I was really fucked . |
| 6 | The book has a satisfying pattern and a unity one would n't expect in anything covering that span of years and when Simon , at the end , wanted to leave the creeper as it was , the wheel had turned full circle . |
| 7 | ‘ My work , ’ he says , ‘ depends upon my having some kind of … depth . |
| 8 | Eidesis came upon me trapping both layers into a third internal one . |
| 9 | This idea potentially oversimplifies the actual process of offering vulnerable people choices which might result in their leading fuller lives . |
| 10 | This may result in his experiencing conflicting approaches and being given contradictory advice . |
| 11 | Ember would n't even tell her what from , but she could sense through the flux of data that came from her paling blue awareness that the others had something planned for her , something that she did n't want . |
| 12 | that came from someone doing this sort of thing . |
| 13 | However , do remember that if suppleness exercise is done without it inducing heavier breathing and an increased heart-rate ( for example , yoga ) this will do very little for increasing your stamina . |
| 14 | Jody perhaps you could like would like to think , if you want us to listen to your playing this afternoon I would like you to listen to what I have to say this morning please . |
| 15 | All the same , I said , if they came across anyone fitting that description in their care , please would they tell George Burley his name and room number . |
| 16 | ‘ 1(2) In determining whether a person is a fit and proper person to hold any particular position , regard shall be had to his probity , to his competence and soundness of judgement for fulfilling the responsibilities of that position , to the diligence with which he is fulfilling or likely to fulfil those responsibilities and to whether the interests of depositors or potential depositors of the institution are , or are likely to be , in any way threatened by his holding that position . |
| 17 | Why was Roger Seelig told by someone giving medical advice several months after his trial began that he was on the verge of a mental breakdown , yet last week he was roaring up the M4 in his Porsche to look after his two properties ? |
| 18 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
| 19 | Ever since Ben Jonson people have thought of him piping native woodnotes wild and not being terribly educated . |
| 20 | Ever since Ben Jonson people have thought of him piping native woodnotes wild and not being terribly educated . |
| 21 | However , Howe was turning into an alcoholic owing to his frequenting many alehouses around Edinburgh and this , coupled with his deafness , meant he was preyed upon by unscrupulous acquaintances so that when he died in 1836 at Newhaven , near Edinburgh , he was almost a pauper . |
| 22 | Christian Aid has agreed to my taking three months ' unpaid leave , and the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth has kindly awarded me a bursary to cover costs of travel . |
| 23 | The middle class families handed on their accumulating industrial wealth within a system of partible inheritance which demanded a more severe morality , imposing higher standards upon women than upon men . |
| 24 | I have written to one or two retail outlets complaining about them selling these fish , also spoken to a couple of managers but they are still selling these fish . |
| 25 | I 'm not saying that I wo n't win World and Olympic titles , just that , at this time , I can not conceive of myself achieving that time . |
| 26 | That 's why I would n't bet against him nicking that point . ’ |
| 27 | When all the C F C gas has been collected the cooling flask around this coil is replaced with one containing boiling water . |
| 28 | Of course , my attitude may stem from my having certain beliefs , but these beliefs are not part of what is actually expressed by the sentence , and do not pertain to that which someone else must share with me , in order for it to be logically proper for him to assent to my sentence . |
| 29 | Finally , to the extent that political authority is justified by its ability to co-ordinate the activities of large populations , the vindication of its claim to authority over any one individual may depend on its having legitimate authority over the population at large . |
| 30 | They took it as a snub that Down failed to field at anything approaching full strength and now want to show that they are a match for the real thing . |