Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many ageing people need to understand and accept the changes in their sexuality in order to continue enjoying it to the full . |
| 2 | There have been some centres who felt that the American data has justified using it at an early stage . |
| 3 | The superintendents … have at least stopped using it in a noisy and disagreeable way |
| 4 | Be here on time and do your work well and I might consider hiring you on a regular basis once the child is born . ’ |
| 5 | I shall quite enjoy taming you over the next couple of weeks . ’ |
| 6 | " And I would so enjoy turning it into the best school of its kind in Frizingley . |
| 7 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 8 | Rather than give young children charcoal immediately on presentation , we suggest confining it to the few who develop symptoms — in a dose sufficient to increase elimination of the drug . |
| 9 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 10 | One they were going into a pub , and going into the toilets , you know , making a , so he had a a policeman waiting in and the toilets , for them you see , and the o one other , notable occasion he was seen chasing them down the main street in Morley , he got his cape on , you see , |
| 11 | As the women talked and asked stupid questions about his novels he imagined putting them in the next one . |
| 12 | If any other knife identified by its construction as being suitable for banning comes on the market or enters the country in some way , of course we will readily and rapidly consider adding it to the controlled list . |
| 13 | Well it 's it 's like you trying to say you 're gon na boil a pan of potatoes and you 've got ta keep turning it off every two minutes , cos it 'll be getting too hot ! |
| 14 | You want to avoid getting them in the wrong order or dropping them , so number them in the top corner , and link them together with a tag . |
| 15 | He did n't mind telling her in no uncertain terms to keep her distance from him , not that she had any inclination to do anything else , but obviously felt no compulsion to obey those rules when applied to himself . |
| 16 | I know he has done some bar work , ( hardly surprising for a pisshead like Harvey ) I remember seeing him in the Three Cups at Stamford Bridge a few years back . |
| 17 | The 1608 Lear is published by the Oxford editors because they feel it sufficiently different from the Folio version to justify seeing it as a separate aesthetic entity . |
| 18 | Charles took to Diana that weekend and began seeing her on a regular basis when they returned to London . |
| 19 | Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up . |
| 20 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 21 | Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait . |
| 22 | The French approach to North America had been rather different ; they had penetrated to the interior by the two great river systems , the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi , and began developing them as a single communications route linked by the Great Lakes and running through the hinterland west and north of the British settlements . |
| 23 | They still said that he talked much too big , but they did stop treating him as a scruffy nonentity . |
| 24 | You must stop treating me like a naughty girlfriend , for I am neither the one nor the other . |
| 25 | He began doing them in the earliest days of his career down on Coenties Slip in the late Fifties ( where the drawing classes held in Fred Mitchell 's loft became legendary ) and has kept steadily at them ever since . |
| 26 | He rebuilt the library and began stocking it with the central texts of secular and religious learning which he had made available at Bec . |
| 27 | To wash our dishes , for instance , requires placing them for a few hours in a rattan basket in the swift-flowing stream deflected through the kitchen to the left of our house . |
| 28 | Soon she began telling me of a tasteless fellow-passenger of hers who , at this time the day before , had kept his nose buried in Doctor Zhivago while they flew in exquisite weather over the Gulf of Corinth . |
| 29 | The authorities did not intend to give peasants legal parity with the other estates of the realm , but to continue treating them as a separate estate . |
| 30 | Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system . |