Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver was a whiny child , partly , I think , because Nonni had set ideas about bringing up babies which involved feeding them at set hours and leaving them to cry in between . |
| 2 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 3 | So Patsy tried dipping it in cold tea first . |
| 4 | Number one is , I do n't like using it on wet grass . |
| 5 | With many types of sailing holiday spread around different resorts in Greece , Turkey or Sardinia , it 's difficult to avoid boring you with repeated descriptions . |
| 6 | ‘ And all the money your dad spent sending you to public school , ’ said Constance . |
| 7 | We began sorting them into different area sizes as we were getting confused with those we had and did n't have . |
| 8 | ‘ Most tenants were very happy with their existing range , and their biggest fear was that we would stop supplying them with Bass beers . |
| 9 | Many people think you can only do what the punchcard tells you to do but , being me , I always try to get as much as I can from them — even with a lace card I 'll try knitting it in different ways . |
| 10 | A more extreme tactic is to start addressing them in similar vein — using ‘ my dear ’ or something worse back ( at a seminar I attended , ‘ baby ’ was suggested … but if it 's your boss you 're dealing with you may need to decide whether your job 's worth it ) . |
| 11 | It was a bulky volume to carry around and my RAF friends used to rib me about my " vest pocket edition " , but I had resolved to keep reading it in spare moments to remind me of my real life . |
| 12 | ‘ If there 's not a properly controlled Government cull , fishermen are going to start shooting them from open boats and you are going to end up with injured seals . |
| 13 | The monstrous irony is that as long as he does n't place bolts nobody will bother accusing him of environmental vandalism . |
| 14 | This short sleeved trouser suit looks cool and elegant in pastel pink — try wearing it with dark colours , and stand out in the crowd . |
| 15 | And Larder , who was Goulding 's mentor on the 1990 tour to New Zealand , warns that he must control the wild instincts which keep getting him into hot water . |
| 16 | With very fine seed try mixing it with fine silver sand to ensure the seeds are not sown too closely . |
| 17 | One possibility would be for the analyst to invent a large number of sentences and try saying them with different intonation patterns ( i.e. different combinations of head and tone ) , noting what attitude was supposed to correspond to the intonation in each case ; of course , the results are then very subjective , and based on an artificial performance that has little resemblance to conversational speech . |
| 18 | " Do n't go ruining it with hot cups . " |
| 19 | He had my note , but he kept putting it in safe places then forgetting where he 'd put it . |
| 20 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 21 | The patient had first become aware of the symptoms six weeks after a hakim had started treating him for atopic eczema . |
| 22 | Island Graphics says it has added multimedia features to IslandPresents , the graphics packages it introduced back at Uniforum , and has started delivering it for Sparc-based systems fitted with Open Look and Open Windows 3.0 . |
| 23 | ‘ Start lecturing me on bad manners . |
| 24 | I also think restricting it to just Premiership players is a good idea |
| 25 | You are already familiar with the mathematical operations curl , div , and grad ( I prefer using them in vector-operator form ) , and you need no introduction to the concepts of electricity . |
| 26 | Their working lives ( up to about fifteen hours ) can be maximised if you handle them with care , so avoid subjecting them to mechanical shocks when in use ; switch off and allow them to cool before moving them around on the set . |
| 27 | But in today 's lean property market , homebuyers could start putting them to good use . |
| 28 | Close your eyes and you just ca n't help imagining him in Dirty Dancing . |