Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having dealt with the general principles of the UCTA it is now possible to analyse its effect in detail on various contractual relationships using as a framework the definitions and different combinations of the factors set out above in the section devoted to the basic rationale of the UCTA . |
| 2 | After one session filming from a helicopter the cameraman 's limbs were so stiff he was ‘ locked ’ into a sitting position and had to be carried to safety and warmth . |
| 3 | If he has any social reform plans , he should approach the Minister of Health who is at this very moment bringing to an end the old Poor Law … ’ |
| 4 | They met after care assistant Gillian , of Aintree , put an ad in a Forces ' newspaper asking for a pen-pal a year ago . |
| 5 | Work out how you would do the entry procession using as a guide the accompanying paper . |
| 6 | He shrugged , the jerky movement betraying for a moment the emotion he had banished from his voice . |
| 7 | His mother was hunting , his father watching from a rock a little way off , and Creggan was trying to win food from his bigger stronger sibling , another male , who had been born before him . |
| 8 | A main aim behind the new personal pensions is to give people working for an employer the same freedom as the self-employed to make their own independent pension arrangements , should they wish to do so . |
| 9 | At the sight of a man approaching from a distance the woman seemed about to thrust the child against the wall but , changing her mind , she walked forward again , and she spoke to the man . |
| 10 | I remember watching children dancing at a wedding a few weeks ago . |
| 11 | She was a maid , it seemed , by the name of Dagmar , and , ‘ You will come , ’ she smiled , and Fabia , realising that she was expected , stepped over the threshold to see Lubor coming from a door a good way up the hall . |