Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children can find out these differences and we might encourage them to talk about them by posing such questions as : |
| 2 | COUNTY NatWest Investment Management is launching an umbrella indexed fund which allows investors to track markets in different parts of the world and switch between them without incurring huge costs . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not going to do anything , except wait and see how the police get on , ’ said Joe , ‘ and I do n't know what you can do except tell the police that you got acquainted with the unfortunate bloke when he came after you for nicking that wallet from Blackbeard . |
| 4 | Pretty soon they 'll send constables after us for doing such things ! |
| 5 | Of course some of them like doing one job more than others ; I 've got one gardener who likes doing nothing else but cutting grass — well , he 's quite welcome to do that because the rest of us are not fussy . |
| 6 | There are not going to be agents of the DES disguised as pupils planted in every classroom , and teachers , renowned for their creativity , can exercise some of it on discovering creative interpretations of the law . |
| 7 | I managed to avoid a lot of it by having some tasks of my own . |
| 8 | It removes the pernicious , if subconscious obsession with calendar age , which precludes some of us from learning new things , or undertaking new tasks , or taking a new interest in the world around us . ’ |
| 9 | Thorning adds : ‘ Of course , this arrangement does n't stop either of us from getting other contacts within the CIS . |
| 10 | Now she could use the shop windows to look behind her without arousing any suspicions . |
| 11 | The factor which has weighed most with me in reaching this conclusion is the scheme of the Act as shown by its treatment of trusts . |
| 12 | ‘ They were pretty threatening but we tried to reason with them by offering free meals to children . |
| 13 | Accordingly , the Commission considered that there was a great likelihood that customers , who had already acquired ATR or De Havilland commuters , would stay with them in placing future orders . |
| 14 | It has been decided to recruit a number of ‘ volunteer ’ Area Organisers to keep records of classes int heir area and Pat hopes that you will co-operate with them in giving fullest details of your classes so that communications can be improved both within the Society and with the public . |
| 15 | When the baby had finished Tess played with him without showing much enthusiasm . |
| 16 | ‘ I was born into the trap , he walked into it in avoiding another kind of servitude , with his eyes open , but not looking where he was going . |
| 17 | Do you really think I 'd do that — take money from you for doing one thing , and at the same time take money from someone else to do the opposite ? ’ |
| 18 | Contracts for the loan of money and supply of goods to infants and ‘ accounts stated ’ with infants were made altogether void , while the possibility of ratification was taken away from all those contracts which required ratification to make them binding upon him after attaining full age ; and even a new promise to perform the contract , whether made upon a fresh consideration or not , could not be enforced by action . |
| 19 | He has bravely published his own work and copies of this delightful little album style publication can be obtained direct from him at adding 90 pence for postage . |
| 20 | If you deviate from it , and it 's terribly easy to deviate from it by rejecting certain thoughts , oh that 's silly , that 's not relevant , that 's too obvious , that 's objectionable , erm , that 's too Freudian , you know , if you say that kind of thing to yourself you get nowhere . |
| 21 | It seems too that analogizing is so deeply involved not only in thinking but in perception that there is no hope of escaping from it by isolating pure observations from which induction can start . |
| 22 | Once you have decided on your core force you can elaborate upon it by adding more troops , war machines , and monsters . |
| 23 | Many lower-level headmen received a legitimate income by retaining a proportion of the fees paid to them for issuing various licences and for other duties . |
| 24 | He takes the belt to them for nicking one minute , and then the next he 's sending them out to do it . |
| 25 | Good luck to them for winning international honours at that level . |
| 26 | We may appear superior to them in adopting this thinking . |
| 27 | The fire brigade were very critical of the water pressure available to them in fighting this hilltop fire . |
| 28 | He apologised to me for paying insufficient attention while entering a strange harbour . ’ |
| 29 | John Harris was of great help to me in collecting architectural drawings , and I 've always admired his grasp of that field . |
| 30 | One kid in my neighbourhood , a Blood , came up to me after seeing this movie and he said , ‘ I 'm gon na go home and tell my mother she better not call me a motherfucker anymore . ’ |