Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you used floats on your model during the initial learning period and have since removed them , it would be well worth replacing them for your first circuits . |
| 2 | If inviting an elderly parent to come to live with you in your own home seems to be the best way of helping her in her last years , the first overtures you make to her on this subject need to be very tactful , bearing all the hallmarks of a really welcoming invitation . |
| 3 | Because she disliked it so , he found a fleeting pleasure in calling her by her first name . |
| 4 | What his countrymen did not deserve was being prevented from ousting him after his second term of office . |
| 5 | The comrades we have been teaching are very pleasant , but a bit more reticent than elsewhere — the people at Peking and Sian got round to calling us by our first names , but here it 's ‘ miss ’ and ‘ Professor ’ ( or , to give my name in Chinese ) . |