Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had to lay him off but I had every intention of bringing him back the following season . |
| 2 | If the cross-grained walnut , or other suitable wood , is cut and glued to the pine backing , then the task of passing it over a circular saw is greatly simplified . |
| 3 | If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows . |
| 4 | As Christmas draws near , many of us cherish a cosy vision of spending it around a traditional open fire , toasting crumpets in its dancing flames . |
| 5 | It was like pulling them off a duplicating machine , and after a while , when we realised we had little or no chance of catching anything bigger , it became so boring we never went again . |
| 6 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 7 | Another major advantage over the thinner types of cladding is that they provide additional insulation to exterior walls ( which can be augmented by fixing them over an extra layer of insulation ) . |
| 8 | It is rather important to prolong important climaxes , rather than let them slip away quickly , by holding them over an adequate period , through word repetition , musical extensions , etc . |
| 9 | He could have disposed of them in a more conclusive way on a bonfire or by throwing them down an old mineshaft . ’ |