Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've also had people at forty plus telling me the same thing which is a nonsense . |
| 2 | They have done this by asking what the British really want from a holiday . |
| 3 | There was no doubting her sister 's passion as she struggled to express her resentment , writing : — on my life Lily I declare I want only what is best for the child and would not be Cruel to him nor the cause of Cruelty and what you asked was Cruel the child knowing no Italian and being Fearful of leaving me the only Mother he has known and who he loves as his own . |
| 4 | It is a good sound bite , but it is not any better for hearing it the second time . |
| 5 | Fear , attraction , dismay , and total confusion : she had experienced them all since meeting him the previous day . |
| 6 | Like the emerging national plan , the Florida measure seeks to make health-insurance benefits available to the working poor by giving them the same clout in the marketplace as employees of big companies . |
| 7 | Personal preference naturally varies but more benefit is to be gained by having a reasonable breakfast and lunch and a smaller evening meal ( even though most of us are used to doing it the other way around ) . |
| 8 | She gulped , barely capable of denying herself the inevitable . |
| 9 | The Bölkow 207 is fitted with toe-operated rubber pedals on the P1 position only , so Nigel was being very trusting in giving me the only set of brakes . |
| 10 | He seemed very intent on showing us the precise spot where Mr Marr 's body had lain . |