Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christ 's example is not that of helping us across a road , or showing us what good neighbours we must be — but costly , redemptive , self-emptying love ; love which lays down its life for others so that they might be restored to God . |
| 2 | A lot of his personality , you know you have to like jolly people into liking and sublimating what their own inclination would be to some kind of group style . |
| 3 | This power also has proved to be potent on a truly universal level , with France in particular warming to the man 's work and awarding him its prestigious Chevalier of Arts and Letters , an honour doubtless of special significance to a writer who lists Flaubert and Stendhal as primary influences . |
| 4 | The trip was a great success , the subsequent Travels in the West exhibition proving very popular in Nanjing and giving him his first taste of newspaper and television attention . |
| 5 | She ca n't spend all day monitoring my blood sugar and giving me my thyroid medicine , and if I ca n't paint I shall go mad ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Bring me the women first , ’ Implexion had said , striding into the largest tent and making it his temporary headquarters . |
| 7 | I kept imagining him talking and laughing and thinking what his last thoughts would have been as he travelled along that road . ’ |
| 8 | Thus the Free Presbyterians ( and other conservative Christians ) who picketed a newly opened sex shop on the Castlereagh Road in Belfast ( so successfully that it closed ) saw themselves , not as denying anyone their basic right to sin , but as preventing further incitement and encouragement to sin . |
| 9 | The libraries that Hoggart remembers as giving him his first education in English literature acquired serious books of every kind . |