Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I went to Drake Hall on one sentence I was waiting for another court case as well , a conspiracy case , a big one . |
| 2 | The debt counsellor said that as long as I paid all the money I was getting from Social Security for the house , they could n't take it away from us . |
| 3 | Anyway , just at present I 'm thinking about disembodied laughter . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm going , for work experience I 'm going to Saxted Ministry up there hopefully to see what it 's like looking after children you know , like a nursery and everything . |
| 5 | The seats are cushioned , and in the dark I am waiting for more than entertainment . |
| 6 | Now , through the ‘ Choices ’ programme which is operating in three districts and is to be extended considerably this year , we are offering more and more staff the chance for career counselling and support from JS in improving skills and gaining qualifications . |
| 7 | Among the former are many participles , both present and past : ( 26 ) the watching crowd started to laugh he was greeted by smiling well-wishers the injured man had been feeding the orang-utan but participles do not exhaust the possibilities : ( 27 ) the angry bartender slammed the drink down five empty tumblers were standing by his elbow Notice , too , the clear ambiguity of : ( 28 ) a flashing light as meaning either a light which is flashing on some particular occasion , or one which normally has this characteristic . |
| 8 | A seventeen year old girl was seriously injured when the stolen car she was riding in crashed into a tree . |
| 9 | As one lawyer who is lobbying against many of the bill 's provisions told New Scientist : ‘ The very early aims of data protection laws were to protect the individual , and this particular bill was put forward by this government to protect business interests . |
| 10 | You know , for one pound she were paying like three quid a week or whatever . |
| 11 | But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true . |
| 12 | Third , and of more practical importance , we now knew where to look for any further changes ; by being able to concentrate on IMHV and LPO and discard ‘ irrelevant ’ tissue we might hope to magnify any effect we were studying by diminishing background noise . |
| 13 | Two people were taken to hospital with cuts and facial bruises after the car they were travelling in smashed into a road sign on the A1 western bypass at Lobley Hill , Gateshead , yesterday . |
| 14 | that particular organisation I presume is , is the one that is known as the most profitable investment bank partnership in the world or in history and presumably the reason why you 've been advised is because the advisor or the director to Robert Maxwell who was instrumental in dealing with Robert Maxwell business wherever he was in the world and I mean I 've seen er faxes and cables to France where er that particular director , I believe Mr Shineberg was , I 've seen faxes about Jersey business to Mr Shineberg er presumably er you 're being advised to take that action because in effect it was operating as one operation with transactions routed through New York , routed through London as seemed to suit the circumstances , but not necessarily with any rational basis other than er to avoid perhaps regulation . |
| 15 | At 21 Henry Skelton had his life before him … a brilliant artist and musician he was studying at New College , Oxford . |
| 16 | We rode off to the field which was bursting with beautiful yellow melons , my favourite sort . |
| 17 | ‘ More quantifiably , there 's been a significant improvement in productivity and activity out of a budget which is increasing in real terms but not by much . |
| 18 | The Environment Committee I was talking about this proposal at this meeting . |
| 19 | I can well believe that at home I was going through some such process for many years before I became anorexic , as well as during the course of the disease itself . |
| 20 | It is precisely this sense of legitimacy which is lacking in capitalist societies today . |
| 21 | Despite cruelty and sinfulness there is a common sense of the moral and spiritual universe which is binding on all persons . |
| 22 | The idea is the brainchild of Chester , Ellesmere Port and Wirral Training and Enterprise Council which is looking for 15 companies in the region to take part in a pilot scheme . |
| 23 | In this mode of organising an essay , you divide the issue you are addressing into conflicting positions , or points of view , or sides of an argument . |
| 24 | All surrendered personnel of established Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Jugoslav forces . " |
| 25 | ( iii ) The third paragraph of Robertson 's signal directed that " all surrendered personnel of established Jugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Jugoslav forces ! |
| 26 | And this might help to explain why Gen Robertson devoted such a significant part of his signal to the order that " all surrendered personnel of established Jugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Jugoslav forces " . |
| 27 | This closely corresponds to the wording of Robertson 's order the previous day referring to " all surrendered personnel of established Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces " . |
| 28 | He speaks only of " surrendered personnel of Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces " . |
| 29 | This implies that Robertson 's response to Kirk 's querying of the definition of " Chetniks " had been to remove the term altogether , and simply to word his instruction in general terms that " all surrendered personnel of established Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Yugoslav forces . " |
| 30 | The whole interior was marked by the same fastidiousness she was applying to this task ; every surface neat and polished . |