Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rangers will help the area and visitors by advising , guiding and informing them about the Hills and the many interests to be seen and enjoyed . |
| 2 | Much credit is due to the quick thinking of his jockey John Buckingham riding in his first Grand National , in steering him over to the wide outside and popping him through a gap . |
| 3 | LUKE SAT ON AN expo love-seat in Club World at Heathrow , drinking Volvic and availing himself of a complimentary fax machine — clearing up the initial paperwork with Mike on the poem . |
| 4 | Understandably , perhaps , there is a strong temptation to try to avoid these difficulties by taking qualities as basic and confining oneself to the idea of a plurality of qualities , with particulars being interpreted as bundles of qualities . |
| 5 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 6 | Yet , there also appear dangers in resting content with proposing apparent similarities between past and present and leaving them on the table , as it were . |
| 7 | As an ex-Catholic , ex-alcoholic , ex-hippie fifty-something from New Orleans , dressed in goth-style black and looking something like an old-fashioned schoolmistress , Anne Rice is not your typical American bestseller author . |
| 8 | I should like the opportunity of starving and beating you to a pulp . |
| 9 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |
| 10 | If smoking is allowed it stops people doing it in secret and making it into a clever or fashionable thing to do |
| 11 | The men deny taking nude pictures of the girls while they themselves were naked and showing them to the children 's mother . |
| 12 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |