Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [v-ing] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I suppose I led you into thinking the exact opposite — that I had a swinging social life . ’ |
| 2 | I do not want to mislead you , or to deter you from making the right personal decision . |
| 3 | I hope that all who read this book will join me in wishing the Royal Veterinary College a successful and rewarding third century . |
| 4 | Basler 's N96BF was built for the US Navy as R4D-5 ( C-47A-25DK equivalent ) BuNo 17223 and served with them until joining the French naval air arm — Aeronavale — in early 1964 . |
| 5 | No one comes near him for stating the bloody obvious . |
| 6 | Why were n't they off photographing the three hundred bodies that the Americans were digging up and dumping into a mass grave ? |
| 7 | The sound of choking woke the boy next to him out of dreams of home , shocking him into knowing the hideous rocking hole where they lay . |
| 8 | There were other , more delicate feelings which Annie realised had been awoken inside her by meeting the handsome young man . |
| 9 | In the 1060s Pisa won a substantial fortune in a naval raid on Palermo , still in Muslim hands , and dedicated a handsome part of it to beautifying the famous religious quarter of the city — laying the foundations of cathedral and baptistry and other ecclesiastical buildings . |
| 10 | Thus the government rejected the argument that the best way to improve the long-run viability of the industry would be to restructure it by merging the two leading manufacturers . |
| 11 | The two Mabon brothers , 27-year-old Hamish and 23-year-old Hunter , the sons of the Scottishborn former President of the Swedish Union , scored ten tries between them by playing the traditional Swedish game — full of energy and aggression . |
| 12 | An arsenal of political treacheries was employed to impede our progress , from the medium-range one of accusing us of lacking the right political perspective , to the more insidious long-range ones of accusing us of divisiveness , bringing men into feminism by speaking about the war in Ireland and , even on one occasion , attempting to show an exhibition — the famous , ‘ Bin Lids and Barricades ’ . |
| 13 | But before we do , there are one or two more things that the Creation 6 program can do for us regarding visualising the actual knitted fabric and seeing how the design is treated by the console on receiving the computer information . |