Example sentences of "[v-ing] he with [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's kind of you to make me so welcome , ’ she said , dazzling him with a very personal smile . |
| 2 | Friends remarked that it was a measure of Branson 's single-minded approach to conversation that you could be regaling him with the most scandalous piece of tittle-tattle in London and he would turn on his heel and walk away , leaving you talking to thin air , while he made yet another telephone call about business . |
| 3 | He wanted to marry her , but she laughed at him too , and said she had already made her choices and they did not include giving up her God and replacing him with a somewhat vulgar and certainly brutal man . |
| 4 | With the election due on Oct. 27 , the latest date allowed by the Constitution , the party took a final desperate gamble by persuading Palmer to resign in September [ see pp. 37716-17 ] and replacing him with the more dynamic Mike Moore . |
| 5 | For Great Britain , the Department of Trade and Industry persuaded Luke Rittner , former Secretary General of the Arts Council , to act as its cultural adviser , but wasted the invitation by equipping him with a totally inadequate budget . |
| 6 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in the year since he took office Scottish dole queues have lengthened by a further 28,000 , leaving almost 250,000 Scots without work and leaving him with an even worse record than his predecessor , the former first lady of mass unemployment ? |