Example sentences of "[v-ing] i [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 2 | The agendas for the above 3 meetings will be issued in due course , but it is not intended that the reports should be circulated again ; spare copies of the reports are available for members , by telephoning me at the undernoted extension . |
| 3 | I am indebted to our Home Improvements Editor , David Holloway , for providing me with the following information relating to the 2.5 per cent VAT increase announced in the recent Budget . |
| 4 | I AM indebted to the Esperanto Centre in London for providing me with the following gem , under the heading ‘ Unfortunate Translations ’ . |
| 5 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |
| 6 | ‘ Right , ’ she said , towing me into the tall bracken . |
| 7 | Two fingers I had waved at that driver as he thundered past me , cursing me through the open cab window and fighting the wheel , and those two fingers I now regretted having on my hand . |
| 8 | Well , gravity was stretching me one way-in the direction pointing to the centre of the hole — and crushing me in the sideways direction , right ? |
| 9 | The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge . |
| 10 | We stayed put , ’ said seventy-three-year-old Jean Greig , showing me round the old house where JTR had fallen in love with sunny-hearted Sheilla . |
| 11 | ‘ For putting me in the right frame of mind for facing that rat Silvio . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 13 | I held Elizabeth close , and as I held her , I saw the monster watching me through the open window of the room . |
| 14 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 15 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 16 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 17 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 18 | By forcing me to take part in rituals that were scientifically formulated the psychiatrist had logically inverted the magical process whereby my original eidetic memory had ripped the meniscus , thrusting me into the noumenal world . |