Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , Miss Celia , as I still often think of her , being that young at the time and Mrs Tremayne not wanting her to know , pledging me and my eldest brother , Bert , to secrecy . |
| 2 | Effectively the NSA is defeating itself and its original purpose by its size . |
| 3 | There is much to suggest that the visionary leader shares many of the actor 's skills in representing his or her strategic vision . |
| 4 | Integration proves problematic in Brooke-Rose 's novels ; there is a growing sense of the impossibility of conveying ideas through a unified realist character without seriously jeopardizing his or her psychological autonomy and integrity . |
| 5 | And now , my dear Sir , having said this much on behalf of this deserving Youth , I must beg to assure you that however zealous my wish to be the means of serving him and his poor Mother , I do not wish , on that account , to influence you — Quite the contrary — I know that in similar cases , your benevolent views have been disappointed , and , perhaps , you have consequently made arrangements for the Future which may render it ineligible to take any youth in the same way as proposed to his Brother — even if you have at present — or are likely in course of a year or two — to have a vacancy . |
| 6 | The adolescent uses the peer group to evaluate the perspectives of others , while developing his or her own values and attitudes . |
| 7 | This is done for its own sake but it is found that the primary sufferer will quite commonly seek treatment through his or her appropriate Anonymous Fellowship within a few months of the family member seeking his or her own recovery . |
| 8 | The LTQ training programme began at the top of the organization and ‘ cascaded ’ downwards with each manager training his or her immediate subordinates in the process . |
| 9 | In celebrating the Friend the Poet is celebrating himself and his own power : Here again Shakespeare has personalized the Friend while depersonalizing the Poet . |
| 10 | Then Fif 's mandroids pushed their way through , and in the melee I managed to scuttle on hands and knees among all the legs before getting up and getting myself and my aching face away from there . |
| 11 | Welcome back : A five year old Bosnian airlifted to Britain from Sarajevo upstaged the Health Minister today , and publicly thanked hospital workers for treating him and his fellow evacuees . |
| 12 | Financial assistance out of public funds should be available for every individual ( not corporations ) who , without it , would suffer an undue financial burden in properly pursuing or defending his or her legal rights ; |
| 13 | These qualities rely upon an atmosphere which conveys that the counsellor is sincere , and can be perceived as a real person giving his or her total attention , not just acting a role . |
| 14 | A whispering campaign by it that there was a communist cell linked with his cabinet and involving himself and his personal secretary , Lady Falkender , had led him to call in Sir Michael Hanley , director-general of DI5 , in the summer of 1975 . |
| 15 | Ian 's kid sister , who was playing mothers and fathers with her friends in the crawl space under the porch , said it was marvellous , so they had to be content with this infant praise and with taking her and her mud-covered friends for a ride round the block . |
| 16 | They uphold the belief that even the most deprived and humble person is capable of determining his or her own needs with both creativity and industriousness in working towards a solution . |
| 17 | The role of the counsellor is to help the individual in this process , first in understanding and determining his or her particular goals , making sure they are realistic or indeed , sufficiently ambitious ; second , to help decide how best they can be achieved ; and third , to help the individual come to terms with retirement , and to play a more active part in its outcome . |
| 18 | Such a list would comprise the constitution and procedure of Parliament , including the mechanism for electing it and its sovereign right to raise taxes , the relationship between Parliament , the executive and the courts , and matters to do with defence and foreign policy . |
| 19 | He handled it the way he wanted to , without involving us or his own people . |
| 20 | This in turn will increase the child 's motivation both to engage in further communication and to discover the means for realising his or her communicative intentions more adequately . |
| 21 | We speak , after all , of ‘ drawing out ’ a person , meaning encouraging his or her true feelings and thoughts to surface . |
| 22 | The reader also extends the author 's ideas , using his or her own knowledge , experience , and so on . |
| 23 | you 're not only hurting me and my present wife and my two children , you are also hurting my ex-wife and my son . |
| 24 | Each teacher shall be given an individual job description specifying his or her particular responsibilities . |
| 25 | I reasoned that this was where I would find a small breeder advertising his or her first clutches of chicks for sale — someone who was n't big enough to justify advertising all year round . |
| 26 | But a manager who meets targets , whether or not they are financial , is increasing his or her future prospects , so the constraints of the managerial labour market can be brought to bear . |
| 27 | Each student is held responsible for registering his or her own module programme . |
| 28 | A never-ending stream of people kept climbing over the sides and lowering themselves and their tremendous baggage into the sea of bodies . |
| 29 | Before putting yourself or your past experience down , as too many nurses are inclined to do , think instead about the stressful situations and important decisions you have had to face since leaving nursing . |
| 30 | Hours later , resting myself and my battered legs in a shallow cave on a hillside , I returned to something like my senses . |