Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather a display of witty dexterity , depending for its effect upon a sharing of specialized learning between author/narrator and readers/listeners . |
| 2 | Roman was gazing after his secretary with a thoughtful air , then he turned back to Caroline . |
| 3 | The Life of Guthlac claims that Guthlac-reputedly appearing after his death in a vision to Aethelbald — prophesied that he would receive the kingdom from the hand of God , who had foreshortened Ceolred 's life for its wickedness , and triumph over his foes ( Vita Guthlaci , ch. 49 ) . |
| 4 | The result is that the hammer or the bullet is pressing against its target for a period , perhaps about a hundredth of a second , which is very long compared with the time which is required to conduct the energy away from the point of impact in the form of waves of sound or stress . |
| 5 | John thinks Campbell is superb in rehearsal , leaping from his chair after a protracted silence to make a passionate speech about some aspect of the story that suddenly stirs him . |
| 6 | If the Prime Minister is walking in his garden on a summer 's morning you could push up the rickety sash — like this — and call down to him . |
| 7 | Necessarily therefore , if North Yorkshire proceed with environmental constraints applying in their county as a whole , the proper planning of the region is being frustrated because somebody is not being planned for . |
| 8 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 9 | Police said the couple were walking to their hotel from a restaurant when a man drove a car up beside them , pointed a gun and ordered them to lie down . |
| 10 | I suppose she 's afraid of anything happening to her friend as a result . |
| 11 | E&Y paid $400m to the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at the end of last year , as full and final settlement of any outstanding claims relating to its work as a savings and loan auditor ( see ACCOUNTANCY , January , p 15 ) . |
| 12 | The Tokyo regulatory exchange also barred the offending companies from trading on its floor for a period of two days , and the City of Tokyo was reported to have withdrawn some commission work from them . |
| 13 | Ruth and David Daniels were looking forward to returning to their house after a year working abroad . |
| 14 | The desk clerk had gone off duty , but had he seen Kragan , he would only have seen another businessman in an expensive coat returning to his hotel after a night out . |
| 15 | I shall be the only person returning to his car without a shopping trolley . |
| 16 | You wo n't miss your paid-for breakfast between 8am and 9am , nor will you have the domestic staff banging at your door with a vacuum cleaner in tow . |
| 17 | He was dabbing at his face with a large wad of cotton wool . |
| 18 | Next morning Clarissa was wandering about her bedroom in a state of undress , feeling miserable . |
| 19 | The reason the peseta has not blown before now may be because the Bank of Spain has been looking after its currency in a novel way . |
| 20 | Younger neighbours may be glad to ‘ sit in ’ for one evening a week too , if you can give them some service in return , such as looking after their child for a morning while they go shopping , although of course there are people who will help with no expectation of reward , if you make your need known to them-perhaps more of them than you imagine . |
| 21 | Here am I , working for a glamorous journalist in a huge house in Richmond , looking after her brat of a daughter ( four-year-old Charlotte , who has her good moments but is mostly involved in a longstanding game of wear-the-au-pair-to-a-frazzle ) , when my mother needs me just as much to look after her daughter , but does n't have a big house and ca n't afford to pay . |
| 22 | It comes as a surprise to find him boasting of his prowess as a rioter . |
| 23 | Some time later a well-known angler , to whom I had shown the remains , was boasting of my catch to a mutual friend who was scornful , regarding anything more than 10 inches long unfit for the table . |
| 24 | You see , it hurt me to think that you hated me , that you could have been conspiring behind my back with a man like William , but then I began to think a little straighter . |
| 25 | One day the young lord went hunting with his hound in a densely thicketed part of the forest . |
| 26 | I would watch the brothers sparring and the women , heads down , picking into their food with a concentration more usually associated with ruminants , and wonder how this family had cohered in the past . |
| 27 | The Sun identified the exact hospital and also mentioned how the wife had been living with her mother in a named town since her husband 's arrest . |
| 28 | I was living with my mam in a council house . |
| 29 | Nicholas , who is living with his family in a tiny flat , hopes the damage will be repaired in time for Christmas . |
| 30 | Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist . |