Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Variations Tweed and Highland were each updated with two new colours , keeping them abreast of the latest trends in colour and furnishing styles . |
| 2 | I think he 's passing them both on the same time . |
| 3 | The Prince rose and waved him round the table to the chair next to his before serving them both with the best wine the clerk had tasted in months . |
| 4 | Let her go to her grave imagining me defiant to the last . |
| 5 | So I 'm disagreeing with what you 're saying , because you , you 're tarring them all with the same brush . |
| 6 | With us he is relaxed , amusing and always considerate , urging us all to the highest achievements . |
| 7 | I look forward very much to seeing you all in the coming months . |
| 8 | But even when it does occur it does not provide too much of a problem , for the sea slugs are capable of quickly regenerating them ready for the next naïve fish to attack . |
| 9 | " Let's not hang about , " Collins said , ushering them both into the darkened hallway . |
| 10 | Why not view that skinhead ideology from a new perspective , for I think it brings us closer to understanding what motivates their hate instead of pumping us full of the old clichés about how inhuman they are … |
| 11 | South Korean President Roh Tae Woo dismissed two members of his Cabinet and the governor of North Chungchong province on Sept. 19 , after holding them responsible for the massive damage which resulted from severe flooding earlier in the month in Seoul and the central region of the country . |
| 12 | Which is probably better than getting them all at the same time . |
| 13 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's promising defender of the 1980s , Billy Garton , has handed Prescot striker Dave Massett a massive boost by calling him one of the best players in the Bass North West Counties League . |
| 14 | We 'll continue to improve our strategy until we eliminate these potentially unsafe conditions — we 're already working on getting it right for the next overhaul in 1993 . |
| 15 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
| 16 | This was the first device to show quantitatively that at least a straight magnetic field system could contain a hot , high-pressure hydrogen plasma without having it diffuse across the magnetic field too rapidly . |
| 17 | There we would see about 30 pissed-up shaggers giving it some behind the piled-high sun loungers ( no standards ) . |
| 18 | She was a woman from an age quite different from Erika 's own ; separated by a gulf , a measureless chasm of experience distancing them each from the other as surely as though they were beings from two different planets . |
| 19 | This was the category of the barbarians , and Greek scholars were traditionally famous for exploring barbarian lands and making them intelligible to the civilized . |
| 20 | Salt is effective by stimulating the taste buds of the tongue and making them aware of the basic tastes of the food being eaten . |
| 21 | Many prospectuses are very wordy making them unattractive to the casual browser , some are over 8000 words long ! |
| 22 | Vasopressin , secreted by both our pituitaries this time , is inhibiting your appetite , preparing you both for the inevitable . |
| 23 | He was a perceptive developer of the promising research of others , having that rare combination of commercial acumen and technical expertise , making him one of the great engineers . |
| 24 | Charles has taken vows before God making him responsible for the Christian upbringing of the child . |
| 25 | Nasser 's lower-middle-class background contributed to the widening of his political interests beyond those imaginable to the fellahin , the peasantry ; while at the same time making him aware of the latter 's situation , and the political and economic oppression suffered . |
| 26 | The troubles of the spirit are not always translated into the grosser medium of the flesh , but if I could not make this transfer with Miller then there would be no point in making him ill in the first place . |
| 27 | Virgin last night refused to comment , but estimates are that the deal could be worth well in excess of £50m , making it one of the largest investments by a Japanese organisation in a UK company . |
| 28 | A connoisseur of French and Italian drawings , Jacob Bean managed to double the number of European drawings in the collection to more than 4,000 , making it one of the largest and most distinguished in the States . |
| 29 | Thereafter it was continually in need of repair or subject to minor alteration until the Reformation , given a Lady Chapel for the cult of the Virgin in the later thirteenth century and , most obviously , a spire in the fifteenth century , making it one of the best landscape features of any medieval building , far less uniformly oppressive than Salisbury . |
| 30 | One of them carries Coslany Street north from St Laurence 's Church , and is a cast-iron bridge of 1804 , making it one of the earliest surviving iron bridges in Britain , built a quarter of a century after Shropshire 's famous pioneer at Ironbridge ( q.v . ) . |