Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [conj] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Attract birds to the garden by feeding them when their natural sources of food are scarce ; grow plants favoured by insect predators ( like limnanthes , cornflowers , eschscholzia , asters , chrysanthemums , robinia , philadelphus and spiraea ) , and respect the habitats of retiring predators such as beetles , frogs and bats . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But having him as her only companion meant she had to be constantly on her guard . |
| 6 | She hid more success with the identities of various names that had been puzzling her since their last encounter , and most satisfactorily of all , she placed the baby . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He handled it the way he wanted to , without involving us or his own people . |
| 10 | you 're not only hurting me and my present wife and my two children , you are also hurting my ex-wife and my son . |
| 11 | In January Aquino acknowledged her debt to Ramos by endorsing him as her chosen successor for the presidency [ see pp. 38728-29 ] . |
| 12 | He took her , or began to , in the direct , unsentimental manner in which she had always understood men took their whores , hurting her slightly not from any particular roughness on his part but because her body had turned dry with protest , resisting him as her supple mind did not . |
| 13 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 14 | She did n't notice Miguel Rafaelo watching her until her slight form merged into the darkness . |
| 15 | It made no attempt to bite , but held its face close to Laba 's , intently watching him while its forked tongue flickered around his nose . |
| 16 | Alyssia tried to remain cool , calm and collected , watching him as his long fingers worked away . |
| 17 | After a very successful tour of West Indies , he took his second team off to Australia , but on the eve of the first Test he received a cable telling him that his widowed mother had died . |
| 18 | She and her daughter set up schools in New Haven and New York , where her daughter died in 1828 , leaving her and her four grandchildren to a semi-nomadic and seemingly ill-fated existence in America . |
| 19 | He enjoyed telling it because his first attempt , to Franco , had been made in a desperate sort of pidgin-Italian . |
| 20 | In earlier years , he may have smiled indulgently on seeing us and our makeshift tables with their colourless array of old books and goods . |
| 21 | Topaz knew that he was teasing her and her first nervousness was gone . |