Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drunken porter allowing them entrance after the usual altercation . |
| 2 | However , of its contemporaries , your soaraway NME was undoubtedly the most diligent in bringing you news of the latest teen pop sensations . |
| 3 | I would further recommend that a strong warning be issued to the father , pointing out to him that if he should continue to molest his wife and daughter the law allows an injunction to be brought against him , forbidding him access to the marital home . |
| 4 | The High Altar and those flanking it date from the 1690s and are decorated in polychrome with good quality sculpted figures , again by Jäckel . |
| 5 | An infection control policy should be available to staff , emphasising he importance of the safe disposal of sharps . |
| 6 | Alan got a message for you all the stewards and secretaries within Pilkingtons and also the A E U , M S F and the T & G thanks very much for the initiative you 've in getting us all together and the initiative you 've took in getting us part of the European set-up company Pilkingtons , at this present time are very negative . |
| 7 | Everyone feels healthier there , and so many visitors love the freshness of the high altitude , giving them appetite for the local gratin dishes , the carp and pike , the best butter in the world , light white wines like the Seyssel of Savoy — and of course the famous liqueur , Chartreuse . |
| 8 | First , I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me notice of the detailed point that he wished to raise . |
| 9 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 10 | he was a development manager , I 've been giving 'em earache for the last year and a half , saying , you are falling behind man . |
| 11 | It is conceivable , too , that the Sihtric dux who witnesses three of Cnut 's charters may be the Dublin monarch Sihtric Silkbeard , who used dies evidently made for him in the mint at Chester to strike pennies naming him king of the Irish and modelled on Cnut 's Quatrefoil type . |
| 12 | On 2 November 1715 , General Forster , who had now received a commission from the Earl of Mar appointing him Commander-in-Chief of the Jacobite forces in England , led his somewhat reluctant army through Longtown and Brampton towards Penrith , though the Highlanders with him had cheered up , and become noticeably more loyal , on being promised the handsome pay of sixpence [ 2.5p ] a day . |
| 13 | Put on , on the bottom of the blank line , rather than putting it top of the total line . |
| 14 | The Barbier-Mueller collection contains about seventy pieces , covering the full range of works made on the islands — modelled human skulls , weapons , house posts , ancestor statues and a rare bark mask from the northernmost island of the archipelago — placing it second after the British Museum in terms of the importance of its holdings . |
| 15 | ‘ So I 'm not exactly flavour of the month , anymore , ’ I said , watching him shin up the old lime tree . |