Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mix-up in dates has also occurred in other parts of the country and Neil Dickinson , secretary of the English Schools AAA , wrote to county secretaries a month ago reminding them of the recommended date . |
| 2 | The shaft of the arrow protruding from my back occasionally knocked against something , bringing me to a gasping halt . |
| 3 | In the main these were the moving of all the machinery from the Frame Shops themselves and Body-Shop lean-to , relocating them in the Old Lifting Shop ( No 34 on the 1906 map ) , and the introduction of welded frames . |
| 4 | Touching , stroking not her but the jewels — touching them with an awful tenderness . |
| 5 | She could lie in bed at night and in imagination move confidently around the cottage touching them in a happy exploration of shared memories and reassurance . |
| 6 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 7 | ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right … |
| 8 | Finally , I read yesterday that some managers , most noticably the two Scots that were in Wembley at the weekend , are talking about banning transfers after the season start and only allowing them for a limited period over Christmas . |
| 9 | She had written to them at once after Mr Renfrew 's visit , encompassing them in the great outpouring of gratitude that had flooded her , and received from her father in reply a letter that had shocked her and alarmed her . |
| 10 | Like the smaller copepods , euphausiids are mainly herbivorous , combing algal cells from the water and gathering them in a basket-like arrangement of bristles on their many-jointed forelimbs . |
| 11 | COMIC Mike Harding has had more than 30 poems published after submitting them under an assumed name . |
| 12 | But it means , too , transforming these traditions , by imbuing them with the woman-centered values of nurturance and intimacy , as necessary and legitimate goals of political life . |
| 13 | • Put out any burning clothes by smothering them with a thick cloth or rug , but not something synthetic which would melt in the heat . |
| 14 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
| 15 | The modern world has discovered that citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C — and has started using them in a big way for cooking . |
| 16 | The department was now hoping to integrate relevant library skills worksheets fully into the lower-school course structure by including them within the science-course booklets , and supplementing them with " home-grown " activities where necessary . |
| 17 | These criticisms were ignored ( although delivered by persons of world-wide reputation such as Carl Sauer ) , received a hostile and defensive reaction , or were absorbed by transforming them into a technical issue — rather than facing them as a social and political one . |
| 18 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 19 | The basic guidelines is erm if somebody is a danger to themselves or other people then perhaps there is some way of helping them with an enforced medication or hospital treatment . |
| 20 | But even in Britain and France new ways of mobilising these savings , of channelling them into the required enterprises , of organising joint-stock rather than privately financed activities , had to be devised . |
| 21 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |
| 22 | Whereas in management I take the raw clay of inexperience , then shape and mould it into a team of teapots , Vic had an old-fashioned approach , plucking players with natural ability and building them into a cohesive unit but where no player 's unique , individual flair was stifled . |
| 23 | Such incidents have now been reported sufficiently often in langurs and in lions , for example , to invalidate an early explanation attributing them to a high population density . |
| 24 | Give hands an overnight treat by coating them with a rich conditioner and then donning a pair of lightweight vinyl gloves ( such as HandiMates , £1.09 for a box of 10 ) . |
| 25 | However , the quantitative methods of the 1960s and 1970s had successfully dealt with large-set vowel-variables ( type 1 ) , quantifying them through the whole range ( or most of it ) in a single unilinear dimension of phonetic variation ( such as raising or backing ) . |
| 26 | The particular question that my hon. Friend raises is for my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , but I am grateful to him for reminding me of the precise statistics with which it is always sensible to be armed in any conference on the agreement . |
| 27 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 28 | After 1870 education for the Poles was seen as a way of bringing them within the German order , of lightening their Slav darkness by opening up to them the world of ‘ civilisation ’ . |
| 29 | They made another turn , and another , bringing them in a short time to Southwark Bridge . |
| 30 | Religion keeps people in an infantile state , but by drawing them into a mass delusion , it succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis . |