Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guard scanned the colour photograph on the pass more carefully , checking it against the listed physical description and the man himself . |
| 2 | Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system . |
| 3 | There was a little crowd underneath him , beseeching him with the heavy solemn common-sense of drunks to ‘ come down and not be a fool ’ . |
| 4 | We appeal to your readers to write to your government , informing them of the catastrophic environmental effects of the war and urging economic and political sanctions against the Serbian aggressors . |
| 5 | Incoming values are stored by adding them to the appropriate linked list . |
| 6 | A single simulation is made by generating random numbers from these probability distributions and adding them to the observed geographic coordinates ( defining point , line or area features ) with these random values . |
| 7 | Ross said , taking hold of her arm and leading her through the wide arched entrance of the building , towards a bank of lifts . |
| 8 | In non-metropolitan England and Wales and in Scotland , housing is allocated to the districts , thus separating it from the personal social services . |
| 9 | Recently , experimental work has investigated the use of the programmed technique in what is now called computer-assisted learning , where the programmes are fed into the computer ; the machine can then , if the initial preparation has been thorough enough , monitor the responses of a great many students at a time , switching them to the appropriate branching sequence as their responses demonstrate the need . |
| 10 | It 's normally a place for quiet reflection in the midst of the commercial centre of Edinburgh , but this morning it 's full of books – boxes and boxes of them wherever you look – and people sorting them for the annual Christian Aid Book Sale . |
| 11 | This was partly due to ‘ The Loco-Motion ’ , remixed by Stock , Aitken and Waterman and her third single on the PWL label , succeeding in breaking her in the all-important American market when it climbed to number three in the US charts . |
| 12 | Cinzia brought them both large measures of whisky and sat down astride the wicker chair in front of the writing desk , facing him over the ridged wooden back . |
| 13 | Facing him across the bleached wooden plank , Melissa became aware of an extraordinary change in his manner . |
| 14 | Shortly after Haq 's resignation the government announced plans to curb public expenditure by holding it during the current financial year ( ending in June 1990 ) at the 1988-89 level . |
| 15 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 16 | He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes . |
| 17 | Assisting him in the difficult early days were ‘ ski buddies ’ , able-bodied skiers who gave one-to-one tuition . |
| 18 | I am looking forward to seeing him in the French Open and hopefully he will win it this year ! |
| 19 | The words were spoken as his hand touched her shoulder and slid around her back , drawing her into the warm sheltering cliff of his chest . |
| 20 | She pulled the door back a foot or so then slammed it forward , catching him between the heavy wooden door and the frame . |
| 21 | These negative or unenthusiastic reactions from the primary Gulf states showed that the prospects for involving them in the proposed neutralised area were poor . |
| 22 | Senior civil servants , the privileged connoisseurs of prime-ministerial style and procedure , tend not to be purist about the operational implications of Cabinet conventions , except when routinely deploying them in the occasional public lecture or dismissing requests for the early declassification of harmless material . |
| 23 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |
| 24 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 25 | She breathed deeply , like a swimmer suddenly out of her depth , then his arms locked around her , crushing her against the tautly muscled wall of his chest . |
| 26 | But even if we allow that this can be a beneficial experience , we must question the wisdom of seeing it as the only valid way in which reading can be learned . |
| 27 | This is consistent with the previous dating of the paintings to Early Style IV , placing them in the Early Magdalenian era . |
| 28 | The only principle abandoned in 1857 was the propriety of making legal remedies for marriage difficulties available for the aristocracy while withholding them from the growing upper middle class . |
| 29 | He must have a suitcase of handkerchiefs , Trent thought as he met the Latino 's cold eyes studying him over the crisp white linen barricade . |
| 30 | Will later courts broaden the scope of the ratio decidendi when they interpret the case , or will they restrict it and narrow it down , confining it to the particular factual situation of the original case ? |