Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 2 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 3 | Once you 've done it once it actually relatively easy for you to improve it an an and getting it better in the next iteration , erm that is exactly the situation you 've got here . |
| 4 | One expects the interpreter to influence the content , context and spirit of a message as little as possible in keeping with relaying it meaningfully in the second language . |
| 5 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 6 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 7 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 8 | Er simply in terms of the impact , there is a lot more work to be done on that and we would do that in t in developing the scheme and bringing it forward to the next stage , to mitigate the adverse effects er that come about as a result of er construction of new roads . |
| 9 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |
| 10 | But I 've been watching you closely over the last few weeks , Aurora . |
| 11 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 12 | In 1979 he voted for Margaret Thatcher , backing her again at the last election after a switch to the SDP in 1983 . |