Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His osteopath had premises near Regent 's Park and all the way Berg kept apologizing for all the trouble he was causing and Rain kept assuring him it was none at all . |
| 2 | In the event of death occurring in such a case I would accept that it could be an unnatural death . |
| 3 | When buying by mail order , keep a copy of the details relating to both the company you are buying from and the item . |
| 4 | When buying by mail order , keep a copy of the details relating to both the company you are buying from and the item . |
| 5 | And as we are unlikely to see any real harmonisation of accounting procedures , fiscal requirements or business practices throughout the Community in the near future , pan-European accounting systems will be increasingly important to the large number of UK companies looking for all the help they can get . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , my dear friar , according to all the evidence we have , Sir Ralph went to bed , and locked the door behind him , keeping the key with him . |
| 7 | It was absurd for her to be going on such an expedition She and Matthew sat at the back of the bus , and while they were bowling along into the country , with a beautiful view of the landscape , Matthew explained the history of the school forest . |
| 8 | Almost certainly if you were suffering from such an illness you would have other symptoms to indicate that you were unwell . |
| 9 | It was in no way intense , and indeed coming from such a figure it could not help but appear a little maternal ; Mrs Hill did not seem to discover anything odd in her own attitude , and would consult Clara 's opinion without any attempts at subterfuge or bravado ; she would defer to Clara 's position in the class by outrageously open remarks such as " Now , Clara , you 're the only girl likely to remember what I said last week " , or " Well , I suppose I 'm wasting my breath on all but Clara Maugham . " |
| 10 | I once knitted almost half of the front of a sweater in tuck stitch , continually dropping stitches and muttering at all the time I was spending picking them up . |
| 11 | Without a word , the nun ushered them through the broad , thick oak door and into a tiled hall , there to be confronted by a statue of the Virgin Mary with the Child in her arms , and above her , on the wall , a large crucifix hanging at such an angle it appeared that Christ 's bent head was viewing Himself as a child in His mother 's arms . |
| 12 | We wo n't actually make or do anything , but it will be really neat lying in the meadows thinking about all the money we are making on off-shore tax haven related business . |
| 13 | I was thinking of all the work I needed to do on Masquerade ; all the painstaking hours of sawing and planing and caulking and rigging . |
| 14 | Then he was pulling her down over him , turning her in his arms , twining her limbs around his own , filling up her emptiness , tending her craving with all the knowledge he possessed . |