Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their father who had started the business , although retired , was still usually to be found there , hovering in the background , his full white beard reminding me of Father Christmas . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That poems are alive but they run away from you , you know and you have difficulty catching them like you have difficulty catching foxes . |
| 4 | The Tisseran itself is now in the Bate Collection ( illus.4 ) : its painted and gilded case reminding us of the harpsichord the princess is playing in The music party . |
| 5 | A broad-beamed fellow like myself should have no difficulty careering it across the ironing board , although a woman or even a bachelor-wimp might sooner resort to an old-fashioned metal iron than attempt to put this monster through its paces . |
| 6 | This is not an uncommon occurrence because birds of prey have what is known as ‘ tunnel vision ’ — which means that although they can focus with deadly accuracy on the prey straight in front of them , they have difficulty seeing anything outside that direct line of sight . |
| 7 | Erm so in in broad terms the master plan is is unchanged in concept but we think improved in detail the is the other thing at each end erm represents on the left hand side er , what is currently Honey Hill I believe the name may be changed in due course erm and those behind me here are the houses on the Fern Hill side and then , although some of you will have difficulty seeing it at the moment , at the bottom there are detailed drawings showing the internal arrangement of the houses and flats and , and detailed drawings of the elevations with dimensions , so one can have a have a bit of a feel for the the sort of space standards that we 've aimed at , but there are in fact , furniture plans shown on the drawings . |
| 8 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into the computer enabling them to be further processed without the necessity of reproducing the original . |
| 9 | I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst . |
| 10 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 11 | He picked up an old ornament : a serpent winding itself around a globe ; an appropriate image . |
| 12 | M.Ps have no privilege protecting them against an arrest on criminal charges but they are protected against arrest in connection with a civil matter while parliament is in session and for 40 days before and after . |
| 13 | ‘ When a dealing is had between a seller like Mr. Lewis and a person who is actually there present before him , then the presumption in law is that there is a contract , even though there is a fraudulent impersonation by the buyer representing himself as a different man than he is . |
| 14 | Lord Aldington , 75 , is seeking damages from Nigel Watts , a property developer , who circulated a pamphlet accusing him of arranging every detail of the repatriation of 70,000 Yugoslav and Russian men , women and children who were subsequently tortured and massacred . |
| 15 | Lord Aldington , a UK peer and former Army officer , was on Nov. 30 , 1989 , awarded £1,500,000 in libel damages over a pamphlet accusing him of deliberately sending 70,000 Yugoslavs and Cossacks to their death in 1945 . |
| 16 | One woman from Ollerton was imprisoned in Risley Remand Centre after joining a picket line in breach of a bail condition prohibiting her from doing so . |
| 17 | The economic restructuring of recent years has had a traumatic effect on the estates , with massive job loss and factory closure transforming them into increasingly isolated , state-managed ‘ subsistence communities ’ . |
| 18 | Weakly she willed him not to , but if he sensed her resistance he ignored it , his mouth tantalising her with its warm desirability . |
| 19 | There was a fair wind spattering them with rain as they made their descent to the beach . |
| 20 | It is an unrelieved black except for the white flanks but a watcher catching it in the right light might see the head has an iridescent purple sheen which can be striking . |
| 21 | Initial charges are up to 5 p.c. depending which of the 14 underlying funds are chosen . |
| 22 | We went off to parade for lunch ; this meant ten minutes doing press-ups with the Corporal halting us in mid exercise so that we were poised between the ground and the arms-stretched position — as our limbs weakened so people started to slump and collapse , which resulted in kicks and blows . |
| 23 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 24 | It also offers the spectacle ( increasingly common this season ) of crack British acting talent hurling itself down a lucrative drain . |
| 25 | Up to then he had respected his old friend 's command abjuring him from creating the vortex . |
| 26 | For the whole basis of Sartre 's argument is that the dialectic of history is not a metaphysical law , ‘ some powerful unitary force revealing itself behind History like the will of God ’ , but the continuously produced effect of individual conflicts ; each action is in its turn subsumed as a part of the whole in an ever broader , developing totalization ( I , 37 ) . |
| 27 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 28 | That morning , as he galloped along the ride between the trees in the Tiergarten , his horse 's hooves kicked up the powdered snow filling him with a fierce joy . |
| 29 | People born since the 1890s have been unnaturally large because they have eaten too much protein believing it to be essential for growth , says survey author Geoffrey Cannon in New Woman magazine . |
| 30 | Time after time he overtook in the face of oncoming traffic then braked heavily as he forced the car into a small gap causing everyone behind him to brake amidst the clouds of exhaust smoke from his obviously tired old engine . |