Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For further advice on tactics for avoiding hidden agendas or surfacing them , see Games on page 71 . |
| 2 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 3 | He made no bones about stating his own views or criticising theirs . |
| 4 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 5 | The consultant has explained that Tourette 's Syndrome is a rare and unfortunate condition , and he should fucking well know about those , he 's right off the Christmas tree , probably spent half his life sucking strange men 's cocks or taking it up the arsehole in a public loo in the Charing Cross Road . |
| 6 | Any system which is exhaustively described by Figure 9 would be incapable of repeating nonsense words or reading them aloud or writing them to dictation . |
| 7 | So much can be conveyed by putting your arms around someone 's shoulders or giving them a kiss . |
| 8 | ‘ I had daft wee notions about setting up a mobile massage unit going round theatres at matinees getting people 's shoulders out of their ears and calling it Feels on Wheels , ’ said the Glasgow-born actress . |
| 9 | ‘ I had daft wee notions about setting up a mobile massage unit going round theatres at matinees getting people 's shoulders out of their ears and calling it Feels on Wheels , ’ said the Glasgow-born actress . |
| 10 | Then , calm restored , they went about the business of confiscating the property of Japanese-Americans and sending them to concentration camps . |
| 11 | He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth . |
| 12 | breaking their legs and kicking them in their bollo I mean balls , in the , in the , in the |
| 13 | ‘ If it 's a fight you want , ’ he said thickly , catching her kicking legs and lifting her violently in his arms , ‘ you 've got it ! ’ |
| 14 | Although we are dot going to be hobbling a horse by three legs and tethering it all day out in the sun , we will need a tolerant horse if we wish it to do boring or repetitious work . |
| 15 | Yeah it literally it 's like sticking a sticking plaster on your legs and pulling it off . |
| 16 | He picked up one of the ashtrays and sat down in an armchair , crossing his legs and balancing it on his knee . |
| 17 | Yes , I think really it 's a er , faulty gene in the system and no matter how men hate women , the majority of men really like women other than perhaps envy , or jealousy , or women earning more than their husbands and throwing it back in them , in their face , but the main subject , the main point to me is , there is a faulty ge gene in their system and there 's no way you will eradicate that ! |
| 18 | The tabloid papers , which make their money from guessing the prejudices of their readers and dressing them up as informed opinion , had a field day . |
| 19 | Common methods of ink sharing include embedding ink in existing documents , files or databases and sending it via electronic mail ; providing clipboard operations ; and supporting inter-application transfers . |
| 20 | Then the assembly could be brought into play as well — as a forum for airing grievances and settling them — and , again , making men feel that their concerns and feelings were being taken into account . |
| 21 | And that is what we 're talking about , we 're talking about taking out the two or three hundred really active people , the control and the command structure of the I R A and of the other terrorist organizations and putting them in . |
| 22 | The drafter may be tempted to adopt a 'scissors and paste " approach , drawing individual clauses from a number of precedents and putting them together to form a finished product . |
| 23 | Had the Presbytery been selecting candidates and foisting them on the DUP , Smyth 's view would be more plausible . |
| 24 | It 's all to do with squashing up waves and spreading them out . ’ |
| 25 | Nona stared at the grey river where the wind was picking up little waves and throwing them against the walls of the river walk . |
| 26 | His young boss was catching the little animals and handing them to Rory who held them upside down , gripped between his thighs with their legs apart , and as I quickly incised the scrotums and drew out the testicles my blade almost touched the rough material of his trouser crutch . |
| 27 | Tod and I reclined on the wrung bedding as Irene advanced into the room , holding a tightly gripped paper tissue to her eyes and calling us a piece of shit . |
| 28 | Only then did she raise her head , meeting his eyes and holding them . |
| 29 | Claudia woke up slowly , opening her eyes and closing them immediately against the light that poured in through long narrow windows . |
| 30 | The smoke was swirling around him , affecting his unprotected eyes and making him choke . |