Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our timber floor is made of attractive boards in good condition , so I 'm wondering if there are any problems with staining them and then finishing them using a clear varnish . |
| 2 | So all they 're asking really as you 're the landlords , do you have any objection to them building a new er mower store ? |
| 3 | A few of these difficult public-interest cases go , not to the disciplinary committee , but to the Joint Disciplinary Scheme : not more than about one or two a year , but each of them demanding a great investment of time and money . |
| 4 | Of course , we could scatter many billions of spores , thereby reducing the odds , but even so the possibility of even one of them encountering a suitable receiving planet anywhere in the Universe is vanishingly small . |
| 5 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 6 | More touching was the sad list of names in Sasbach churchyard , each of them representing a large loss in a small community . |
| 7 | Overthrown Tsar Nicholas II , his wife Alexandra and three of their five children were slaughtered on July 17 , 1918 , to stop them becoming a focal point for opposition to communist leaders Lenin and Trotsky . |
| 8 | I had always been appalled by the ease with which men seemed able to separate sex and love and now here was I building a high wall around myself and saying , ‘ I will let you into my body but stay out of my mind . ’ |
| 9 | Oversize exters bulging with weapons — an in the middle of em looking a thousand years old , Ten-huc himself . |
| 10 | I having a bloody |
| 11 | On one occasion while having a plate refilled she beamed at Silas , then asked lightly , ‘ Am I making a satisfactory hostess for you , Silas darling ? ’ |
| 12 | Or am I missing a basic point ? |
| 13 | Not only was I indulging a harmless pleasure , I was also doing her kids a favour . |
| 14 | Checking charts for Belfast Telegraph Plan 82 are available if you write to me enclosing a stamped addressed envelope . |
| 15 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 16 | ‘ Are you building a good memory to have of me ? ’ |
| 17 | Are you building a new skate facility ? |
| 18 | The mathematical odds against you producing a new miracle are incalculable , and there can scarcely be a permutation that has n't been tried before , but it has happened , and no doubt will again , that an amateur somewhere in a small garden with limited resources will beat the pants off the professionals . |
| 19 | And that is a er an A P I which is very similar in approach to O D B C in that it enables you using a consistent interface to get at any data source within the organization . |
| 20 | I wonder if that erm , really did revile you seeing a leading British politician shaking Saddam 's hand ? |
| 21 | A capable woman , nobody 's fool ; but was she adopting a deliberate pose ? |
| 22 | After all , we ca n't 'ave a nice lady like you takin' a good 'idin' from that ‘ usband o' yours , now can we ? ’ |
| 23 | Legally , I could keep you waiting a hundred years for the money . ’ |
| 24 | I mean you 're obv er to me you 'd there 's more chance of you getting a blue bead out . |
| 25 | You getting a little sister ? |
| 26 | ‘ Two people saw you holding a short conversation with Dominic . |
| 27 | Was she having a sly laugh at his expense , talking nonsense and then cornering him with a sudden question ? |
| 28 | She having a new one ? |
| 29 | yeah , done well , I might re come winter I 'll probably replace it , I wo n't bother now it 's not worth it with summer says she having a nice summer |
| 30 | Are you painting the pictures when you 're asking the questions ? if you could , fine , good empathy , you doing a good fact find , right let's do a presentation shall we , let's see erm , ooh , you do n't know how to ask for the order do you ? |