Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enjoying my fishing , including the enjoyment I would have derived from seeing a friend catch , is more important to me than compiling a longer list of big fish than anyone else . |
| 2 | Are you considering taking a Hormone Replacement Therapy course ? |
| 3 | It is most annoying to have unintelligible chattering somewhere behind you whilst watching the fish or beating the eggs . |
| 4 | It said the shift maintenance manager , who was likely to be overtired , used spectacles to read small print or figures but did not wear them while replacing the panel . |
| 5 | Gurney , who scored 205 goals in his fourteen years with Sunderland , worked out a way of drawing the centre-half with him while collecting the ball from the wing then suddenly laying it back to the centre for another forward . |
| 6 | The idea of marking the site of Liddell 's grave at Weifang in China , and establishing the Foundation came to him while researching a book on Liddell . |
| 7 | This diversion was unnecessary , thought Bennett , and I fear this and many similar instances were to befall him whilst commanding No 8 Group — for example , the introduction of the Master Bomber role , and the Group commander 's broadcast prior to the disastrous Nuremburg raid in March 1944 . |
| 8 | Horace Walpole described her as having a ‘ paltry air of significant learning and absurdity ’ , and added that she was so totally lacking in humour that ‘ she repined when she should laugh and reasoned when she should be diverted ’ . |
| 9 | You can never describe her as having a particular image . |
| 10 | ‘ Old bass-voiced Ethel Walker , ’ Woolf called her and described her as having a ‘ rough-raddled charm , the result of living a regular herring grillers life ’ . |
| 11 | But she was not uncritical of tutors and students who were perceived by her as failing the wider aims of the WEA . |
| 12 | Merton ( 1938 ) , for example , does not conclude his exposition of anomie theory by proposing a solution ( though he gives enough away elsewhere for Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 , to see him as favouring a ‘ meritocratic ’ solution ) . |
| 13 | Although John was generally a quick worker , Anne Heaton remembers him as taking a long time over this work and seeming nervous about it . |
| 14 | ‘ We have no intention of interfering in government , ’ Itar-Tass news agency quoted him as telling a visiting Thai princess . |
| 15 | Although I rated Mr Smith quite high in terms of integrity , I did not regard him as having a superior intellect and throughout the negotiations with which I was concerned he remained blinded by a prejudiced belief that the only rule in Rhodesia which was tolerable or possible was white rule . |
| 16 | Brooke met Gerry Collins , the Irish Foreign Minister , on May 31 amid a public controversy over the disclosure on May 30 that the Unionist parties had rejected Lord Carrington , a former UK Foreign Secretary , as a possible chair of the second phase of talks , describing him as having a " deplorable " record on Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | An Army report once described him as having no regard for human life . |
| 18 | Ten years earlier a cartoon by David Low had depicted him as rejecting an appeal for advice by Austen Chamberlain ( soon to reappear on the stage of Baldwin 's life ) and saying , ‘ But you are Foreign Secretary . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I saw him as fleeing the violent campus situation in America for the peaceful English countryside on a conscious level , while on an unconscious level he would begin to set up the conflict in the small town he went to . |
| 20 | However , if the Insured intended to take the camera with him when leaving the car but forgot due to momentary inadvertence that would not be a breach of the duty of care . |
| 21 | I am not about to dismiss the poor as part of a force for change , but there is a great deal more to it than organizing the poor to help themselves . |
| 22 | Silas went on , ‘ You must also realise that standing in for Stella has more to it than turning a sausage on the barbecue . |
| 23 | The right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) can vote for it because he is opposed to a single currency , and the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup ( Mr. Heath ) can vote for it while advocating a single currency . |
| 24 | Antiques expert Guy Schwinge spotted it while valuing a house at Dorchester , Dorset . |
| 25 | The wood was roughly finished ; Melissa ran a hand along one of the top rails , collected a splinter in her thumb and stood sucking it while considering the possibilities . |
| 26 | I understood that my mother was ambivalent about marriage , bitter about her own experience of it while seeing no possible alternative for me , and that this must make things difficult for her . |
| 27 | My congratulations , by the way , to the public spirited Bristol climber who tested the number one wire placement on Hellbound by taking a 60 foot lob onto it while attempting a second ascent ! |
| 28 | Joe said he liked the sound of that , and could she bring her Bovril up and drink it while having a chat with the young woman who was resting her sprained ankle on his bed ? |
| 29 | And Bill loves the wildlife , he 's a dedicated bird- watcher although he hardly looks like it when servicing the huge polarizers that turn coal into a fine powder for burning . |
| 30 | When will the BBC wake up to the possibilities open to it when covering the biggest annual golfing event to take place in Europe . |