Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABOVE As time went by , more and more people started bringing me injured birds to look after . |
| 2 | So you 're really clobbering them both ways , are n't you ? |
| 3 | Mr Symington had reached compacts with some of the tribes , allowing them 250 machines each , when the larger tribes took him to court to try to get more . |
| 4 | The Department of Trade and Industry has promised to examine whether charities may be able to get round this by using a clause , such as s 257 of the Companies Act , that contains special regulations for banks and insurance companies , allowing them different formats . |
| 5 | She was bringing them some papers and some photographs in a big brown envelope . |
| 6 | I realised that I get far more excitement than my heart and head can stand just from seeing my favourite sportsmen or women or teams fight their good fights and win magnificently , or lose unluckily ( always unluckily ) and my blood pressure would be much better off without even that vicarious sort of excitement . |
| 7 | Thus , I may consent to my daughter 's marriage , to be governed by the decisions of the majority , or to my friend 's handling my financial affairs . |
| 8 | My suitcase was stowed and I climbed in , drawing my long skirts around me . |
| 9 | Otherwise it is rather like spending several days journeying to a famous tourist site , but when we get there only allowing ourselves 20 minutes to see it . |
| 10 | Using my normal methods , I hypnotized Clive ; he was such a tense young man that I was grateful that he had already experienced regression . |
| 11 | Save using my good ones . |
| 12 | But I have no intention of using my past experiences to further my financial comfort . |
| 13 | He did not , as I had feared , ask me to perform covert assassinations on his behalf and nor did he insist on my using my eidetic capabilities to project myself into the noumenal world that he inhabited with such terrifying ease . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell me something … did you think praising my Caribbean designs would win you an ally in all these underhand schemes of yours ? |
| 15 | Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy . |
| 16 | Ram 's star trip is driving everyone fuckin' nuts . |
| 17 | They want to assert that homosexual relationships are just as valid as heterosexual ones and that it is perfectly ‘ natural ’ for some people to be homosexual if their inclination is in that direction and that those who profess distaste for homosexuality are denying them human rights . |
| 18 | of opening my settled features , |
| 19 | I did miss him , though , and I quickly met up with a new boyfriend , Mark , in whom I again confided about my strange ‘ food hang-ups ’ , as I called them , whilst keeping my other friendships quite superficial by always pretending everything was fine . |
| 20 | I would like to take this opportunity of thanking my fellow officers , committee members , teachers and all members of the Society for their support during my six years as Honorary Treasurer and I would ask you all to support the new Treasurer with the same loyalty and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 21 | Instead of whining about my memory I should be thanking my lucky stars I 'm alive at all . ’ |
| 22 | While I was shaving , peacefully surveying my baggy eyes , thick lips hinting at a recent cold sore , and ever-deepening wrinkles , I saw in the mirror something monstrous appear around the side of my grey hair . |
| 23 | Campaign badges and honour markings , yes , those of course , on the greaves protecting their right shanks — in many cases quartered and augmented with extra honours . |
| 24 | A pamphlet produced by the Department of Trade and Industry ( The Single Market — an action checklists for business , May 1989 , HMSO ) perhaps best sums up how companies can take advantage of the single market in terms of protecting their existing markets and developing new markets . |
| 25 | This too failed , on the basis that in unlawful means conspiracy , as in conspiracy to injure , there must be an intent to injure the plaintiff , and conspiracy should not be extended ‘ beyond acts done in execution of an agreement entered into by two or more persons for the purpose not of protecting their own interests but of injuring the interests of the plaintiff . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Those representing developed countries were primarily interested in protecting their own industries and jobs and security at the polls , not in protecting the environment . |
| 27 | See dockers are only protected , when they say they go on strike , they 're only protecting their own jobs in my opinion . |
| 28 | They 're protecting their own jobs . |
| 29 | ‘ They are protecting their miserable skins while Ireland falls further into my grasp . ’ |
| 30 | These models suggest that women 's and men 's subjectivities stem from female and male animals , universally different interests , in protecting their genetic investments and spreading their genes widely , respectively . |