Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Naw its jist the wey Ah 'm staunin' haw-haw yir patter 's like watter . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Surely you are not suggesting that my daughter — ? |
| 3 | Mr Young , though thinnish , had a habit of eating half his wife 's food as well as his own . |
| 4 | CB is also most unlikely to reach its ambitious goal of generating half its earnings outside France by 1992 , despite having started 20 new businesses in Europe over the last few years . |
| 5 | I still reserve the right at any time to doubt the solutions furnished by the modulor , keeping intact my freedom which must depend upon my feelings rather than my reason . |
| 6 | The parley was unproductive , with Miles demanding unconditional surrender of all arms and Joseph requesting that his people be allowed to return peaceably to the Wallowa , while returning half their guns for hunting . |
| 7 | And one prominent club , Bangor City , want to go even further by staging all their home games in midweek . |
| 8 | He 's so good that I 've ended up basing all my choreography around him . ’ |
| 9 | And now they had the immense task of reclaiming all this land and rebuilding all their homes . |
| 10 | In setting himself such a standard , Herbert sought to fulfil the ambition expressed when he was ordained : ‘ Though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued and the sacred name of priest contemptible ; yet I will labour to make it honourable , by consecrating all my learning and all my poor abilities to advance the glory of God that gave them . ’ |
| 11 | The sonnet concludes with him employing all his wit to make his love appear differently from what his experience tells him it is . |
| 12 | Until then , police are keeping all their options open . |
| 13 | Wilkinson admitted : ‘ I am keeping all my options open and I have been thinking about whether I should play Rocastle . |
| 14 | Cutting back on credit is absolutely essential to your financial well-being — and avoid keeping all your money in one place . |
| 15 | That 's another good reason for keeping all your inputs in a separate area . |
| 16 | If she had ever thought much about the future , I think she would have seen her mother sitting in a chair by the fire , knitting ; after all , her father had been dying all her life . |
| 17 | But Floy said , in an expressionless tone , ‘ Do go on , ’ and Caspar looked at Floy doubtfully , because he was not altogether sure of Floy yet and he had the feeling that Floy might very well be thinking and assessing and generally not revealing all his feelings . |
| 18 | Yo , you 're challenging all your efforts into a different way . |
| 19 | Oh look at her knocking all them balls of that |
| 20 | Are they relating all their assets to their goals ? |
| 21 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 22 | If I do n't watch her , she goes round opening all me windows . |
| 23 | Er might do it , oh that 's very kind of you , you 're dusting all my kitchen cupboards ? do the drawers as well |
| 24 | I have an extremely voracious moth in my wardrobe which is gradually devouring all my clothes ! |
| 25 | It may be an awareness of my married status ( of which my colleagues often jokingly remind me ) , or a way of squaring all my activities with the ethos of the KZ , or a simple boredom with the female face , but now my thrusts of love — so sudden , so hurried , so helpless , so hopeless — are exclusively directed at the source of universal sustenance and fruition . |
| 26 | Angus reckoned that fast business expansion was absorbing all her time and energy , which was why he had decided to take things one step at a time and discuss only business over luncheon ; a business chat would avoid putting either of them in a rejecting position . |
| 27 | This list of requirements might well succeed in eliminating all our ideas ; in practice we would be satisfied if two or three of these demands were catered for but very unhappy with a unit that failed on all nine aspects . |
| 28 | You 're slinging all my cards . |
| 29 | Benny and Eve used to tell each other in fits of laughter that he spent hours in his little room above the shop pressing all his ambitions into the suit with a damp cloth . |
| 30 | Can I therefore finish by thanking all our employees , worldwide , most sincerely for helping us write a further chapter in what continues to be a major UK success story . |