Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should , of course , in the event that they began disposing of those I like — you , Sunil , that rather delicious young Wu and that engaging Armenian . |
| 2 | And if a chair 's sloping like that you could of |
| 3 | ‘ What 's wrong with him ? ’ she asked , praying with all she had that it was n't serious . |
| 4 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 5 | The size of the new government 's legislative majority was also considered to be destabilizing in that it would encourage factionalism within the National Party . |
| 6 | I am employed here as a nurse in the premature baby intensive care unit and I 'm certainly kept very busy , the work often made more difficult but challenging in that I work alongside people from around 30 different countries . |
| 7 | After qualifying in 1986 he decided to spend a couple of years working outside the profession to gain experience in merchant banking or venture capital . |
| 8 | These are self-report inventories where the testee has the possibility of cheating in that he can respond with an answer which he considers will give him a good score rather than providing a completely truthful one . |
| 9 | Musing on all I had seen , I hummed an old Eileen Donaghue song , ‘ The Homes of Donegal ’ . |
| 10 | Without waiting for his reply , she yawned once more , curled up as best she could , and , acting for all she was worth , let her head loll as if sleep had already claimed her . |
| 11 | ‘ Not looking like this you wo n't ! |
| 12 | As the plain rose towards the plateau , I saw two poles in the ground ; with a rag flapping from each they looked like wind socks . |
| 13 | He described the celebration of saints ' days and festivals as manifestations of the ‘ splendid outward dignity of our religion , forcible witnesses of ancient truth , provocations to the exercise of all piety , shadows of our endless felicity in heaven … wherein they which can not be drawn to hearken unto what we teach may only by looking upon that we do , in a manner read whatsoever we believe ’ . |
| 14 | Level of intelligence affects communicating in that it influences learning ability . |
| 15 | After leaving school at 16 , she began to draw more and more : ‘ It is quite close to acting in that it 's to do with reflecting on life — how you see people and the fascination of trying to distil the essence of a person . |
| 16 | In a Legislative Council meeting in 1937 he accused the government of pampering the Masai and condoning such ‘ vile practices ’ as ‘ the repeated rape of immature girls ’ in manyattas . |
| 17 | At a British Factory meeting in 1808 it was agreed to ask the British Consul-General to arrange a suitable piece of land for building a British Protestant church . |
| 18 | Dating from 1911 they not only show how he moved towards complete abstraction but also his unflagging inventiveness . |
| 19 | Listening to this I on the whole thought that in a real sense he never really quite answered them , on the other hand he made every single person look silly . |
| 20 | After listening to this it 's obvious there 's still hope . |
| 21 | ‘ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ ’ the minister warned them ; ‘ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad . ’ |
| 22 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |
| 23 | One thing is certain , that the last Lord Derwentwater , not long before his death , was frequently at Keswick , but according to Green it is not equally certain , that he then ( as is affirmed by some ) inhabited the house upon the island ; on the contrary , it rather seems that his being at Keswick , was only on visits from his family place at Dilston . |
| 24 | However , you may feel more inclined towards intuitive aromatherapy whereby the person is allowed to choose their own oil or blend of oils according to those they like best . |
| 25 | He adapted what he had to say according to those he was concerned with and their situation . |
| 26 | ‘ Incidentally , according to this we 're both down for beds tonight . |
| 27 | ‘ According to this we 've to keep an eye out for anything — or anybody — suspicious . |
| 28 | According to this it does . |
| 29 | According to this it 's cloud . |
| 30 | Yeah , according to this it says |