Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 2 | Allowing for those who were too selfish to want to help even when they were well qualified to do so , and those who were manifestly unsuitable to act as foster parents , because they were too young , too old or too inexperienced — a third , say , of the total , it was unrealistic to expect the Jewish community to absorb 10,000 refugee children . |
| 3 | The Barclays Groups , through its branches and subsidiary companies , provides a comprehensive range of financial services catering for all your personal needs . |
| 4 | Well because I think a thanksgiving service for victory and for praying for those who 've died on both sides , I think that 's perfectly reasonable , but a victory parade , goodness a hundred thousand Iraquis died . |
| 5 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 6 | Facing the realities of the background that has moulded their early life and finding forgiveness and understanding for those who , in the name of love , have moulded this type into submission , and learning that it is all right to show feeling and emotions will ultimately bring release and freedom to follow as their hearts dictate . |
| 7 | Angelica 's thinking that a bag of garbage has probably been carried along on the night swell and has become caught up amongst the pillars and the metal cross-tics ; there will always be somebody who 'll think that a couple of heavy stones and a drop out over the deepest part of the lake are an adequate way of disposing of all their empty cans and peelings and plate-scrapings . |
| 8 | There is a difficulty , however , if the seller is disposing of only part of his holding represented by a certificate or if he is disposing of all his holding but to several buyers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And if a chair 's sloping like that you could of |
| 11 | She was praying with all her heart that he would n't be too hurt . |
| 12 | ‘ What 's wrong with him ? ’ she asked , praying with all she had that it was n't serious . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It was the biggest small ramp of its time and there was always a good long hard grinding session happening with all my bros from near and far . ’ |
| 15 | By a miracle I found I could do it : standing upright on the pedals and pedalling with all my might I reached the road , where Nora was waiting for me . |
| 16 | He helped establish the Liverpool Medical Society ( of which he was secretary from 1833 and president 1836–8 ) and also the Liverpool Medical Institution ( becoming in 1840 its first secretary ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The King , understandably enough , did not thank Asquith for implying that he would deviate from the role of strict constitutionality by denying to Labour what he had given to the other parties . |
| 22 | No I keep on landing on that one |
| 23 | Under the system of cash accounting , all three categories are dealt with in the same way : cash payments relating to each one are recorded as cash flows in the year in which they occur . |
| 24 | A special analysis of the General Household Survey data for 1973–5 , relating to those who reported restricted activity or long-standing illness who went to a GP specifically for that illness , showed greater socio-economic inequalities among men . |
| 25 | Musing on all I had seen , I hummed an old Eileen Donaghue song , ‘ The Homes of Donegal ’ . |
| 26 | He thought the better of pressing on that one too |
| 27 | The Economist of March 16 reported that Asia was the main source of the world 's migrants , refugees and foreign workers , the most dramatic increase occurring among those who found work , either legally or illegally , in Japan , Taiwan and the Gulf ( until the conflict there ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes thank you , Papa , ’ Artemis replied , not understanding at all what her father meant . |
| 29 | Consisting of eighty-five lots of modern Chinese paintings , it was expected to realize in excess of $2million ( NT$50million ) . |
| 30 | This means you can shoot your way down a line of troops , picking off each one in turn . |