Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't mind seeing them a long way off , ’ said the worried lady nome . |
| 2 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 3 | When we got into the studio , I got Gibson to send a few guitars down for a try-out and I ended up using them the whole way through the album . |
| 4 | Typically , teen magazines like Smash Hits , were soon on the case and presented them as a ‘ new ’ band , although none went as far as dubbing them the customary , overnight success . |
| 5 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 6 | In order to do this , you may find that first you need to look at your feelings of anger and resentment at your partner for denying you the ordinary experience of conception and pregnancy . |
| 7 | Only then , as the brilliant colour swam into her face , was Lindsey aware of Niall , shielding her from the other man 's gaze , gaining her the precious seconds she needed to recover . |
| 8 | Adjuring Theda , in the prettiest way , to wait for her here , Miss Merchiston then escorted Mr Quatt to the front door , presumably bidding him a fond farewell in the sickeningly sugary tone she had chosen to adopt towards him . |
| 9 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 10 | This view , if it could be adequately defended , would successfully stave off individualism by denying it a significant part in social explanation ; but to establish the point is far from easy . |
| 11 | But what , precisely , is the theoretical basis for denying it the honorific title of " democracy " ? |
| 12 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 13 | They were keeping it a secret and they were going to take him some place where they sold parrots . |
| 14 | Yet despite that authoritative vindication , the moment the PLO makes what might at first sight appear a slight regression to its old-style militancy , the US promptly joins the Israeli ‘ extremists ’ in pronouncing it a serious setback for the peace process . |
| 15 | This is not merely a very bare conception of the world , but argument supports intuition in pronouncing it an incoherent one . |
| 16 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Any chance of anyone passing me the odd anabolic steroid , this week ? |
| 18 | shell landed forty metres behind me , causing me a disagreeable surprise . |
| 19 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 20 | Resources will be identified by assigning them a unique user-defined code . |
| 21 | The thin pad can be rolled up and discarded with its coat of mulm , saving you a great deal of maintenance in the main filter . |
| 22 | So — I 'll be writing you a boring letter about business matters , but ca n't we meet ? |
| 23 | I am writing you a joint letter this time , as I forget who I sent my last card to . |
| 24 | ‘ Here 's wishin' you a Happy New Year , Myles , ’ he said and raised the glass to his lips . |
| 25 | This was costing him a small fortune . |
| 26 | Make yerself at 'ome , said Mr Piggott , passing her an out-of-date copy of the parish magazine . |
| 27 | Hugh 's last scruples about seeing him cut out of the will were satisfied by writing him a personal letter of appeal . |
| 28 | Again Heston held a good deal of creative control over the enterprise , and made his point to Caulfield by writing him a firm letter telling him to be on time or else . |
| 29 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 30 | Sien was causing him a great deal of worry as the year wore on . |