Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well no I 'm gon na open Michelle and Andy 's and they 're gon na open ours I did n't bring everybody else 's cos we co we 're seeing them Christmas Day . |
| 2 | The scholar fed his pet dragons on the choicest tit-bits , bringing them rump steaks of the purest virgins and a daily supply of swallows ' flesh — not realising that such things , for true dragons , are treats , are after-dinner delicacies and no more a fit diet than endless chocolates would be for you . |
| 3 | I should have known though , should n't I ? — After him nicking them chocolate flakes , them crisps . |
| 4 | By revealing it von Weizsacker hopes to shake the dunderheaded British out of their lethargy . |
| 5 | Unesco was able to assure the societies of its continuing important service as coordinator between them and the Soprintendenze , also saving them 4% VAT , and making available an employee and its office in St Mark 's Square . |
| 6 | PLO chairman Yassir Arafat was quoted in the Financial Times of Oct. 16 as telling US reporters that he was " consulted … day and night by phone " by Ashrawi and Husseini in Jerusalem and that , as they met with Baker in Washington on Oct. 10-11 , he was faxing them PLO endorsements of specific negotiating positions . |
| 7 | You will be experimenting to identify any foods that may be causing you health problems and weight gain . |
| 8 | Success , she said , would be saving her £500 deposit , raised among her supporters . |
| 9 | Charlie was wearing his goggles when a piece of molten metal struck them , shattering the protective glass and causing him eye injuries . |
| 10 | It followed that the employer was entitled to dismiss him when he refused to go to a new site and was justified in refusing him redundancy pay . |
| 11 | We will continue here reminding you Mr Chairman , we will be opposing the budget that you have presented . |
| 12 | Then we 'll be bringing you Casey Kasem 's Wide World of Executions , with some remarkable footage of garotting in Morocco , burning-at-the-stake in Thailand and , for the traditionalists among you , an Olde Englishe Publicke Hangingge from Tyburn Tree in London , England . |
| 13 | Now as I watch the progress of the plague , The friends surrounding me fall sick , grow thin , And drop away . |
| 14 | You 're paying them starvation wages , and someone else therefore is keeping them alive , might be their husbands , it might be the state giving them charity , it might be the state giving them pensions or unemployment benefits , it might be charities giving them clothes and food just to keep them alive , and that that 's immoral . |
| 15 | You may depend if an opportunity should occur I will not fail to send a letter and I have to request in a [ letter torn ] fervor that you will post a letter to me at least once a week commencing from Monday next , with all particulars respecting your health etc etc directing them P. Office Launceston until called for , and when I again reach this place I will write immediately . |
| 16 | Outdoor shops are just sports shops , but instead of a seedy man with a moustache selling you nylon football strips and tennis balls , outdoor shops stock only merchandise connected with hill-walking , climbing , skiing and sometimes canoeing , all of which will be offered to you by rosy-cheeked young sales people in fleecy tops . |
| 17 | He had never forgiven his parents for christening him Clarence Wilkins . |
| 18 | They will then notify their clients by sending them contract notes — a ‘ bought ’ note in the case of a purchase and a ‘ sold ’ note in the case of a sale — accompanied , in the case of a purchase , by a request for payment prior to the next settlement date ( unless they are already holding their client 's funds ) or , in the case of a sale , by a transfer form for signature and return and a request for the share certificate ( unless they already hold it ) . |
| 19 | They want a spread of expenditure for the contract works So what we agreed with them is that we will forthwith start sending them client reports and I 've asked them if they will report back to us whether the client reports are in the form they want them . |
| 20 | They have built up a list of people all over the world who have been sending them football songs and now send Beatles covers as well . |
| 21 | Simply because the first mass-selling device , Hewlett-Packard 's LaserJet , used a laser-based imaging system we have grown accustomed to calling them laser printers . |
| 22 | ‘ We hope that by the end of the season every fan will be calling them AC Milamb and flocking to buy British . ’ |
| 23 | Within days of the report 's appearance , the Labour Party — after a two-years study that inevitably consulted many of the same people as the prince 's working party — announced a very similar plan , calling them Newton Institutes . |
| 24 | Kenny 's thinking of calling them Ken Coats after himself . |
| 25 | They 're calling them bus shelters now . |
| 26 | I made my way up to the lobby with those final two words of hers ringing around inside my head , and all sorts of other doctor phrases started to enter my mind — people calling me Doctor Streeter , popular songs with the word doctor in them — and then all of a sudden I started to cry . |
| 27 | Well , he keeps calling me Mr Robbie , because , for some reason , he thinks I resemble this silly character . |
| 28 | Do you really expect me to believe that it 's out of respect for my position that you insist on calling me Mr Vass ? ’ |
| 29 | Do n't try distancing yourself from me by calling me Mr Calder . |
| 30 | ‘ I want you to stop calling me Mr Scott , ’ he advised her blandly . |