Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Halden , of course , had no idea that he was helping to support his own daughter . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're really goin' to miss you both , we really are … . ’ |
| 3 | When I am so self-centred that I would not dream of asking the Spirit for his strength , preferring to go my own way , I am encouraged to recall that ‘ God is at work in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure ’ ( Phil . |
| 4 | They were not all written at the same time , or in that order : I had to keep struggling to write my own work as Dana 's poetic demands became more and more insistent . |
| 5 | The strength and breadth of these definitions and emphases were to prove encouraging to many institutions , and people in institutions , struggling to establish their own research policies and activities . |
| 6 | The staff appraisal interviews were conducted by the Head and the Deputy Head ( Staff ) , who claimed that the main benefits were : a report on individual teachers , agreed with them , on their personal file ( to which the Head added ‘ they 're helping to write their own references ’ ) , and clarification for the Senior Management Team as to what INSET actions they ought to take on the individual teacher 's behalf . |
| 7 | A forty-year-old ex-cavalry officer described by Spears as a ‘ gay and gallant spirit ’ appearing to design his own uniforms , de Rose was killed in a flying accident in May ; but by then his mission was all but accomplished . |
| 8 | However , even persons as brash as Heath had to recognise continually that the majority was uneasy and dangerous and much effort was expended in monitoring it and in camouflaging the government 's Irish unification objective from the man-in-the-street who , initially , was almost incapable of believing that a British government was endeavouring to cede its own subjects to a foreign power . |
| 9 | The enclosed experiments will , I doubt not , excuse this my freedom in endeavouring to give him this opportunity of becoming acquainted with you . |
| 10 | With a final decision expected in January on whether to scrap subsidised buses , the school 's vowing to fight it all the way . |
| 11 | Pete finds this hilarious ; he has been dying to get his own back for various things for ages and this comes close to the perfect opportunity . |
| 12 | For 16 months , like a prince in medieval England who succeeds to the throne before he comes of age , he was tied to a particular past and regime , hedged by his predecessor 's courtiers and advisers , living through his minority and aching to make his own mark . |
| 13 | There was nothing she could do to disguise the swift rise and fall of her breasts and his eyes rested there before returning to capture her own gaze . |
| 14 | She encourages customers to play around with samples so they feel they are helping to design their own rooms . |
| 15 | Arson , by people wanting to claim their own insurance — £407 million . |
| 16 | Various factions are at work , each seeking to promote its own interests — I 'd not give a fig for the young king 's life if he fell in with one of them ! |
| 17 | Similarly , the classes-in-struggle contest control of the state and its apparatus , thereby seeking to promote their own interests . |
| 18 | Is it : A ) Curtis Robb B ) Dave Grindley C ) Steve Smith Send your answer to : TSB Competition , Liverpool Echo , Old Hall Street , Liverpool L69 3EB , remembering to include your own name and address and telephone number if possible . |
| 19 | The popes pressed their primatial and jurisdictional claims with impressive continuity in this period ; using every appeal to them made by Carolingian churchmen seeking to bolster their own positions ; making a bid to establish the authority of the papacy over the Bulgarian church ; declaring its sole power to establish a new archbishopric as at Magdeburg in 968 ; and developing the special relationship with the new Polish church at the turn of the first millennium which would ultimately bear fruit in a Polish pope at the turn of the second . |
| 20 | At five past two Franco took the unprecedented step of refusing to serve him any more wine . |
| 21 | The exhibition is the highlight of National Individual Homes week , launched in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects , and is the biggest show ever staged for those wanting to create their own home . |
| 22 | Congress ( I ) leaders accused the government of vindictiveness and of seeking to install its own supporters as governors , and further maintained that the actions also went against the spirit of the Constitution and against the recommendations of the Sarkaria Committee which had suggested that governors should be persons not too closely or recently involved in party politics and that governors from one political party should not be imposed on a state governed by an opposing party . |
| 23 | You get the feeling that if a genuine utopia ever came into being , Matt Johnson would be the one person wanting to tear it all down . |
| 24 | He could not help her by attacking Havvie and creating an even worse scandal ; that would be self-indulgent , merely seeking to exorcise his own guilt for not believing her . |
| 25 | but that surprised the man in the queue and yet interestingly I think that and she said I was right in my assumption that that is part of the partnership philosophy of John Lewis that they work in partnership with their staff and in partnership with the community and they make their profit which is generated to start through the community which they sell to and therefore they quietly give back without wanting to play their own trumpets and in a sense I think that 's how it should be . |
| 26 | There she played most beautifully , pouncing on leaves and grasses as they blew in the wind , pretending to chase her own tail . |
| 27 | It was , said one speaker forgivingly , ‘ better to have him at Lloyds seeking to insure his own cargoes , than at sea seeking cargoes insured by others ’ . |
| 28 | Mr Clinton began his presidency wanting to do it all . |
| 29 | Kate quickly shrugged it off herself , not wanting to give him any chance of coming near her . |
| 30 | Even if no mining had been carried out , the courts decided , the owners of the mineral rights still had a valid claim to the coal , and in seeking to deny them this , the government was violating the Fifth Amendment , which prohibits it from taking property without just compensation . |