Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can imagine a Soviet general fuming to see it around her neck . |
| 2 | It was a pity Wallace got injured when he did as I thought they were begining to hit it off together . |
| 3 | Lots of new developments on the hair-care front this month , so after lots of intensive washing , spraying , spritzing , tweaking , curling and crimping to try them out , here 's our pick of the best : |
| 4 | Resolving to pass them on to someone else as soon as possible , Robert took hold of both locket and manuscript and put them in his jacket pocket . |
| 5 | Benny was laughing to cheer them up and raise the mood again . |
| 6 | But at the same time I 've got a cartoon girl I 'm dying to get it on with . |
| 7 | Is your boss still being sympathetic about your problems , or is he itching to get you back to the office ? ’ |
| 8 | He untied the stern line , kneeling to lead it back round a pile to the cockpit . |
| 9 | Is this what you were wanting to see me about , Dr Darnell ? , |
| 10 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 11 | I kept pretending to pick it up and others , getting further and further to the door picking them up . |
| 12 | He gripped the bars , wanting and not wanting to tear them down ; escape ; be free . |
| 13 | One participant was Mrs Pat Scanlan , who had recently recovered from an operation to remove a spinal disc and decided to take up swimming to strengthen her back . |
| 14 | Looking down at the long fair hair flowing over her shoulders , at the skimpy dress , the unlived-in face , he felt immeasurably old for not wanting to sweep her off there and then and make passionate love to her . |
| 15 | ‘ Almost anything , ’ said Roland , suddenly wanting to put him off the trail . |
| 16 | North , badly wanting to shut him up , tried to convince him it was otherwise . |
| 17 | ‘ Good grief — you 're refusing to put them on if they do ? |
| 18 | She rocked the baby in her arms , refusing to put her down for a minute , and she sang snatches of lullabies she remembered her mother singing so many years ago . |
| 19 | Petty men seeking to do him down . |
| 20 | She was walking unarmed into dangerous territory , but something deep inside was urging her on , refusing to let her back off now . |
| 21 | Thus it may be committed by wrongfully taking possession of goods , by wrongfully disposing of them , by wrongfully destroying them or simply by wrongfully refusing to give them up when demanded , for in all these cases can be traced conduct by the defendant which amounts to a denial of the plaintiff 's rights or the assertion of inconsistent rights . |
| 22 | Relations between Modi and Madame Hébuterne became so strained , with Jeanne refusing to give him up and Madame cursing him and his art , that after a time he moved away to stay in the Hôtel Tarelli , 5 Rue de France . |
| 23 | Ollie was simply seeking to put him back in his place and enforce his right to control relations , situations and possessions . |
| 24 | I mean you 've co I mean a long , you know not that long ago , you were sort of tending to put it off a lot . |
| 25 | But that took about two years by the time , I purposely started smoking to keep it down . |
| 26 | I got to be careful about remembering to switch it off . |
| 27 | ‘ A lot of clubs are looking to knock us off our perch , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Mobium Computer Corp has moved to LSI Logic 's 40MHz chips for its new Mirage series of Sparcettes , looking to swap them out when Texas Instruments Inc Vikings become available : the IPS/2 comes diskless at $7,000 ; $8,600 buys 520Mb disk , 16Mb RAM expandable to 128Mb , three Sbus slots , Weitek Corp floating-point unit and a 17-inch 1152 x 900 colour screen . |
| 29 | Have , have you had a problem of remembering to turn it on , remembering the batteries |
| 30 | As a boy I would watch this process each evening , vaguely wanting to hold it back ( and seeing it , with adolescent melancholy , as the pinpoint of human existence fading inexorably in a black universe ) . |