Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 2 | He was staring out of the carriage window , seeing nothing of the countryside because the image of Sarah with Corrie Palmer in her arms was superimposed on everything he looked at , and it was then he remembered something important . |
| 3 | She walked the short distance to work , seeing nothing of the beauty of the day . |
| 4 | On the west side , Ingleborough is a shadowy giant revealing none of the many wonders that attract its legions of pilgrims ; and to the east , green slopes rise with little incident to dark moors forming a distant skyline . |
| 5 | From the times of the original Glasgow Harbour at the Broomielaw in the 1660s , the atmosphere of the Clydeside had been acquiring something of the West Indies , the South China Sea , the coasts of Africa and India , and all the magic , terror and richness of the seven seas of the world . |
| 6 | The former Cardiff winger has his faults but so far he has adapted well to his new code and in a Bradford side playing more expansively these days is seeing plenty of the ball . |
| 7 | Stephen Wylie came to sixty miles away at Cheddar Gorge in Somerset … remembering nothing of the journey . |
| 8 | George Orwell was warning everyone of the plight of poverty-stricken masses , whose only salvation was socialism and not the sort recommended by vegetarian cranks in sandals . |
| 9 | At the time of writing none of the other firms is quoted on the Unlisted Securities Market or the Stock Exchange . |
| 10 | Jones was in his room in the Cabinet Offices , carrying on the routine business of a Labour Government , of which paradoxically he was throughout his life a consistent voting supporter , but enjoying none of the intimacy with MacDonald which he had achieved with each of the three preceding Prime Ministers . |
| 11 | They were mostly a little lonely and disorientated , enjoying none of the ( few ) advantages of the ordinary boarding-school , and too few in number to feel any sense of corporate identity . |
| 12 | She had gone through all the rigmarole of dressing and making up almost on automatic pilot , deriving none of the normal pleasure from the procedure . |
| 13 | The plants are also safe , these fish exhibiting none of the JCB habits of our old friends , the cichlids . |
| 14 | Instead I have to start by describing something of the unease I feel about its use and study within the literature , and gradually move toward a position from which I can either offer a definition of labourism or construct boundaries within which it exists and operates . |
| 15 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 16 | There is no money , the country is in a crisis from which there seems no way out , and anyone who wants hard currency is selling anything of the slightest interest . |
| 17 | But it is not every image that succeeds in suggesting something of the thrill of the hunt as well as curiosity . |
| 18 | The means of salvaging something of the disposition is to recognize that so far as the daughter has benefited under her father 's will she may be obliged by a trust . |
| 19 | And to the possibility of seeing something of the Sicilian town . |
| 20 | The companies who thought they were buying themselves employees to stack their shelves or deliver mail are getting nothing of the sort . |
| 21 | It was possible , however that from a licensed dealer they would be getting nothing of the kind . |
| 22 | Concerned specifically with the issue why there is no circularity involved in a justification of deduction which employs deductive reasoning , he contrasts explaining the validity of a form of inference — for which purpose we can use any of our knowledge — with persuading someone of the correctness of a rule — which requires that we avoid circularity . |
| 23 | Müller is once more exemplary in every respect , catching precisely Senta 's elated , fanatical state and betraying none of the wobble that afflicted some of her coevals , such as Ursuleac , in the role . |
| 24 | This type of joy is not superficial , for it is a costly experience , gained only through suffering and sharing something of the crucifixion of Christ . |
| 25 | The other six months are spent with churches in Britain , sharing something of the vision and challenge of overseas mission . |
| 26 | Lacking something of the Gondola 's panache , it nevertheless played a regular part in the Illuminations until 1961 , survived only one year longer by the Gondola . |
| 27 | ‘ Then I 'm saying nothing of the kind . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm saying nothing of the kind , ’ snapped Penry , leaping to his feet . |
| 29 | We are doing nothing of the sort . |
| 30 | ‘ I was doing nothing of the sort ! |