Example sentences of "[v-ing] i [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , may I thank Mr Bence and the editors for allowing me a few lines in which to formally meet you all . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 4 | 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 ! ’ |
| 5 | What with contributions to the housekeeping , the holiday was going to end up costing me the best part of £500 . |
| 6 | ‘ Any chance of anyone passing me the odd anabolic steroid , this week ? |
| 7 | shell landed forty metres behind me , causing me a disagreeable surprise . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | they pay , they pay , they are paying me a little bit , I think it ought to go up in price a bit though myself |
| 10 | But as the Con-Sec pointed out , while paying me an extra two quid for stepping into the breach , I could n't pinch Dave Swan 's act . |
| 11 | Mat. , she had managed to give the impression authority was granting me a great favour . |
| 12 | The second is a mutual agreement that substantive conditions of supply will hold , for example ‘ in exchange for you granting me an exclusive territory , I promise to sell only your products in that territory ’ . |
| 13 | While he was n't able to resist indulging his rather immature sense of humour by selling me a few dummies , my father could n't abide a son of his not being a credit to him in some way ; my body was a forlorn hope for any improvement , so only my mind was left . |
| 14 | He found it very hard selling me the smaller works . |
| 15 | ‘ The other boys keep calling me a big cissy , ’ sobbed John , ‘ and hitting me ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He screamed at me , calling me an evil bitch who had tried to trap him ’ |
| 17 | He screamed at me , calling me an evil bitch who had tried to entrap him . |
| 18 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 19 | It 's teaching me a little bit , you see . |
| 20 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 21 | Ceri ( 4.2 ) : My mum is buying me a new bathing suit . |
| 22 | The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the . |
| 23 | I am indebted to Mary Harpley at Reed for sending me a complete set of its Sunday Times Wordpower series . |
| 24 | Startled Bill , 76 , said : ‘ At first I thought what a damned cheek sending me an electric bill . |
| 25 | Thank you for sending me the closing statement for the above account . |
| 26 | The rest depends on Dad getting me a decent horse . ’ |
| 27 | D O yeah and ended up getting me a silly , puny , tiny little thing ! |
| 28 | This is doing me no good at all whereas it seems to be all me and my wife it 's but like we went to court , Mr and Mrs who were equally involved in it |
| 29 | I 'm fed up with waiting but out of town , it 's doing me no good all the way round there right round here some , there 's a home , she 'd have to take it |
| 30 | If you can procur [ sic ] me any porters for this , the finest and most perfect work I have yet attempted , you will be doing me a real kindness ; you are aware that neither pains or expense will be spared to render it complete . ’ |