Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier . |
| 2 | Our wickets started tumbling the moment we went in . |
| 3 | In forecasting the future there is no certainty . |
| 4 | World champion for 10 years between 1975 and 1985 , he has , since losing the title , been doggedly pursuing the man who took it from him , Garry Kasparov . |
| 5 | ‘ While I am pursuing the offender I do not want blood on the streets . ’ |
| 6 | You 're not really ridiculing the anger I experience at your flippant pseudo-feminist attitude . |
| 7 | The Wolfenden Committee , reporting on prostitution in Britain , recommended measures to reduce its social visibility ( although allowing the phenomenon itself to persist ) . |
| 8 | In seeking to grasp this dynamic , and portray it , he had become enthused with the duende , the spirit unleashed by the flamenco — music and dance — which he believed to be the dynamic of true art and artistic expression : ‘ Repel the angel , kick out the muse , ’ , he was wont to exclaim ; arguing that artists must work ‘ from the gut , ’ with the conviction and intensity that the expression exudes ; allowing the life-force it releases to flow — torrentially , vividly , dramatically ; as in the flamenco itself . |
| 9 | was even more true to form , with Bernard Cribbins cementing the debut he made in Carry On Jack , but with the addition of Eric Barker , Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale ( who was to appear in a number of the series ) . |
| 10 | At the next table , the black African diplomat was impressing the girl he was with . |
| 11 | I 'm too busy trying to make a tape of someone mowing the lawn who is also trying to watch the Cup Final , who is trying to get the rest of the family to shut up . |
| 12 | After a hundred lines of the coarsest prose the final juxtaposition shows a gap of ethos as wide as that between Troilus and Pandarus , but more threatening : Her intended customer is the nobleman Lysimachus , and to begin with Marina speaks a docile prose with the bawds ( IV.vi.51ff. ) , continuing with aggressive word-play in order to shame Lysimachus into naming the vice he is engaged upon ( 66–91 ) . |
| 13 | The National Party had in March 1990 committed itself to maintaining the ban which then ceased to be a domestic political issue . |
| 14 | And traditional handbag makers are injecting more fun and fashion into their designs to appeal to a wider audience , while maintaining the quality which makes them so distinctive . |
| 15 | Do any of the districts want to be drawn on a choice or are you still maintaining the line which you have persisted in maintaining since we embarked on this discussion on Thursday , where we have two districts well sorry , Mr and Mr not agreeing in principle with the new settlement . |
| 16 | Even his devoted admirer and friend Robert Hardy was reduced to praising the ruff he wore ! |
| 17 | He began to notice how people deferred to it , seeking to mollify its tyranny : this business , for instance , of praising the compassion it displayed in healing old wounds . |
| 18 | Osman had recovered from his put-down and seemed bent on recovering the ground he had lost . |
| 19 | In the old days before we started building the bridge they used to fetch up on a bend about two miles down . |
| 20 | Before touching the body he had briefly crossed himself . |
| 21 | and he goes no , he goes no , I 'm not touching the bear I 'm not touching the bear and he goes , and he goes |
| 22 | It is worth reminding the House what the Bill , if enacted in its present form , would involve : the loss of 83 homes , the displacement of 326 residents , the demolition of four listed buildings , the destruction of well over 10 acres of property in two conservation areas , the destruction of a two-acre inner-city nature reserve of great value to the local community , the loss of 168 workplaces providing 1,620 jobs , the loss of 58 shops , 38 of which provide key services to local people , the diversion of a major traffic artery for a period of three years , a doubling of the number of rail passengers and a doubling of the number of cars and taxis coming to King 's Cross and St. Pancras during the morning peak hour . |
| 23 | For example , the following command will invoke the CLI command file " prntr.cli " and execute it , instigating the redirection which it sets up . |
| 24 | The pit acts like a telephoto lens , magnifying the image which falls on the fovea and giving these birds superb vision . |
| 25 | This rule has now been relaxed so as to permit reports of commissioners , including law commissioners , and white papers to be looked at for the purpose solely of ascertaining the mischief which the statute is intended to cure but not for the purpose of discovering the meaning of the words used by Parliament to effect such cure : Eastman Photographic Materials Co . Ltd. v. Comptroller-General of Patents , Designs and Trademarks [ 1898 ] A.C. 571 and Assam Railways and Trading Co . Ltd. v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue [ 1935 ] A.C. 445 , 457–458 . |
| 26 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |
| 27 | Sarah slipped back into using the name she had called her child at birth . |
| 28 | ( b ) Using the ratio you have calculated in ( a ) above to divide the profits for Year 51 , prepare a summarised Balance Sheet for Snow , White and Frost at 31 December Year 51 . |
| 29 | While still using the mirror he tried not to tense his neck muscles , nor to depress his larynx , nor to make the gasping sounds . |
| 30 | I would say that , if his life is such that he has to use a drug , the welfare is poor , even if at the moment of using the drug there is no unpleasant subjective feeling . |