Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only a few years ago he criticised me for speaking to the press and said I should never do it again . |
| 2 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
| 3 | ‘ If your friends ’ mothers despise me for working in a supermarket , then they are to be pitied . |
| 4 | Station staff knew everyone worth knowing in the suburb apart from the few tradesmen who made no use of the railway for carriage of goods . |
| 5 | good to use them for swinging in the trees . |
| 6 | . And they were n't the Victorian prizes , that I won , I we got them for getting through an exam , because you could write or something , and er tt well , they were quite good books , and it was one way of getting a book . |
| 7 | ‘ My brother said nothing to me about acting as a romantic go-between . |
| 8 | Sylvia had rung up me about booking for a meal and I thought , originally they talked about going a Friday night , and they said , Friday and Saturday are fully booked for the next five weeks . |
| 9 | There is no difference for me between working in a fashion house and working in an opera . |
| 10 | I find it hard to believe that this amount would be likely to deter someone from participating in a tournament . |
| 11 | There is increasing conflict between the church and state funding and we need to free ourselves from wingeing about the cuts . |
| 12 | Knives are now a standard part of the criminal 's equipment and it is very difficult for us to defend ourselves without going beyond the law , but there are ways — as you will see later . |
| 13 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 14 | The signs we can amuse ourselves by locating in a Daguerreotype under extreme magnification are , in the 1980s , all too abundantly clear to the naked eye . |
| 15 | Well he said if he accuses me of fiddling with the telly I 'll punch his fucking |
| 16 | John Ashenden , seated alone in the front nearside seat , debated with himself about reaching for the microphone and saying a few words about Somerville College , the Radcliffe Infirmary , the Tower of the Winds , the large , late nineteenth-century redbrick residences , St Edward 's School … |
| 17 | Until , that is , he realises what he has done , and feels cross with himself for walking into an emotional trap of his own unconscious devising . |
| 18 | The other landings that night had varied success : two Germans killed south of Le Touquet ; a seaplane stalked in its anchorage near Boulogne , but it took off — no doubt unaware of the intruders — before they reached it ; and the other party saw nobody after landing on a waste of dunes . |
| 19 | There is plenty of shipping in the Crouch . |
| 20 | Gradually , over the years , the colour of the breed became darker through mahogany to black , and there was plenty of crossing to the Hereford for its grazing characteristics and to the Ayrshire to restore milk yields . |
| 21 | Some will survive winter outdoors with plenty of lagging round the container so that the roots do not get frozen , and protective mulches , or plastic sheet round the top growth . |
| 22 | There was much of this , a few small side-bets , and plenty of mixing between the generations . |
| 23 | The area around Roznov is quite beautiful , offering plenty of walking in the valleys and hills . |
| 24 | Although invited by the Liberal Party to be their candidate for the Clapham Division 20 years ago or more , [ he ] was unable to accept the invitation , and contented himself with speaking for the Liberal or Progressive candidate at every available opportunity in many elections . |
| 25 | Albert was the first to know the Mr Gregory had lost his seat but had to restrain himself from swinging from the Assembly Rooms chandeliers in celebration . |
| 26 | He went to get up but his legs were numb from kneeling and he had to put his hand out to stop himself from tumbling into the water far below . |
| 27 | Then he slipped , and caught at the grass to stop himself from going to the bottom . |
| 28 | He only managed to save himself from falling into the sea by putting one foot on either side of the doorway . |
| 29 | He prides himself on delivering on the optimum date to balance the welfare of mother and baby , and his percentage of vaginal deliveries over Caesarean is amazingly high — which is great , these days . |
| 30 | Baldwin said , ‘ I thank God for your decision , ’ and applied himself to mediating in the coal dispute which continued independently . |