Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he was away she never stopped reminding us at the top of her voice that she was n't a five by two . |
| 2 | Many ageing people need to understand and accept the changes in their sexuality in order to continue enjoying it to the full . |
| 3 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 4 | There have been some centres who felt that the American data has justified using it at an early stage . |
| 5 | There was a spare one lying around We 'd finished u er stopped using them during the war some time during the war . |
| 6 | The superintendents … have at least stopped using it in a noisy and disagreeable way |
| 7 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 8 | She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her . |
| 9 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
| 10 | It proposed bringing him before a tribunal of officers . |
| 11 | However , as a very occasional desperation measure if a flower or leaf is useless because it has inadvertently been creased or folded , I have been known to try pressing it with an iron on the lowest setting . |
| 12 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 13 | Be here on time and do your work well and I might consider hiring you on a regular basis once the child is born . ’ |
| 14 | It could be that your owner might consider replacing you with a Basenji if you do n't quieten down , and your nose will be properly put out of joint . |
| 15 | I shall quite enjoy taming you over the next couple of weeks . ’ |
| 16 | The Hammers are considering a move for the 31-year-old , but Crosby said : ‘ I would n't consider selling him at the moment . ’ |
| 17 | " And I would so enjoy turning it into the best school of its kind in Frizingley . |
| 18 | ‘ Did you enjoy trapping me in the library ? ’ asked Mr Fractor . |
| 19 | So I intended to try flying her for the assembly , and carefully got her down to her flying weight . |
| 20 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 21 | I 've even considered reporting it to the health people |
| 22 | ‘ She did n't consider accompanying you on the search for her daughter ? ’ |
| 23 | Comrades , it 's time that this union , along with other trade unions , made it absolutely clear to the Labour leadership , we are the Labour Party , it is us that gives resources , our time , our money , everything to try and get them elected and it 's time they stopped kicking us in the teeth at times such as this . |
| 24 | They , they stopped having them on the , the seafront anyway . |
| 25 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 26 | Alison 's contemporary Heather , who is a data editor , has ‘ had a sip of one ’ but has never ‘ considered drinking it as an alternative to alcohol ’ . |
| 27 | Rather than give young children charcoal immediately on presentation , we suggest confining it to the few who develop symptoms — in a dose sufficient to increase elimination of the drug . |
| 28 | The Pritchards have n't given up yet , but they say putting them in a council house would be like putting them in prison . |
| 29 | But young children had reported spotting him inside the school , putting paper on to the fire . |
| 30 | He then tried putting them on the roll — about tyre . |