Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My thanks to David Bogie , studio manager and Fish for their time and patience — and for allowing me to visit the Funny Farm . |
| 2 | I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon ( Mr. Amess ) for allowing me to say a few words on a matter that is so important to my constituents and to his . |
| 3 | With the leave of the House , it remains for me only to thank the Select Committee on Energy for allowing us to hear the Government 's reply . |
| 4 | The Parkinson 's Disease Society has been in touch with me , and I am grateful to its chief executive , Mrs. Mary Baker , both for information and for helping me understand the problems . |
| 5 | ‘ I told you , Murphy , that although I am immensely grateful to you for helping me to repair the shed to make a hen house and for finding me the things I need , these are my hens and I shall look after them . |
| 6 | Can I therefore finish by thanking all our employees , worldwide , most sincerely for helping us write a further chapter in what continues to be a major UK success story . |
| 7 | I would therefore like to finish by thanking you all most sincerely for helping us to write a further chapter in what continues to be a major UK success story . |
| 8 | The three , all members of the legislature 's trade and industry committee , were accused of having accepted $60,000 from the Korean Automobiles Manufacturers ' Association in return for helping it to gain the National Assembly 's approval for a package of state aid . |
| 9 | skin up The Clinique Skin Survival Kit is handy for the gym , for travelling or just for helping you to keep the bathroom tidy . |
| 10 | It is about helping them to recognise the resources that they have to offer one another and to use them effectively in response to individual interests and learning needs . |
| 11 | ‘ Changed your mind about helping us find the creature ? ’ asked Mr Crangle . |
| 12 | ‘ Mistress Hussey , ’ said the prince as she entered , ‘ we beg your forgiveness for keeping you waiting a little beyond the time we appointed . |
| 13 | The Potter whose grandmother employed the second and third kitchenmaids in question was , M. André Simon tells me , Major Matthew Connolly ( father of Mr Cyril Connolly ) ; and with his felicitous evocation of a mid-Victorian country breakfast table and those second and third kitchenmaids pounding away at the ham and tongue for potting he makes a number of points , most relevant of which concerns the kitchenmaids . |
| 14 | If my servant , acting bona fide within the scope of his authority , procures or causes me to break a contract which I have made with you , you can not sue the servant for interference with the contract ; for he is my alter ego here , and I can not be sued for inducing myself to break a contract , although I may be liable for breaking the contract . |
| 15 | Kenneth drove me here last Sunday after helping me to load the car with clothes , shoes , video recorder , sound equipment , books , photos , kettle , mug , hot-water-bottle ( never go anywhere without it ) and all the required paraphernalia of a season away from home . |
| 16 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 17 | Fennel can be bought as tea bags and one of these can be used instead of half a teaspoon and the bag left hanging in the tank for one day after using it to make the remedy . |
| 18 | It 's just so great to be on this beach at last ’ — Ffyona Campbell at Tangier after completing her walk the length of Africa . |
| 19 | But six years after qualifying he became a partner in Price Waterhouse and somehow never quite got into the pure consultancy side . |
| 20 | This morning , he would n't take no for an answer , and , after urging her to consider the idea and bringing her out here as confidently as if the whole thing were quite settled in his mind , he was now taking the ground from under her feet by playing devil 's advocate . |
| 21 | After deciding we like a band , we would consider whether to make singles with an option for an album , or to go straight for an album . |
| 22 | Two hunt supporters are facing a possible jail sentence after admitting they assaulted a hunt saboteur . |
| 23 | Mrs Allen , who had been suffering emotional problems following the collapse of her marriage , was given the weapon after claiming she feared an attack from paramilitaries . |
| 24 | After discussing what led a girl to become a prostitute they then set up a series of dramas showing some of the stresses ( including poverty ) a fictitious character had had to face in her early life . |
| 25 | ‘ After processing I mount the slides in glass to keep them safe , because they are more delicate than conventional slides . |
| 26 | I was torn between wanting him to get a doctor , and wanting him with me . |
| 27 | The Z86017 general purpose peripheral adaptor provides the PCMCIA bus interface and control logic needed to implement peripheral functions such as hard disk controllers , Flash memory cards , facsimile modems , keyboards , and local area networks on a PCMCIA card ; the Z86017 will function over a 3V to 5.5V power supply , includes a 256-byte attribute memory for defining which function the card is designed to implement , and costs $7 in large volumes ; samples are out now . |
| 28 | Disengagement is just one of many social theories which underlie what Phillipson and Walker ( 1986 ) call ‘ Acquiescent Functionalism ’ — ‘ a body of thought about ageing which attributes the causes of most of the problems of old people to the natural consequences of physical decrescence and mental inflexibility or the failures of individual adjustment to ageing and retirement , instead of to contemporary developments of the state , the economy and social inequality ’ . |
| 29 | These lowland soils are called Brown Earths because there has been only a small amount of leaching which leaves the humus and chemicals fairly evenly spread between the A and B horizons of the soil . |
| 30 | Female visitors were cheap , a point in their favour which continued to be emphasised as late as 1920 , when the Local Government Board considered the possibility of using them to inspect the homes of widows drawing poor relief . |