Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far I have discussed the example of the missile and its specific antidote without stressing the evolutionary , progressive aspect , which is , after all , the main reason for bringing it into this chapter . |
| 2 | Belated thanks for a delicious buffet the other night and , more particularly , for including me in such a happy occasion . |
| 3 | Two of these are worthy of a wider audience and thus I make no apology for including them in this month 's Surgery ! |
| 4 | She told me about seeing you at that nightclub . ’ |
| 5 | There are , indeed , impressive reasons for characterising it as such , but only the most committed proponent of this view would wish to deny that the defence effort and the scientific-technological base on which it rests can be entirely insulated from the problems we have surveyed here . |
| 6 | We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening . |
| 7 | For seeing her like this , so low-spirited : |
| 8 | How did you feel about helping her with those activities ? |
| 9 | I am grateful to the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) for reminding us of that in the last speech from the Opposition Back Benches . |
| 10 | And even when it succeeds , there is still a chance that after pursuing it for some way another gazelle passing in front will impede it and its first , tiring target will be able to escape . |
| 11 | After satisfying herself to that end , she rose presently to give them a chance to be together , and to allow Bishop Jon to awaken without embarrassment . |
| 12 | His flesh was red and raw , but even after wounding himself like that , which must have been pretty painful , he did n't stop . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's no such thing as a meaningless gesture , ’ he said , after emptying himself of that thought . |
| 14 | ‘ They must have a hell of a reason for wanting us on that boat . ’ |
| 15 | And I sha n't be making the mistake of attributing it to any charms of mine , either . |
| 16 | ‘ I came to my senses , ’ she said , economising with the truth until she felt more capable of handling it with any degree of calm . |
| 17 | As his hand came to her arm she lashed out at him and he caught her close to save himself the trouble of subduing her in any other way . |
| 18 | The advantage of using them in this situation is their low cost and the speed with which the wall can be built up . |
| 19 | Surely you no longer suspect me of using you in some devious plan to make Lotta jealous ? ’ |
| 20 | The challenges facing it were daunting : a considerable proportion of the UN was opposed to its existence ; the predominant political forces in south Korea regarded it simply as providing a veneer of international respectability for the creation of a south Korean state ; north Korea had no intention of helping it in any way and the United States believed the commission should complete its task swiftly and without asking awkward questions . |
| 21 | Police surveillance made communication between different groups difficult , while separate circles and indeed individuals were acutely suspicious of submitting themselves to any centralized underground authority even in the interests of ‘ the cause ’ . |
| 22 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 23 | ‘ Listen , Dan , Kate 's sick of seeing you on that settee . |
| 24 | I toyed with the idea of reminding you of all my triumphs , of my prediction of the ‘ 87 stock market crash , of my warnings about the ERM and the dangers of Europe , about … |
| 25 | The story was that Puig-Aubert would often snatch a smoke when play was downfield , and we lived in hope of catching him in such an act of Gallic braggadocio . |
| 26 | Other people may be frightened by your blunt arrogance , but do n't make the mistake of including me in that category … |
| 27 | I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |