Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , may I thank Mr Bence and the editors for allowing me a few lines in which to formally meet you all . |
| 2 | But what , precisely , is the theoretical basis for denying it the honorific title of " democracy " ? |
| 3 | In order to do this , you may find that first you need to look at your feelings of anger and resentment at your partner for denying you the ordinary experience of conception and pregnancy . |
| 4 | FURTHER intelligence about the amazing Mr Humphrey Berkeley , who left the Conservative Party after bequeathing it an elective system for choosing its leaders , joined Labour , then moved on to the SDP , only to resign from it , too . |
| 5 | We did n't want to pop in else your father would be saying that we 're after selling you a new hat again , knowing your weakness for hats . ’ |
| 6 | I held them off with steelies and stones , and they fired back with air-guns , and for a while it was quite exciting , but then Mrs Clamp came with the weekly messages and threatened to call the police , and after calling her a few nasty names they left . |
| 7 | Neither spoke on the journey , but , after wishing her a formal ‘ Godnat ’ on the threshold of the hotel , he added casually , ‘ I 'll pick you up here at nine tomorrow morning and we can decide where to continue our search . ’ |
| 8 | Severn Trent which held the record for disconnections last year , the chief executive , Roderick sold one hundred and thirty seven thousand shares at four hundred and eighty eight P under a share options scheme , and that was after buying them the same day , for two hundred and sixty two P . |
| 9 | Trustingly she slipped a small hand into one of his , and she would have gone with him anywhere , but he detached her fingers after giving them a reassuring squeeze . |
| 10 | After giving you the brush-off , as you thought , and then bellowing and being so bloody judgemental at the time Simon crashed , I had n't come over as either sensitive or supportive . |
| 11 | In spring mulch the soil around it well after giving it a good soaking , this will encourage the soil to stay moist . |
| 12 | He first became a player-manager at 28 and in his time the 41-year-old Buckley has won three promotions , the Bob Lord trophy with Kettering — and been sacked by Walsall after making them the highest scoring team in the four Divisions . |
| 13 | I 'm still sort of puzzling what the best thing , best thing to do for that hedge down there . |
| 14 | erm it seemed so disappointing to me that I mean we go to the bother of producing what a fifty odd page telephone directory and people do n't even look at it |
| 15 | She gulped , barely capable of denying herself the inevitable . |
| 16 | Fearful of waking him a second time I waited . |
| 17 | I did think of paying them a non-means-tested benefit in exchange for abstention , but I 'm sure I 'd never get the figures past Margaret Beckett . |
| 18 | Instead of paying everybody the same state pension , the state should protect those in need adequately , and leave the rest to look after themselves . |
| 19 | Strategic planning is the business of deciding what the main goals of the organization are and what policies should be adopted in pursuing them . |
| 20 | On the outbreak of World War I Herbert joined the Irish Guards , despite his near-blindness , by the simple method of buying himself a second lieutenant 's uniform and falling in as the regiment boarded ship for France in August 1914 . |
| 21 | This distinction between the effort of the CBHPs and the effort of communities is a useful one in that CBHPs can not take upon themselves the role of providing what a national government can not or will not provide . |
| 22 | The thought of facing her the next day was quite terrifying , but not an obligation Meryl intended to shirk . |
| 23 | I must take the opportunity of saying what a marvellous job I thought both Captains did . |
| 24 | Just now , however , the land was dry , the pool a perfect mirror , moss on the statuary below giving it a rich green colour , like a tarnished bronze . |
| 25 | I 'm not asking you to help me , but at least you can let me get on with things instead of badgering me the whole time . |
| 26 | Some years later the influential Republican senator , Robert Taft , was still exploiting the American belief that the British were " the best propagandists and the most unprincipled people " in the world when he accused Acheson , the then US secretary of state , of doing whatever the British asked him to do . |
| 27 | What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain . |
| 28 | She was standing straight , looking in his direction but seemingly through him , and the strange look on her face brought him around fully , and he was about to speak , not with the intention of giving her the true version of why he wanted to volunteer , for it was n't in him to hurt her to that extent , but she turned from him and , quietly opening the door , went out . |
| 29 | This has the positive advantage of giving them a broad-based appeal across a diversified range of industries and functions and always having somebody in the team who can potentially suit the chemistry of a particular client . |
| 30 | ‘ We will make sure they go to families who are capable of giving them a good home , ’ said Mrs Henderson . |