Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiled benignly at Matthew , his quiff of white hair and heavy black-framed glasses giving him the air of a learned cockatoo . |
| 2 | One of the best features of modern gas cooking is convenience , so the ‘ Heatflo ’ oven of the Leisure 220 offers a choice of five shelf positions giving you the flexibility of cooking several different dishes simultaneously . |
| 3 | How much better it would be for ministers to be seen in the constituencies giving us the ammunition we need to fight on the doorsteps . ’ |
| 4 | She finished applying her make-up , the blusher making her cheekbones appear even higher than they were , her mouth full and tempting under the deep rose lip-gloss , her finely chiselled features lending her the appearance of an aristocrat . |
| 5 | He was being taken to a special boarding school when he gave teachers escorting him the slip . |
| 6 | He saw pliant girls offering him the laurels of victory before they fainted before his conquering feet . |
| 7 | A police force is selecting new recruits with the help of videos showing them the kind of incidents they might have to tackle . |
| 8 | A police force is selecting new recruits with the help of videos showing them the kind of incidents they might have to tackle . |
| 9 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 10 | The fighting chair on her aft deck had thick white leather straps giving it the appearance of a padded electric chair , while the dazzle paint gave the boat an oddly military look that was completed by the number 666 that was painted on her bows in silver-edged black numerals like those warships use to display their commissioning numbers . |
| 11 | My sister buried all her valuables showing me the spot so that I could tell her children where they were in case she was killed . |