Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their father who had started the business , although retired , was still usually to be found there , hovering in the background , his full white beard reminding me of Father Christmas . |
| 2 | I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst . |
| 3 | There was a fair wind spattering them with rain as they made their descent to the beach . |
| 4 | For the whole basis of Sartre 's argument is that the dialectic of history is not a metaphysical law , ‘ some powerful unitary force revealing itself behind History like the will of God ’ , but the continuously produced effect of individual conflicts ; each action is in its turn subsumed as a part of the whole in an ever broader , developing totalization ( I , 37 ) . |
| 5 | She was aware of a prickly sensation along the back of her neck warning her of danger . |
| 6 | At around two years , there is another driving force pushing her towards independence : the desire to be like everyone else . |
| 7 | Subjects were asked to try five types of toilet seat ranking them in order of preference . |
| 8 | The US sample scores lowest for clarity of problem understanding and production involvement in design , probably representing the standing of the production function in the USA in this industry and the communication gap separating it from R&D , another cultural factor . |
| 9 | The rule that cases should be prepared for trial by someone other than the advocate presenting them in court should not apply to solicitors , the committee said . |
| 10 | In this speech , Mr Patten confirmed himself as the leading exponent in the Cabinet of a traditional Toryism owing nothing to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 11 | The headline in the London Evening Standard 's report — I 'm sorry , says man on murder charge — was transformed the next day into the more familiar story of girl hitch-hiker getting herself into trouble . |
| 12 | Tikva , a 26-year-old Israeli , has impressed on trial at the City Ground with the Belgian club pricing him at £500,000 . |
| 13 | it 's actually good practice having somebody like Martin then |
| 14 | The defendant was arraigned on an indictment charging him with murder . |
| 15 | At the resumed hearing a nolle prosequi was entered pursuant to section 4(1) of the Criminal Justice ( Administration ) Act The defendant was tried on a second indictment charging him with murder , convicted and sentenced to death . |
| 16 | The April issue contained a letter from R.W. Salem describing his Regal Tang scratching itself against rocks and gulping air from the surface . |
| 17 | In the carriage taking me into town , I cried a little . |
| 18 | The children were killed when masked gunmen opened fire on the minibus taking them to school . |
| 19 | He is required to disregard the interests of the institution appointing him in favour of the shareholders as a whole . |
| 20 | I remember mummy putting us to bed at six . |
| 21 | They shouted from their car telling him to cycle properly . |
| 22 | But those who participate have to sign a non-competition deal preventing them from leaving to work with a rival consortium . |
| 23 | Prime ministerial power , and therefore prime ministerial government is challenged ; Cabinet government and collective responsibility are challenged because of the claim that the first allegiance of a Labour minister is not to the Cabinet but to the mandate given by the party conference ; parliamentary government and the autonomy of MPs to deliberate as representatives is challenged through the notion of mandate reducing them to delegates ; and liberal-democracy itself is challenged because of a refusal to accept limits to participation and to the role of the state in the struggle to attain socialism through democracy . |
| 24 | Stella tries to look after her sister showering her with compliements to try to get Stanley to ‘ understand her and be nice to her . ’ |
| 25 | It 's the usual imaginative , expensive production , in this case whisking us from London to New York to New Orleans . |
| 26 | Painting is valuable because people who may have difficulty expressing themselves in words can get some of their feelings down in a picture . |
| 27 | Several rioters were killed during an attack on a mill using them at Salford in 1812 , but few manufacturers had as yet introduced them , or were intending to in the near future , and disturbances were intermingled with food riots and political agitation . |
| 28 | It was Barron who had made a show of looking at the figures but it was MacQuillan who had screamed at Pascoe down the telephone accusing him of fraud . |
| 29 | Her last entry reads : ‘ Letter from girl thanking us for concert tickets . |
| 30 | His Anglican faith was visible rather than assiduous ; he apologises in his diaries for his work keeping him from church on Sundays . |