Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Banning ( Robin Williams ) is an American attorney turned corporate pirate , who wo n't find time for his children ( Charlie Korsmo and Amber Scott ) and sees no irony in accusing them of childishness . |
| 2 | Angeli , who also was not in court , had committed a fault in selling them to the press last August . |
| 3 | ‘ But my intention in bringing you in here was never to enjoy the pleasure of your body . |
| 4 | It 's quite a nice little town , everybody knows everybody , and they do n't like to feel that they 're going to be outside of the sort of social circle that they move in , so it does have that effect in keeping them under control . |
| 5 | ‘ Berenice will come first , but we 'll come again and I shall take pleasure in seeing it through your eyes . ’ |
| 6 | Because she disliked it so , he found a fleeting pleasure in calling her by her first name . |
| 7 | She was not altogether surprised by her father-in-law 's absence , because right from the start he had taken particular pleasure in taunting her in this way . |
| 8 | He take a rather gloating pleasure in setting her beside Kee , and one imagines his expression as he writes — the isolate , turning over his secrets to make capital of them . |
| 9 | The Directors of Craigendarroch Country Estate have great pleasure in inviting you to a luxury weekend in Royal Deeside . |
| 10 | She remembered how Douglas , her new stepfather , had taken pleasure in showing her round Lomond View , pointing out the paintings , the antiques , the porcelain , the like of which she had never seen before . |
| 11 | Congratulations and best wishes were extended to our five newly qualified teachers and Peggy Secord took great pleasure in presenting them with their certificates . |
| 12 | Congratulations and best wishes were extended to our five newly qualified teachers and Peggy Secord took great pleasure in presenting them with their certificates . |
| 13 | I have pleasure in informing you of … |
| 14 | It was never in dispute that her action in removing them from Australia was unlawful in the context of article 3 of the Convention . |
| 15 | And if you recall when my Colonel read John plaque it attributes to him er the aid in assisting us at in the establishment of that memorial museum , John gave us a er and sort of took that apart and hauled it over to and it was flown back to the States and that 's going to be a briefing operations room for the museum itself . |
| 16 | The applicants accepted that the justices had jurisdiction to make such an order but contended that they had erred in law in making it on the facts of this case . |
| 17 | Ken lost interest completely , For the moment he contented himself with pinning the notice to the inner door of the club and taking great delight in reading it to two young black guys who had arrived carrying saxophone cases . |
| 18 | Adults take great delight in frightening them by invoking unexperienced horrors , such as being confronted by a Malay or a tiger . |
| 19 | Afterwards in the bar , Bender takes great delight in ribbing him over it . |
| 20 | I am not sure that the hon. Member for Leicester , East ( Mr. Vaz ) renders Mr. Hall 's case particular assistance in raising it in this fashion . |
| 21 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 22 | Parents may feel suspicious of these , or resentful , and will need help in using them to best advantage . |
| 23 | Your new low-fat , low-sugar , low-salt , high-fibre way of eating should be enjoyable enough to become a permanent way of life and be a tremendous help in preventing you from regaining weight . |
| 24 | ‘ I did wonder , ’ said Sophia at last in desperation , ‘ whether I had committed a grave social error in asking you to dinner alone when you may very well have a mother , wife or fiancee who should have been invited too . ’ |
| 25 | And the church as bible road to fame in alerting us to our responsibilities . |
| 26 | While hating him she had loved him , and , loving him , had no shame in wanting him to be her only mate . |
| 27 | The holiday is tremendous value for money and we feel New Millennium is doing a wonderful job in providing us with the opportunity to visit these Eastern European countries at such competitive prices . |
| 28 | erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate . |
| 29 | Giles 's motive in telling her of his expectations was so transparent that she had lost interest in him . |
| 30 | Obviously , if your document uses Monotype 's Times New Roman then there 's no earthly point in sending it to a bureau that has n't got the face . |