Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] " 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 | One other scheme allowed for one-to-one tests but left the decision about including them to individual teachers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A sense of inner worth , and the talent for reflecting it in outer forms and appearances . |
| 9 | For seeing her like this , so low-spirited : |
| 10 | The other was the search in living tissues for the carriers or agents which determined these properties , i.e. the genes responsible for producing them in successive generations . |
| 11 | How did you feel about helping her with those activities ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | " There 's a regulation about using it for private matters . " |
| 14 | He says that the council is obliged by the government to take full responsibility for young offenders — and that includes paying for keeping them in secure units . |
| 15 | Here we 're talking about basing yourself for three weeks on that same golf course . |
| 16 | ‘ If she 's so keen to save a spot of money then she wo n't thank you for cheating her of eight grand . ’ |
| 17 | It suggests that there has been hitherto no perceived need for local authorities to assert the right for denying which in 1891 the court was severely criticised , or to use the right which was held to exist by Browne J. , to whom no submissions were made based on article 10 , in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 in 1972 . |
| 18 | A particularly interesting feature of the trestle piers was the method used for founding them on irregular river beds . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His flesh was red and raw , but even after wounding himself like that , which must have been pretty painful , he did n't stop . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's no such thing as a meaningless gesture , ’ he said , after emptying himself of that thought . |
| 23 | Francis insisted that taking Wednesday into Europe this season , after leading them to third place behind Leeds and Manchester United in April , was his career high point — despite scoring the winner in a European Cup final . |
| 24 | There is a further cause-effect or condition-effect relation to be noted , but it will be best to do so after noting one between causal circumstance and effect , implied already . |
| 25 | After coaxing him for 20 minutes , one officer grabbed the man — only to discover he had been bleeding heavily from deep cuts to his wrist and arms . |
| 26 | After turning it through 180 degrees , re-install it to give increased adjustment capability in the required direction . |
| 27 | So instead , a confident horseperson was engaged to do battle with Honey , but after riding her for two weeks Honey 's behaviour was worse . |
| 28 | ACTOR Clint Eastwood 's fan club has folded — after asking him in vain for a fistful of dollars . |
| 29 | He suffered burns to his upper body after dousing himself in flammable liquid and setting himself alight outside the offices of former girlfriend Sandra Sturgiss . |
| 30 | A Greek court sentenced Muhammad Rashid , a Palestinian , to 18 years in prison on Jan. 8 after convicting him of premeditated manslaughter for his role in the 1982 mid-air bombing of a US Pan-Am airliner over Hawaii in which one person died [ see pp. 36563 ; 36667 ] . |