Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , we are generally rather poor listeners , tending to build blocks to good listening , such as allowing our own ideas and opinions to obscure the message . ’ |
| 2 | There was something about seeing him that way , first thing in the morning , dressed as she 'd never seen him before , in a cotton knit shirt and snug , faded jeans , that had made her throat tighten . |
| 3 | BRITAIN 'S big banks stirred up a storm last night after threatening to charge customers for using their own money . |
| 4 | Soon after Naxos , Athens undertook a big aggressive campaign in the south-eastern Aegean , under Kimon 's leadership ; this was perhaps in response to allied discontent at the way the league was turning into a machine for policing its own members . |
| 5 | Similarly , restaurant management have wider responsibilities for building their own branch 's business than would the managers of most branded operations . |
| 6 | All the components of this dialogue box can be freely positioned to produce a custom box for building your own applications within Quatro Pro . |
| 7 | In Norman Nicholson 's Lake District anthology , he is sensibly clear-headed about including his own work where he thinks it is useful . |
| 8 | Generally speaking , people in this room are sitting around relaxing ; they are n't bustling about generating their own heat so the atmosphere around them needs to be kept at a comfortable temperature . |
| 9 | When they behave illegally , they could be required to pay for publicizing their own failures , negligence , indifference , apathy , and greed , and also the names , photographs , and misdeeds of each corporate offender . |
| 10 | Thanks for seeing me this evening er |
| 11 | Right that 's , that 's , that 's lovely Ian anyway thanks very much for seeing me this evening erm well as I say I 'll go away and prepare some figures and then I 'll , I 'll see you what , what say Wednesday next week ? |
| 12 | What about bringing your own lights |
| 13 | Mr Trump , who has a penchant for naming his many buildings , hotels and casinos after himself , purchased what is now the Trump Shuttle from Eastern 's parent company , Texas Air Corp , in April for $365m . |
| 14 | The water industry in Britain is divided up into a number of autonomous water companies and councils ( Chapter 3 gives details ) and each is responsible for producing its own water bye-laws . |
| 15 | In addition to this kind of recording there may be a good case for producing your own teacher training materials , based on in-house recording . |
| 16 | When added to the tapering off of Soviet oil production , the ‘ opportunity cost ’ to the USSR of energy exports to CMEA as opposed to the West has altered appreciably — all the more so once these exports became vital for financing her own grain and equipment imports from the West . |
| 17 | President Elizabeth Diggory told the GSA 's annual conference in Bristol : ‘ Some schools are seriously thinking about using their own tests instead . ’ |
| 18 | They are normally responsible for purchasing their own uniform and music , and often their own instrument too . |
| 19 | A major obstacle to accurate prediction was the preference of many MPs for keeping their own counsel . |
| 20 | When his illness was at the active stage , he was very particular about keeping his own utensils separate from everyone else 's , and would joke about it , saying as he sat down at the table , ‘ Make way for the leper . ’ |
| 21 | Yet it has also spawned some monstrous offspring which include such distortions as a dismissive attitude towards women , a view of work as punishment , a view of pain and hardship as revealing personal guilt , a view of the body and anything to do with it as inherently evil , a view of the earth as the property of homo sapiens who can choose what to do with it , a view of God as an insensitive , self-opinionated , unjust task-master concerned about protecting his own property and the slavish obedience of the human-beings he has created . |
| 22 | The prisoner is serving life for blasting his former girlfriend to death with a sawn-off shotgun because she knew too much about his underworld dealings . |
| 23 | By understanding this example you will be better able to set about understanding your own situation and the things that control your own dieting behaviour . |
| 24 | But it was the mock-Tudor style which first caught the public 's imagination and appealed to the burgeoning market of more affluent self-builders who were happy to delegate the construction , says Potton 's PR manager , Richard Crisp , who joined the company four years ago after building his own Potton home . |
| 25 | Henry Skelton fell from a window days after writing his own obituary . |
| 26 | Mrs Browning had declared it was all too bad , too dreadful an imposition to have been responsible for and that she would not be able to look the Ogilvys in the eye ever again after causing them such vexation . |
| 27 | Nottingham Crown Court 's been told that a taxi driver sexually assaulted a woman passenger after ignoring her This report from Chris Throup . |
| 28 | After supporting them all day I could use some support myself . ’ |
| 29 | I was very pleased with the finished result , but I must confess , after wearing it several times , a few of the cut floats have worked through to the front . |
| 30 | I read this article a mere 24 hours after losing my own dog , a truly remarkable 15-year-old Collie cross Labrador who had shared my life since his puppyhood . |