Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 2 | ‘ He hates to think of me having a good time , ’ said Camille . |
| 3 | We offered them on the basis of them creating a mass membership party . |
| 4 | A few of these difficult public-interest cases go , not to the disciplinary committee , but to the Joint Disciplinary Scheme : not more than about one or two a year , but each of them demanding a great investment of time and money . |
| 5 | Of course , we could scatter many billions of spores , thereby reducing the odds , but even so the possibility of even one of them encountering a suitable receiving planet anywhere in the Universe is vanishingly small . |
| 6 | They will play before the howling , hipflasking hordes of Old Stiffupperlippians , each of them wearing a red rose and not one of them a Labour voter . |
| 7 | Gone are the days when Grandma lived down the road and Auntie Maud was just around the corner , each of them providing a comforting and experienced shoulder for the young mother to lean upon . |
| 8 | More touching was the sad list of names in Sasbach churchyard , each of them representing a large loss in a small community . |
| 9 | They laboured inside , trailing their horses by the reins , half of them fighting a ferocious rearguard battle whilst the grypesh massed within the gate and strove to win through to the courtyard beyond . |
| 10 | What they were told was that erm a number of , a a short , short list would be made up , erm , with the possibility of them having a second interview , and they would be told one way or another whether or not they were getting a second interview , because we were n't in a position to say whether we were or were not appointing . |
| 11 | The hamper would be a present for the three of them and she 'd be thinking of them having a jolly evening . |
| 12 | In fact , gardens that are long and narrow are among the more simple to design because they can be broken down very easily into separate garden areas or ‘ rooms ’ , each of them having a different function or theme . |
| 13 | Until the end of the month a selection of them spanning a forty-year period may be seen at Matthew Marks . |
| 14 | Oversize exters bulging with weapons — an in the middle of em looking a thousand years old , Ten-huc himself . |
| 15 | I mean you 're obv er to me you 'd there 's more chance of you getting a blue bead out . |
| 16 | I know it is hard for those of you travelling a long way , but it is very disconcerting for the poor teacher to have a steady trickle of latecomers all through the lesson — particularly when most of the latecomers are not the people who have travelled furthest ! |
| 17 | The night before , a well-dressed elderly woman reeled towards him clutching a half-eaten burger and threw up all over his instrument . |
| 18 | He sent a lad after it to try to catch it and with disgust watched me limp towards him rubbing a bruised thigh . |
| 19 | He walked slowly back to his gallery-duties , by this time in the afternoon virtually non-existent — and had just got to the top of the stairs when he saw Gooseneck advancing towards him carrying a large package . |
| 20 | LOOSE ALICE , also known affectionately as Slack , shot out of the trap in a blur of speed and bore down on the man who was running in front of her squeezing a squeaky toy . |
| 21 | The idea of him telling a stranger anything in confidence would also be good for a chuckle any time but now . |
| 22 | Two removal men came past him carrying a huge painting shrouded in a blanket . |
| 23 | We took turns to lead , every one of us setting a cracking pace , determined to match each other 's resolution . |
| 24 | For all of us getting a good night 's deep sleep is important . |
| 25 | I have no hesitation in saying that this implies all of us seeking a simpler lifestyle and making appropriate changes to the way we live , the things we eat , the way we travel , and so on . |
| 26 | Is there any prospect of us having a workable electric car ? |
| 27 | I 'd just love to speak to somebody about the chances of us keeping a clean sheet . ’ |
| 28 | After all , we ca n't 'ave a nice lady like you takin' a good 'idin' from that ‘ usband o' yours , now can we ? ’ |
| 29 | The mathematical odds against you producing a new miracle are incalculable , and there can scarcely be a permutation that has n't been tried before , but it has happened , and no doubt will again , that an amateur somewhere in a small garden with limited resources will beat the pants off the professionals . |
| 30 | This thing he was putting himself in for was not ordinary athletics , but a curious hybrid of a sport which , it seemed to Jazz now , was so peculiarly rooted in the old British tradition that anyone pretending to come into it wearing a bloody turban was going to stick out like a clown in a gathering of clerics . |