Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea . |
| 2 | She was going to murder Margaret tomorrow , going off with Dennis and leaving them like that . |
| 3 | Loving both Augustus Egg and Pablo Picasso and visiting them for decades under the same roof , I feel sentimental about tearing them asunder forever . |
| 4 | He pushed the wadding carefully into the cartridge before taking it from Benny and placing it on the garden wall . |
| 5 | He held both of them for a moment before turning to Ian and presenting him with a sword drawn from its scabbard . |
| 6 | The Second World War set back Stalin 's hopes of completely rebuilding Moscow and replacing it with a new Soviet city , centrally planned and co-ordinated like the economy . |
| 7 | Last December they were instrumental in getting rid of Mr Gaidar and replacing him with one of those industrialists . |
| 8 | The prosecution say that following an armed robbery at a building society near Gloucester in 1988 White had been due to give evidence against Gardiner and implicating him in the crime . |
| 9 | Sheriff Michael Munro imposed bail conditions forbidding Cowans from going within half a mile of the Timex factory at Harrison Road and preventing him from approaching anyone known or believed by him to be member of the new Timex workforce . |
| 10 | But the building boys managed to draw 2:2 in reply on April 21 doing an Oldham and redeeming themselves in one of the last games of the season . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know why you 're wearing that ridiculous outfit , ’ said Robert , ‘ and I do n't know why you 're telling all these things to Malik and telling him about things I gave you as a present . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The others hatched plans for him , like abducting Constanza and hiding her in the depth of Calabria . |
| 13 | John received the support of Innocent against the Magna Carta which the pope annulled in August 1215 , suspending Langton and summoning him as a participant to answer at Rome . |
| 14 | While Jacob was still shaking his head , Nahum said , ‘ I believe I owe you and your gang a debt of thanks for finding Anna and bringing her to safety . |
| 15 | ‘ Thanks , ’ said Jenny , taking the traveller 's cheques from Adam and putting them into her flying jacket . |
| 16 | ‘ Where did you find this then , ma'am ? ’ asked the sergeant , taking the photo from Blanche and studying it by the map-reading light . |
| 17 | A central medallion depicts the hero grasping Antaeus and lifting him above the ground to sap his power . |
| 18 | But if the reputation as high-handed , unloved and ruthless stepmother hurt ( and it clearly did ) , it did not deflect her from her purpose of re-vamping Althorp and opening it to the public as a top-attraction stately home in a competitive business . |
| 19 | Just occasionally , she caught sight of the cooking pots bustling down the wagon towards Gabriel and pinning him in a corner , and then she would laugh and heave them back to the top of the cart . |
| 20 | He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader . |
| 21 | The tutor appeared unsure , but the boy jumped up from his place , rushing to Beth and grabbing her by the hand . |
| 22 | ‘ Comin' up , ’ Jenkins replied , uncapping a Budweiser and placing it on the counter in front of Laidlaw . |
| 23 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |
| 24 | They could also consider options looked at but rejected by the NGC , including upgrading the East-West Stella Harker line across the Pennines and linking it into the North-East system . |
| 25 | A famous one was dropping Ramadhin before the third Test in Australia and replacing him with Gibbs , whose Test career thus far had been fairly ordinary ; Gibbs took eight wickets in the match to see his team home and was under way as a real Test bowler . |
| 26 | You can get the same sort of information from a Mel Bay book but going to Joe and doing it in a rock/heavy metal format made it a lot more interesting and a lot easier for me to learn . |
| 27 | Throughout the Bible there are instances of tribal religion melting their heartfelt yearning for God and transmuting it into idolatry . |
| 28 | San Jose , California-based 3C , now trafficking as Super Workstation with ex-Sony VP Mike Hilgenberg in as president , claims it is making the LSI/Sbus-based CPU and frame buffer boards for Goldstar 's Sparcettes in the US and shipping them to Korea for final assembly : it also says it 's planning a Viking-based add-in card and is designing its own Sbus/Mbus 24-bit and 32-bit graphics accelerators . |
| 29 | It was of course a somewhat limited independence with the government of Vietnam announcing its trust in the loyalty of Japan and considering itself to be part of Japanese Greater East Asia . |
| 30 | Unionists were therefore soon frustrated by what seemed the weakness of their leaders in swallowing- Asquith and getting nothing in return . |