Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 2 | Maggie clung to the privacy of her room , as small children do to their teddy bears ; she never invited her friends there , preferring to contain them in the large sitting-room below . |
| 3 | All the eligible mature men were married already , and it would not be fitting to contract her in a match where she was not the senior wife . |
| 4 | I say role because doctoring involves you in a kind of cultural performance , the gestures , the lilts , the motions of decent power . |
| 5 | The Scottish selectors , however , rated his prime potential value to Scotland as a prop and the genial giant is in the process of seeking to establish himself in the tighthead position . |
| 6 | Our early encounters with power may have deterred us from ever wanting to use it in a similar way ; having suffered from a cold , distant father or a smothering mother , and inevitably having attributed power to these parents , we may well decide that power is a negative force and not for us . |
| 7 | Seeking to emulate him in every way , he decided he too would have a multiplicity of spouses . |
| 8 | At no time during his life did Vincent show any sign of wanting to involve himself in the socialist movements of his day . |
| 9 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said , not daring to look them in the face . |
| 10 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ I have always gone to see her at Kensington Palace — well , I was n't going to see her in a railway siding , was I ? |
| 12 | But now he was going to see her in the flesh . |
| 13 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 14 | Reception rang through and said there was a lady waiting to see me in the foyer . |
| 15 | No doubt there were minions in plenty to see to the plane and Maggie noted that his sister had not come rushing to meet him in the car . |
| 16 | I truly feel that somebody 's going to pinch me in a minute and I 'm going to wake up . |
| 17 | So I think he 's going to find himself in a lot of trouble . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to exhibit it in an art gallery in Paris soon . ’ |
| 19 | I am going to play him in the remaining reserve games so that I can get a good look at him . |
| 20 | is also going to help me in an approach to Michael Shea , former Palace press officer and diplomat ( see Who 's Who ) — I met Shea last night at one of the three seminars and receptions which has set up to mark the summit . |
| 21 | Can I ask , I know we 've got Amanda Root here , who 's going to help us in the Health Action Area Report , I also know that she has an ailing child , can we then take the item eleven , health action areas now on page fifty-eight , so that we can let Amanda go back to her commitments . |
| 22 | A will have the statutory power of arrest it B was in fact attempting to steal something in the shed , or if A reasonably suspected him of being in the act of attempting to steal something in the shed . |
| 23 | A will have the statutory power of arrest it B was in fact attempting to steal something in the shed , or if A reasonably suspected him of being in the act of attempting to steal something in the shed . |
| 24 | IF ONE HAD been going to cast anyone in the title role of a movie called Little Big Man , there would not have been many actors in Hollywood one could have thought of besides Dustin Hoffman . |
| 25 | Is your mum waiting to put you in the car , Richard ? |
| 26 | Now this leaflet which I 'm going to give you in a moment er is called How To Put Things Right which i i is quite a good title for a leaflet like this . |
| 27 | And we 're going to do it in the most slovenly way possible , with a nibble here and a nibble there , leaving great |
| 28 | I 'm not going to leave you in the lurch . |
| 29 | This involves attempting to put yourself in the consumer 's shoes so as to identify with their hopes and expectations and finding ways of meeting these . |
| 30 | And they were going to put them in the shape of an arrowhead . |