Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mind games were not always concerned with the past ; sometimes they involved transforming my surroundings into a fantasy landscape . |
| 2 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 3 | I sat eating my sandwiches in a grumpy sulk at the top of a mountain recently , while the pack of men surrounding a paraglider prepared him for take-off . |
| 4 | Just as well the control panel 's on the outside , Bernice told herself , saves me wasting my energies on a futile attempt to crack the combination . |
| 5 | It is on the Welsh border — and I am to reside there in my principality , pursuing my studies under the tutelage of my uncle Earl Rivers and the guardianship of him who has long been my chamberlain , Sir Thomas Vaughan . ’ |
| 6 | I felt as if someone was pressing my lungs with a steam-iron . |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ I sighed , opening my eyes as a series of splashes announced another chaotic event on the spillway . |
| 8 | I can imagine ending my days in a lovely Georgian house in the Paragon or Cornwallis Crescent , gazing at this wonderful view . ’ |
| 9 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 10 | Thus alerted , a sub-committee of the North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association met on the following morning and resolved that the danger could only be met by " a central organization of owners for the purpose of protecting their interests against the unreasonable demands and actions of trade unions or combinations affecting such interests " . |
| 11 | It is to the reptiles themselves one must turn to find the greatest display of armoured scales that are all-enveloping , protecting their wearers over the whole surface of the body . |
| 12 | Essex Water is giving a presentation explaining its reasons for the application and answering questions on March 25 . |
| 13 | At a personal level it was noble ; professionals plying their skills without a thought of personal advantage . |
| 14 | She was not grief-stricken the way she had been when her father died , but sorrow was a weight which kept her from opening her eyes on a world where she would sorely miss his company . |
| 15 | So to raise funds , some of the villagers are opening their gardens to the public on Saturday . |
| 16 | The return to rock means the supercession of demystification by re-mystification , giving people back their sense of worship , rather than forcibly opening their eyes to the nuts and bolts of how ‘ myth ’ is constructed . |
| 17 | During June and July many artists living and working in East and South East London have been opening their studios to the public , coordinated and publicised by the Whitechapel Gallery . |
| 18 | It is not the West End galleries however who have been opening their doors to the new generation . |
| 19 | The argument is , then , that a greater surplus can be extracted from this sector by not employing its members on a regular wage-earning basis . |
| 20 | Yet no election campaign has been as unctuously hostile to wealth as the Labour one of 1992 in justifying its policies about the poll tax , the health service , education , and national and local taxation ; and nothing in the public packaging operation left any reason to suppose the Labour Party had abandoned the assumptions of the 1960s . |
| 21 | To add to the general gothic touch , the now released pigeons fly around depositing their droppings on the dead body . |
| 22 | Now I think of an animal or a small child depositing its excreta in the wrong place so as to annoy its owner or parent . |
| 23 | Amid signs of increasing desperation , Bush appeared to adopt a two-pronged strategy , using his powers as President to take actions calculated to improve his popularity , while his campaign staff increased the negative content of the campaign by intensifying their attacks on the character of Clinton , particularly in regard to his attempts as a student to avoid being drafted to Vietnam . |
| 24 | Police reports on the night claimed that ‘ substantial ’ seizures of cannabis and cocaine had been made — thus effectively labelling those arrested as ‘ crack barons ’ and prejudicing their chances of a fair hearing in court . |
| 25 | Charitable work was also something that daughters could do without prejudicing their chances in the marriage market . |
| 26 | The problems faced by princes go a long way to explaining their activities during the lifetimes of their fathers , especially their hostility to their stepmothers . |
| 27 | The women invited me into their homes , lent me jewellery , materials , head-dresses and all manner of objects to draw , explaining their uses in a mixture of English and Arabic . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's what I thought , ’ Dana said , mopping her eyes with a corner of the towel . |
| 29 | Today you have watched our mandarins banging their foreheads on the flagstones — but not for our emperor ! |
| 30 | In a haggard era which finds loud lies smothering truths in every crib and pallet and bed , and with the older authors banging their skulls against the Wailing Wall , this young poet and novelist dares deny that the great God Pan is dead . |