Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't mind seeing them a long way off , ’ said the worried lady nome . |
| 2 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 3 | However the development , mainly in the voluntary sector , of segregated dementia day centres offers the hope that the needs of the large intermediate group of sufferers and their carers can be looked after in small , local , enthusiastic units , taking pressure away from the " ordinary day centres and day hospitals and allowing them a better mix a Policy Part IV of the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act sets out the provisions for local authority residential care . |
| 4 | When we got into the studio , I got Gibson to send a few guitars down for a try-out and I ended up using them the whole way through the album . |
| 5 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 6 | Then one day I discovered that he was borrowing them to show off at his dinners and returning them the next morning . |
| 7 | He began gathering the books together , handling them with exaggerated care and opening them a second time to gaze at Melissa 's signature . |
| 8 | Then his face contorted in pain , and she knew instinctively with infinite relief that it was the face of a man reluctantly denying himself the sexual release he patently craved by wielding a superhuman control . |
| 9 | In order to do this , you may find that first you need to look at your feelings of anger and resentment at your partner for denying you the ordinary experience of conception and pregnancy . |
| 10 | Simultaneously the work explores the very private , often hidden world of women 's personal everyday histories ; ‘ Each handbag has a particular personality of its own — on opening one a strong perfume filled the air , another was entirely practical , filled with hairpins and half a broken comb , a third contained a funeral card ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I just do n't fancy tackling her a third time . ’ |
| 12 | Adjuring Theda , in the prettiest way , to wait for her here , Miss Merchiston then escorted Mr Quatt to the front door , presumably bidding him a fond farewell in the sickeningly sugary tone she had chosen to adopt towards him . |
| 13 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 14 | This view , if it could be adequately defended , would successfully stave off individualism by denying it a significant part in social explanation ; but to establish the point is far from easy . |
| 15 | But what , precisely , is the theoretical basis for denying it the honorific title of " democracy " ? |
| 16 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 17 | You can make a ceiling seem much higher by painting it a lighter colour than the walls and keeping the floor a light tone as well . |
| 18 | Yet despite that authoritative vindication , the moment the PLO makes what might at first sight appear a slight regression to its old-style militancy , the US promptly joins the Israeli ‘ extremists ’ in pronouncing it a serious setback for the peace process . |
| 19 | He eased back from her , only allowing himself a partial penetration . |
| 20 | His interest is unashamedly antiquarian and he condemns the iconoclasm of the early Christians , proving himself a true product of the twelfth-century Renaissance . |
| 21 | Here the Bey of Tunis was building himself a superb mausoleum . |
| 22 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 23 | What with contributions to the housekeeping , the holiday was going to end up costing me the best part of £500 . |
| 24 | shell landed forty metres behind me , causing me a disagreeable surprise . |
| 25 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 26 | What we are groping for , what Pound ( we now see ) is inciting us to grope for , what Yeats is laying claim to , is that effect in writing which an earlier criticism knew as ‘ lapidary ’ : that is to say , the effect or the illusion of words as not written or printed on a page , but as incised on a stone block . |
| 27 | The thin pad can be rolled up and discarded with its coat of mulm , saving you a great deal of maintenance in the main filter . |
| 28 | Sippl 's new venture ProActive is staffing up , hiring itself a vice president of sales Paige Hiatt , ex of Grid Systems , and a vice president of consulting Bill Morton , formerly of ViewStar Corporation . |
| 29 | So — I 'll be writing you a boring letter about business matters , but ca n't we meet ? |
| 30 | I am writing you a joint letter this time , as I forget who I sent my last card to . |