Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 2 | The fire brigade reappeared , bringing them some council inspector , who obviously wanted to evacuate the house . |
| 3 | ‘ Only I been sufferin' 'orrible suspicions about endin' up gettin' me own throat cut . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ — weaving my own bed linen and keeping bees and putting up preserves . ’ |
| 5 | can I just just pursue that you said said so the if you embarked on another scenario , and you said that the only way in which extra over , that beyond the figure proposed by the County Council , would be by way of a new settlement , I 'm sort of transgressing my own ground rules here , I know that Ryedale has expressed support for the principle of a new settlement , are you saying that you would be looking for a new settlement , possibly in Ryedale ? |
| 6 | Significantly , 81 per cent gave protecting their own provider units a low ranking , a marked change from the previous year and in line with the case study findings . |
| 7 | From 1968 , the PLO sent raiding parties into Israel from southern Lebanon and the Israelis responded by launching their own revenge raids , often against Lebanese villages . |
| 8 | Others believe that Mrs Aquino , by making a political decision on grounds of national security , is transgressing her own leadership principles . |
| 9 | The report also calls on the Government to " exert as much pressure as possible on all international fora to ensure that worldwide action is taken to combat global warming " , but stresses that the UK should " set an example … by seriously tackling its own emissions problems in advance of international understanding " . |
| 10 | Banks would lend money more freely and , in fattening their own balance sheets , would feed credit-starved economies . |
| 11 | The usual way , however , is to start by using an agent , then opening its own sales office with a limited number of staff and , once profits start to show , allow the unit to become self-sufficient and expand ultimately into manufacturing . |
| 12 | At the time , the teenaged Bowie and Roxy Music fan dreamt of getting out of the rain and opening his own record shop . |
| 13 | Rhee was concerned with consolidating his own power base , building up the strength of his regime , securing American economic and military assistance , and with achieving the unification of Korea under his leadership : this would be the crowning attainment of his long struggle . |
| 14 | His father , a Scotsman , had been gardener to a gentleman at Bromley before founding his own market gardening business at Deptford and , in the diary of Pehr Kalm , details about Miller 's early life are found . |
| 15 | IF Norman Lamont goes ahead with a tax on food he will be signing his own death sentence . |
| 16 | Turning , he leaned against a rock and scribbled a few sentences — with the air of a man signing his own death warrant , I thought . |
| 17 | Similarly the Faber book-jackets , designed by Berthold Wolpe in the 1960s employing his own typeface Albertus , convey a sense of literary energy and creativity . |
| 18 | He managed three points in 1976 driving his own Copersucar Ford , 11 in 1977 , 17 in 1978 , 1 in 1979 , 3 in 1980 and absolutely nothing in 1981 , the year when he finally stopped racing his own cars and quit F1 . |
| 19 | What are the advantages of using executive search companies over employing your own recruiting facilities ? |
| 20 | It is , hover , a move against what HC sees as an intolerable trend towards wholesalers ordering in singles and twos , a buying pattern reflecting their own selling pattern . |
| 21 | It is a common sight to see bands of penniless zealots whipping and beating themselves as they travel from village to village , begging scraps of food and preaching their own nightmare vision of doom and despondency . |
| 22 | In future , the primary rental will be abolished , and the new costs of maintaining their own transmission systems plus paying for the licence are expected to be considerably less expensive . |
| 23 | Britain 's black comics are hoping to follow that example — by ploughing an independent path — building their own support base and establishing their own venues . |
| 24 | Pupils could convey messages to each other by inventing their own sign language . |
| 25 | It was amazing really and even , she was eighty two when she died and even then she was knitting her own jumper suits . |
| 26 | insurance company ( est. 1782 ) , the first to adopt the practice of maintaining its own fire brigade . |
| 27 | Erm and that was using their own U S A er catapult . |
| 28 | Environmental campaigners using their own Geiger counter say readings taken from the fence are around a hundred and five counts per minute … five times higher than normal for the area . |
| 29 | Two blunt , dramatic cuts styled to perfection by the Zotos creative team using their own product range |
| 30 | The early and best-funded corporations ( such as the London Docklands Development Corporation ) were clearly intended to bypass the local authorities in their areas , using their own planning powers and financial resources to achieve changes which would allow private sector property development to take place . |