Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun prp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was I going to do between then and meeting Kathleen the following morning ? |
| 2 | Meeting Jenny the following day at least gave me something else to hang on to , but I still had n't the faintest idea how everyone was going to react . |
| 3 | I was full of joy at the prospect of meeting Agnes the next day . |
| 4 | Gaston , the committee man , who had been eyeing Ingrid the entire evening , trying to discern if she was wearing anything at all under the gold waistcoat , hurried over and pulled her to her feet . |
| 5 | They again rejected any possibility of DEC ever going to SVR4 ( ’ no requests for it , ’ they said ) , maintaining that OSF 's future compliance with SVR4 would suffice and calling OSF/1 the long-awaited Unix rewrite . |
| 6 | Niki still thought Ron Dennis was giving Prost the better service . |
| 7 | Vernon regretted giving Harcourt the cold shoulder ; he would have been someone to laugh with . |
| 8 | I was saying Danny the other day do you remember the time he came and got out his in there ? |
| 9 | Video re-runs hinted that Dowie had impeded a defender thus giving Quinn the necessary space but it seemed a harsh decision . |
| 10 | Perhaps for this reason , Haig now extended the front of Second Army northward to include the crucial Menin Road area , thus giving Plumer the principal target : the Gheluvelt plateau due east of Ypres . |
| 11 | So if I 'd still been giving Clive the best part of my days , occasions for dalliance would have been rare and risky . |
| 12 | Malik showed willing to attack from the start , driving Mallender through the covers like a rifle-shot , and treating Munton the same way . |
| 13 | He was giving Singer the bare minimum — nothing about Nick 's death or Marianne 's disappearance , nothing about Sophie or Zeno . |
| 14 | Heart of Darkness mattered not for giving Eliot the anthropological reader a better idea of how primitive society worked , but for showing Eliot the poet that the life of the savage and that of the modern urban clerk intersected on the deepest level , the level of ‘ The Horror ’ which was , essentially for him , the realization of evil within man . |
| 15 | David Markham raised his eyebrows , giving Rachel the distinct impression that what his predecessor had done held no interest for him . |
| 16 | PRESSING ON : Just in case they 've left anything out , Johnny insists on giving Fergie the full weight of his experience in these matters |
| 17 | But economic and political facts are discrediting ‘ Europe ’ , if by that is meant the subsuming of national economies and currencies and handing Brussels the supreme power . |
| 18 | I was reading Mauriac the other day : the Mémoires intérieurs , written at the very end of his life . |
| 19 | Over boiling Watts the downtown skyline carries a smear of God 's green snot . |
| 20 | The partnership between Campbell and former Crystal Palace striker Ian Wright has produced seven goals in five games , making Arsenal the First Division 's top scorers . |
| 21 | He was marrying Hazel the following weekend . |
| 22 | Myanma acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) , Radio Burma reported on Dec. 3 ; it said that the instrument of accession was deposited with the US State Department on Dec. 2 , making Myanma the 154th state to sign the treaty . |
| 23 | The recent controversies over both the Maastricht amendment and Workfare serve to betray the Conservatives ' real economic aim of making Britain the low wage centre of Europe . |
| 24 | Now I think that the way the law is used in this country against the gay community is really making Britain the laughing stock of Europe . |
| 25 | It has created a joint venture from Wellcome 's vaccine business in Spain and Spanish manufacturer Llorente , making Llorente-Evans the leading supplier of vaccines in that country . |
| 26 | Making Tucker the 23rd opponent out of 23 to lose to Lewis as a professional is the champion 's main objective . |
| 27 | These talents grow out of over $414 billion in assets , making DKB the strongest funding base in Japan . |
| 28 | When using ABC the first thing to do is : |
| 29 | And of course , being Daisy , she was quite unable to resist telling Perdita the thrilling news which she must n't tell anyone , that she 'd got the scholarship . |
| 30 | For a moment Merrill debated telling Richard the real reason . |