Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of whining about my memory I should be thanking my lucky stars I 'm alive at all . ’ |
| 2 | For this we must rely to a great extent upon Soviet goodwill and if we make difficulty over returning their own nationals it will react adversely upon their willingness to help in restoring to us as soon as possible our own prisoners . " |
| 3 | Disguising his real feelings he wrote cheerfully , telling them that it was better here than The Hague , as if to say that nothing could be worse than the hell of being unloved . |
| 4 | Now , seeing Mary 's shapelessness goblin-like straddling her thick hips he wanted her and his child out of there , as though they were vulnerable to these most bizarre manifestations of the random and the destructive . |
| 5 | ‘ Going Our Separate Ways We 've Never Been So Close ’ said the caption boldly . |
| 6 | Recording their own conversa the trouble is though , if you 're recording your own conversations you 're a bit stilted |
| 7 | Charles Garrett today , enjoys a life that would be the envy of most treasure hunters the world over : using his own products he prospects worldwide for treasure . |
| 8 | DESPERADO : when a piece is trapped or doomed to capture or is blocking its own pieces it is deemed ‘ desperado ’ and runs amok , kamikaze style . |
| 9 | By making your own recordings you can pick topics and people that are relevant to your own students . |
| 10 | In the course of fulfilling our social contracts we make moral judgements of work . |
| 11 | Yeah , well , thank you Chairman , I I I 'm erm er , I must admit , I 'm I I am think long and and and er think deep really , about er , you know , changes such as this , but I I also er , er have to run my own businesses , and er , I just er , I think we have experienced a water-shed , it 's coincided to some extent with the change of administration and then during the nineteen eighties , we had to a boom in this county , we had the the opportunity and I never er ever er , been against that principle , of er , of er , using our actual receipts we have hidden reserves , we we talked about the reserves of twenty nine million pounds here , for the er , erm , we have er er , assets of twenty nine million , in an earlier paper . |
| 12 | While indulging his melancholy thoughts he had taken care to position himself in a nobly pensive attitude , with the candle at his side lending a glistening aureole to his dark profile . |
| 13 | This is something that 's been on my mind for a very long time and I mean , I , I , I think it 's about time we started getting rid of these things and updating our own toilets you know . |