Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monism , with its rejection of the form-meaning dichotomy , was a tenet of the New Critics , who rejected the idea that a poem conveys a message , preferring to see it as an autonomous verbal artefact . |
| 2 | Freud ignored the more likely ‘ social ’ hypothesis for feminine dissatisfaction , preferring to ascribe it to a biologically based female nature . |
| 3 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 4 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 5 | Maggie clung to the privacy of her room , as small children do to their teddy bears ; she never invited her friends there , preferring to contain them in the large sitting-room below . |
| 6 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 7 | Like small birds , small mammals may occasionally indulge in mobbing to rid themselves of a feared killer . |
| 8 | ‘ I am presently endeavouring to protect you from a race that considers all human life to be a dangerous , parasitic infection . |
| 9 | All the eligible mature men were married already , and it would not be fitting to contract her in a match where she was not the senior wife . |
| 10 | ‘ I am writing to thank you for a lovely holiday near Brno in Czechoslovakia at the Hotel Form . |
| 11 | I am writing to thank you for the Morrissey article . |
| 12 | ‘ Dear Fatal , ’ writes Philip Saunders from North Devon , ‘ I 'm writing to thank you for the excellent screen wipes . |
| 13 | I am writing to thank you for the coverage you gave my launch as the No More Pylons candidate ( Echo March 26 ) . |
| 14 | The Scottish selectors , however , rated his prime potential value to Scotland as a prop and the genial giant is in the process of seeking to establish himself in the tighthead position . |
| 15 | By making an alliance with Megara , Athens was clearly seeking to secure herself from a lightning invasion from the west — the threat which had been made at the time of Thasos . |
| 16 | Further to our telephone conversation last week , I am writing to inform you of the changes of circumstances concerning the above policy , which I had completely forgotten to do , and for which I apologize . |
| 17 | I am writing to inform you of the new Government legislation concerning liability cover for medical staff working in the National Health Service . |
| 18 | Since my dramatic arrival on the fishkeeping scene , I have been constantly troubled by reporters hiding in my filter , dustbins , and under the coal in my bath , all seeking to catch me with a fishkeeping grouper . |
| 19 | She had not looked deliberately , not wanting to tempt herself with the sight of him . |
| 20 | They should not be clothed in sexual disguises with near-naked women pretending to sell everything but the product itself . |
| 21 | When we denounce the anti-Semitism and let the Fascism take care of itself , we are fastening on what is prepolitical or sub-political , and refusing to engage ourselves on the plane of politics where , as Olson insists , we 're required to vindicate our own sorts of polity against the Fascist sorts . |
| 22 | Despite killing more than 1m of their countrymen between 1975 and 1979 , and despite refusing to submit themselves to the vote , they still have a chance of being invited into the government after the election . |
| 23 | And for all he knew , pro-Syrian elements , the Lebanese Forces and other narco-terrorist groups were also still looking to revenge themselves for the damage that he and the Asmar cell had done to their drugs , arms and hostage-taking operations in Beirut . |
| 24 | The picture is obscured by the different public and private agencies seeking to divest themselves of the burden by distributing costs between one another . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll see you at the weekend , then , ’ Leith said lightly , and was once more wanting to do something of a pugilistic nature to her employer when , just as though he lived there , he went to the door with Travis and saw him out . |
| 26 | To extend a statute to a regrettably omitted case looks like legislation , whereas refusing to extend it to a casus male inclusus is more like imposing a provisional fetter on legislation ( provisional , because Parliament can always come back and include the case expressly if it wants to ) . |
| 27 | Our early encounters with power may have deterred us from ever wanting to use it in a similar way ; having suffered from a cold , distant father or a smothering mother , and inevitably having attributed power to these parents , we may well decide that power is a negative force and not for us . |
| 28 | They decided to employ a similar philosophy to German Bands like Can and Faust , refusing to use them as a mere influence , more an entire concept . |
| 29 | WITH COVENT Garden on the rise , West Soho , London 's Eighties mecca of zonal shopping , is looking to keep itself on the agenda . |
| 30 | Can I , can I just say chairman , finally for point of clarification in case there 's any doubt about it I 'm not looking to turn it into the , into an absolutely like efficient business you know and everything succumbs to that . |