Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tousled hair gave him an appealingly boyish appearance , and Robbie found herself aching to smooth it for him , to run her fingers over the dark stubble on his cheeks . |
| 2 | As a community do we seek out the poor and oppressed , endeavouring to help them in their struggle for dignity or do we put them in our litanies of prayer but refuse to act ? |
| 3 | I will tell you about one or two just to get you going but it would be unsporting to warn you about everything . |
| 4 | He ruled with justice and mercy , befriending the Moors rather than seeking to overpower them with his presence . |
| 5 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 6 | I was demanding a big rise in salary , just to prove my worth ; and Andrew was refusing to give it to me , as a matter of principle . |
| 7 | He went to the document case and took out a fistful of money , pretending to weigh it in his hand . |
| 8 | Wanting to keep her for himself , and not wishing to give away her identity to his colleagues , he gives her a male name : ‘ Bob ’ — to the delight of the audience , who then laugh each time he uses the name . |
| 9 | It had had nothing to do with the past and everything to do with him wanting to oust her from her home . |
| 10 | When similar problems arose some time ago your predecessor Inspector Pinder and PC Shaw from Cabus came to a Parish Council meeting to advise us on what steps could be taken and there was some improvement . |
| 11 | I often suspected a touch of sheer paranoia in Colin on race weekends : as though he felt that the gods out there were all conspiring to deprive him of his advancement and rights . |
| 12 | When in 1826 , the Carta Constitucional ( Constitutional Letter ) was published , the Bishop of Funchal ignored the directives of the Ministry of Justice refusing to explain them to his flock . |
| 13 | ‘ It was because you 're refusing to take me with you tomorrow . |
| 14 | SOMEWHERE OUT THERE my Rose is searching to liberate me from my prison of love . |
| 15 | ‘ Love is n't an illusion ! ’ she cried , gripping his hand , wanting to bring it to her lips . |
| 16 | They 're all wooing us now that we 're playing local music , wanting to introduce us to their artists , sampling us with their product . ’ |
| 17 | Let's hope the pessimism of the last edition is firmly left behind — perhaps with Edward Pearce — and that thinkers like Stuart Hall spend less time applauding the Tories and much more time helping to rid us of what he calls this ‘ nightmare ’ . |
| 18 | The females , young and old , crowd around the newcomer , rumbling murmurs among themselves , caressing it with their trunks and helping to free it from its birth membranes . |
| 19 | As one farmer put it , ‘ Time allows me to be interested only in what is going to affect me on my farm — making up the numbers is not the answer ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ In the Antarctic , I 'm going to carry it under my clothes . |
| 21 | But he cancelled his trip to England at the last minute and pretended he thought I was going to see you in your show and might as well hand you the invitation at the same time . ’ |
| 22 | There 's a , I , I nearly booked up tickets to go and see this , but I did n't know if anybody would fancy going to see it with me . |
| 23 | I seized that bloody pole , swinging the barge round even as I felt the water beneath me slop and gurgle as if maliciously laughing at me , waiting to embrace us in its frozen grasp . |
| 24 | She 'd gathered the fragrant blooms from a tub outside on the narrow balcony and deeply inhaled its sweet perfume before deciding to wear it in her hair . |
| 25 | Though she had swum the river on her own , she obviously was not going to risk it with her family . |
| 26 | He 's going to kill me with me tea again , I was ready for a mess |
| 27 | Gabriel had cut inside the turn and was racing to meet them on their other flank . |
| 28 | Was he going to strangle me with his tie ? |
| 29 | How are you going to communicate it to them ? ’ |
| 30 | The attacker went up to the woman as she rode around an area of the south London Common known as the arena , blocking her path when she tried to leave and twice attempting to pull her from her horse . |