Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even allowing for delicious exaggeration it still added up to a horrifying picture and she began to wish she had n't even tried to get into the company . |
| 2 | I 'm not suggesting for one moment it 's easy , but I mean is it possible that , you know erm accepting that this is a major conflict , it does involve all of us whether we like it or not |
| 3 | ‘ When you started prattling about that man I sometimes saw here before I ever went up to Oxford , ’ she said . |
| 4 | She were knocking for this thing you know . |
| 5 | Even if they are not inhibited from applying for special treatment they may suffer some loss of self-respect in receiving the service free . |
| 6 | Some time later while walking past this area we looked at the plastic and saw strange movements coming from it . |
| 7 | He , too , took up the theme that it was unfair to encourage a person , who could be dying with each drink he took , to take more . |
| 8 | Her husband Alex , 45 , said : ‘ Hopefully , when he is dealt with at a magistrates court later for driving with excess alcohol he will be banned for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Hopefully , when he is dealt with at a magistrates court later for driving with excess alcohol he will be banned for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | I keep walking in this rubbish you 've swept in the |
| 11 | In order to understand what is happening in that country we have to see its internal developments as the effects of what is happening to the international economy as a whole . |
| 12 | For those who are n't totally sort of in control of the plot and I probably should include myself as one of them , what 's happening in this scene I want you to act out . |
| 13 | What on earth was happening to that girl she had left behind in London ? |
| 14 | When climbing on rough rock I reverse the jacket to protect the Pertex layer from tearing ; although I 've been surprised just how robust the garment is , given a total weight of just 600g . |
| 15 | The pain of the individual 's sense of loss is so great that he withdraws from relating to any object he perceives as having authority as a way of masking the pain . |
| 16 | Returning to interior decorating he imported French wallpapers and fabrics designed by Poiret and Dufy . |
| 17 | In the case of the YCCC , the video workshop so inspired two of the members ( a husband and wife ) , that on returning to Yellow Creek they went out and bought a video which they have since used with great effect in their campaign . |
| 18 | Returning to this appeal it must , of course , be allowed . |
| 19 | If you experience difficulty in keeping to this timetable you should communicate promptly with Suzanne Pinnington ( on extension number 227 ) at Napier House . |
| 20 | To understand why Jews should be bothered by Catholics praying at this site it is necessary to go back to the role played by the Catholic Church in fomenting antisemitism , the passivity of the Pope during the war while the exterminations were underway and even the suspicions caused by the reception of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim , with his dubious war record , by the present Pope , John Paul II ( from Poland ) . |
| 21 | Well , I would suppose that the person they 're looking for is similar in character , but if they 're going to er if they 're looking for that person I think they 've just got to act normally , and it 's not a one-off thing , I think it 's built up over the years . |
| 22 | Corbett stayed in the castle the rest of the day , wandering about , looking for any place he could sit and quietly meditate on all he knew . |
| 23 | Even as Rachel flitted before us down passageways and galleries , I could feel other presences , as if ghosts hiding in the shadows watched her pass then trailed behind us , looking for some weakness they could exploit . |
| 24 | Every week , for one reason or another , there was a man about the place , looking for some creature I 'd seen , or thought I 'd seen . |
| 25 | Attach the blind to the batten and thread each cord through its corresponding screw-eye , then out to the operational side , passing through each screw-eye it passes . |
| 26 | Well she would rather have her own than be dressed up like looking like rolled doll she said . |
| 27 | Do n't know , last time I asked Diane she said oh he 's , he 's living with this machine he 's got in |
| 28 | They could go on living in this flat they both loved . |
| 29 | Here after living in strict confinement he found himself dining and playing bowls with amiable divines . |
| 30 | looking in one direction you might imagine yourself in Greenland ; another , and you gazed down upon a nest of' mill chimneys . |