Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one instance , a local commercial waste-collection contractor overestimated the tonnage he was disposing of at his own landfill site by 30% . |
| 2 | ‘ What I 'm saying , Vitali — what I 've been driving at in my own bluff way — is that I would very much appreciate , that 's to say , well … ’ |
| 3 | Erm but what we will have to do is set up our local procedures as regards agents queries and things like that in both countries , both with and also whatever you decide in Denmark of how we run the procedure but that can be something later but what we 'll need to do is no doubt before we actually do the distribution to the agents and the erm the information out to them th why we 're going into on our own as opposed to being served by the other carriers . |
| 4 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 5 | Oh no you Well again er as I say I I 'm speaking in in my own time , er and in my time you were left school before you started in the yard at all , aye . |
| 6 | It must also strive to be first with the news , especially that emanating from within its national boundaries . |
| 7 | It must also strive to be first with the news , especially that emanating from within its national boundaries . |
| 8 | In other words , we 've been funding from within our own budget new developments that 'll come on stream next year and it 's a very complicated budget and it contains some quite erm controversial erm subjects , which no doubt we 'll go through in a minute , but overall erm , given the total financial situation , I 'm a relieved man today . |
| 9 | She points to the teddy bear ( that one ) in the first picture and then points to the empty chair in the second picture ( there ) and assumes that the teacher is paying attention to what she is pointing to in their shared context of situation . |
| 10 | A tall , skinny man , with a soft voice that sometimes strikes the court as coming from behind his left ear . |
| 11 | It 's the old dying and the new taking it 's place , that 's what Jesus is talking about with his new birth ! |
| 12 | It is quite often the case that a speaker will treat what he was talking about in his last contribution as the most salient elements and what the other speaker talked about , though more recent , as less salient . |
| 13 | Beside her , Dauntless had become rigid , sounds of torment squeezing from between his clenched jaws . |
| 14 | Come on ! ’ he snapped , thumping the end of his stick on the floor and glowering from beneath his unkempt eyebrows . |
| 15 | Tommy Cooper talking at length about when he ruled at the Den and we 'll be talking to about his Norwegian career and his arrival at the City ground . |