Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 2 | He walked back over the warm , moonlit meadows and paused before the inn , but held on to this resolution , the righteousness firing through him like brandy . |
| 3 | They glared at one another , attraction and antagonism crackling between them like electricity . |
| 4 | Her heart beat with abrupt violence , sexual attraction crackling between them like electricity . |
| 5 | Here at Whaddon I have allowed his talent to blossom and I would not be surprised to see the League big boys sniffing after him before Christmas , and Darren to be a regular in Barnet reserves by the end of the season . |
| 6 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 7 | When the dashing Cigognes arrived they pounced with glee on the dispersed German planes flying up and down in the ‘ barrage ’ , tearing through it with impunity to shoot up the Drachen balloons , the vital eyes of the German artillery . |
| 8 | Her left arm hung uselessly at her side , agony tearing through it from shoulder to wrist as the circulation returned . |
| 9 | 78 , Mr. Hooper , appearing before us on behalf of the Attorney-General , felt constrained to concede that the answer to the Attorney-General 's first question is a qualified ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 10 | 78 , Mr. Hooper , appearing before us on behalf of the Attorney-General , felt constrained to concede that the answer to the Attorney-General 's first question is a qualified ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 11 | They do n't really talk about what 's happened in the past , all they 're bothered about is what 's happening to them at present . |
| 12 | ‘ It is very hard for me to comprehend what is happening to me at home in Australia let alone here in Britain and around the world . |
| 13 | He could have taken the isolation better if it was n't for the batteries in his radio dying on him without warning ; usually they faded over a couple of nights but this time it was just zonk , no signal . |
| 14 | In some heating systems the water circulates naturally , ; hot water rising from the boiler and returning to it by force of gravity when it is cooler . |
| 15 | However , the issue of the relationship between classical deterrence and interactionist ‘ labelling ’ clearly needs further attention , and I will be returning to it in Chapter 8 . |
| 16 | A small herd inhabited a reedbed formed by the overflow from a large pool fed by hot springs , leaving its shelter only after dark and returning to it before light . |
| 17 | Look for small animals attached to the leaf or crowding around it for food . |
| 18 | I saw guys around my age [ in their forties ] dying around me from abuse , and I knew I had to quit to survive . |
| 19 | Poor Bill ! all day looking for him at home . |
| 20 | If they come looking for us with tusk and fang you 'd better be ready with that Winchester peashooter of yours . " |
| 21 | She was awake now , and looking about her in bewilderment . |
| 22 | Hope once again went through the elaborate mechanism of lighting the pipe , looking about him for wind , but the day was utterly calm . |
| 23 | When he and Poins scatter Falstaff and his robber band they speak verse to each other at the end of the scene ( II.ii.104ff. ) , and as soon as Falstaff has gone into hiding Hal addresses the Sheriff searching for him in verse ( II.iv.506 ) . |
| 24 | The family say if her husband was still alive , he would be looking after her at home . |
| 25 | It 's as if I 'm repaying him for looking after me at school . |
| 26 | Next day we went to a very homely lunch party with a friend who has her very vivacious , elegant and almost magisterial 87-year-old mother living with her in winter ( she spends the summer in cooler Torino in the north ) , Antonietta Dohrn , whose grandfather , the close friend of Charles Darwin , who funded and founded the Zoological Station . |
| 27 | Jennie told Katharine to keep pushing with her inside leg and holding him with the outside rein to stop him walking forward . |
| 28 | And yet I 'm wrong , there 's more chance of that happening than your mother ever looking upon me with favour . |
| 29 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |
| 30 | However , as we saw , this type of personality hangs on to others , looking to them for affirmation and praise . |