Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was welding on top of a 900 ton oil storage tank which exploded , hurling him 120 feet into a wall . |
| 2 | The same effect can be obtained by filling the pool with water and emptying it several times over a period of two or three weeks . |
| 3 | Dear Doctor After five years of reading your informative column , saving me immeasurable instances of possible musi-technical tension , a situation has newly presented itself to me that I can not recollect as being covered before . |
| 4 | IT 'S an action-packed day on the Mersey Soccer beat tomorrow and the Football Echo will be bringing you first reports of how our teams fared . |
| 5 | That game kicking off at seven thirty , so about two and half minutes before that game gets under way and er we 'll be bringing you regular reports on that one , plus tonight 's other Coca Cola Cup third round replay , Peterborough against Blackpool , that one kicking off at seven forty five , and that 's the time of kick-off in our local match at Lane , Notts County against Pisa in group A of the Anglo-Italian Cup . |
| 6 | The emphasis put on the respect shown by the first Ottoman rulers for the dervishes by granting them generous plots of land can also be interpreted as a denunciation of Bayezid 's policy of abolishing the rights on the and lands . |
| 7 | pulling them blue jerseys over their heads |
| 8 | He had been a very successful amateur boxer , and sometimes would try to relieve our tension by sparring with me , teaching me basic moves of a sport I knew nothing about and instinctively detested . |
| 9 | It was , however , a month or two before they gave up sending me colourful brochures with inducements to have a rose bush planted in his name or an attractively calligraphed entry in their ‘ Book of Remembrance ’ , to be opened every year on the date of his death to commemorate his passing etc , etc , none of which was cheap and I 'm sure that neither I nor anyone else who knew him will need that kind of reminder . |
| 10 | There is a serial killer abroad who delights in stabbing Belushi 's one-night conquests , smearing them in Yves Saint Laurent Rich Ruby lipstick and then sending him cryptic notes on a wonky word processor . |
| 11 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 12 | They tend to throw the ball rather than kicking it 60 yards up the park . ’ |
| 13 | I think we just we should stick to er giving them five chances for their . |
| 14 | Apart from the counties a number of urban areas had grown up and many of these had been granted Charters of Incorporation giving them varying powers of local administration . |
| 15 | The idea that one can adopt an orphan baby elephant in Kenya and supply it with food and medicine for under £15 would be even more droll if I did not remember adopting a number of black babies in Africa as a schoolboy , and giving them foolish names like Chrysostom or Donaldina or Ambrose , at five shillings ( 25p ) a time . |
| 16 | The package , called Hippix and developed at the university 's Center for Software Science , includes Unix commands and libraries that Hippo maintains will let Unix users cost-effectively integrate PCs into their Unix networks by giving them identical tools for both platforms . |
| 17 | but Julia said to me before she came round with Hayden she said er , cos her mum and dad are still there , not her mum and dad , her mum and step dad are still there , they 're only giving them forty pounds for nine weeks , forty pounds towards the mortgage like you know , been there since after Christmas and erm , anyway she said ooh she said , Steve said er , that 's her husband , said to me ooh is n't Emily well mannered she said , she does n't walk in the house , she waits in the doorstep you know |
| 18 | I wished I could have screens put round my bed like the really sick people had , so that instead of giving me sidelong glances of pity because I had no visitors , people would drop their voices and whisper sepulchrally to interested outsiders , " Poor little thing — she 's dying , you know . " |
| 19 | He was giving me 40 minutes on all matters transport and 10 had just been forfeited to the interests of the constituents of Derbyshire . |
| 20 | Thank you for giving me brief details of the grounds maintenance agreed for Scorton Playing Field when I spoke to you on the phone recently . |
| 21 | They were pleasant and quiet , asking me banal questions about my life in England . |
| 22 | A well-trained hairdresser can remove most of the medication from your hair , leaving it ready for a perm , giving you excellent results without damage . |
| 23 | the introduction ( this section ) , giving you basic notes on how to use the book , and full background information on the history of Constant Drachenfels and his Castle . |
| 24 | we 're giving you three tips for the shortlist … |
| 25 | If you 're fed up with giving him heart-shaped chocolates on St. Valentine 's Day , why not treat him to one of these delicious haircuts ! |
| 26 | Three days after his momentous innings , Stoddart hit 270 against Blackheath , and then , playing for Middlesex , score 98 against Gloucestershire , giving him 790 runs in five days . |
| 27 | Nature had touched his face with beauty , giving him finely-sculptured bones beneath a lightly tanned skin , eyes like aquamarines , and hair more silver than gold which curled slightly beneath his tall beaver hat . |
| 28 | Phil John , John Morrison , Craig Chalmers and Williams completed the Baa-Baas ' runaway , with Chalmers 's six conversions from seven giving him 16 points from a productive night . |
| 29 | Two days later , Herzog invited Peres to try and form a new government , giving him three weeks in which to do so . |
| 30 | After three winners yesterday , he is only seven short of his century , while Jonothan Lower maintained his strike rate on the Pipe horses with a Taunton double on The Leggett and Ambassador , giving him 21 winners from just 34 rides . |