Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each such pupil also receives a personalised letter reminding them of their entitlement to education and training , and guaranteeing them both an interview with an officer of the Careers Service and an offer of a place on a training scheme , in a job or in continued education . |
| 2 | Efforts were made to send Jewish teachers with Jewish evacuees ( British and refugee ) , and a letter went out to all RCM children who had been uprooted reminding them of their faith and upbringing . |
| 3 | He pays tribute to his treatment at Gartree prison , he apologises to the bomb victims ' families that they have had to keep reminding them of their loss : ‘ But we had to fight for our freedom . ’ |
| 4 | This sense of wariness and unease permeates our society , and will remain a barrier both to parents accepting mentally handicapped children , and to the public at large accepting them within our society . |
| 5 | We will be working alongside the base staff , encouraging them and assisting them in their work with local churches , ministering to the homeless in Hyderabad and working among a gypsy group in the country . |
| 6 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 7 | Sarah had become aware of her looks , which were improving daily , and she began using them to her advantage . |
| 8 | Years of listening to students and helping them through their undergraduate years have taught us how varied those needs can be . |
| 9 | The abundance of physical work prevented Madrichim from spending enough time with the children , let alone helping them with their education . |
| 10 | Order Code : 9350 Total Disks : 1 This program is ideal for introducing children to computers and helping them with their spelling . |
| 11 | ‘ No , ’ agreed Cheryl , ‘ and that 's the best of all , because Angela 's helping me with my semaphore , which is one of the Challenges I 'm doing on the Brownie Highway . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He 's helping me with my homework , ’ said Camille . |
| 13 | She has very kindly been helping me with my research . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I really owe a lot of thanks to the gypsies for helping me in my start . ’ |
| 15 | She was always cutting pictures out of magazines and sticking them on her wall . |
| 16 | Conversations such as this can help children see the point : Penny : " I love giraffes — I love stroking them on my lap — I 'd love to have one for a pet . " |
| 17 | ‘ Probates , ’ she said , producing them from her bag . |
| 18 | The French Officer gets us all out of the ditch and the march continues for about four or five hours , then , during a rest in the wood , I fall asleep , my face among the leaves reminding me of my home in Scotland . |
| 19 | ‘ But , for your information , Doreen is no longer reminding me of my mother . |
| 20 | Plus , my friends would only end up nagging me about my weight and that was the last thing that I wanted . ’ |
| 21 | Nilsen picked up young men in London before bringing them to his home . |
| 22 | Words and names , as we all know from everyday experience , possess magical power : naming and identifying experiences and things imposes some degree of control over them and gives at least the illusion of bringing them within our power . |
| 23 | are you doing drowning me in my bed ! |
| 24 | The Ostrogothic king Theodoric cultivated contacts with them , drawing them into his web of marriage alliances , and trying to use them as a check on Clovis in 507 . |
| 25 | Adam held me steady against the wall , protecting me with his body , very pleasantly . |
| 26 | I see now that it was just his way of keeping me on my mettle and making sure I did n't get big-headed . |
| 27 | and when she went over she says er school being off , she heard er David saying something about well nobody 's keeping me from my ironing . |
| 28 | Beginning in the 1860s , Degas made small wax statuettes of horses and female figures , keeping them in his studio and occasionally using them as models for his two-dimensional work . |
| 29 | Later redefinition of the goal as ‘ providing transportation ’ removed the blinkers that had prevented them from realizing that cars were made largely in Detroit but had to be received in good condition in every State , and that driving them to their destination was expensive . |
| 30 | he was boom , whacking them with his cape , sort of chasing them out of town , you know , and I must say , they never came back . |