Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any chance of anyone passing me the odd anabolic steroid , this week ? |
| 2 | Resources will be identified by assigning them a unique user-defined code . |
| 3 | ‘ Here 's wishin' you a Happy New Year , Myles , ’ he said and raised the glass to his lips . |
| 4 | They 've been back on the phone again despite Portsmouth awarding him a new two-year contract ! |
| 5 | Ceri ( 4.2 ) : My mum is buying me a new bathing suit . |
| 6 | Here 's wishing you a great New Year of walking ! |
| 7 | Judge Kenneth Richardson ordered charges to be dropped against the 27-year-old and said : ‘ Beyond wishing you a happy married life , I do not wish to say any more . ’ |
| 8 | The thought brought her up short , and she pulled away from his kiss , sending him a quick horrified glance as she wondered once again if he had been able to read her mind . |
| 9 | I held them off with steelies and stones , and they fired back with air-guns , and for a while it was quite exciting , but then Mrs Clamp came with the weekly messages and threatened to call the police , and after calling her a few nasty names they left . |
| 10 | Jean then set about teaching her the finest French ‘ Par quoi ele mout chier le tint ’ ( ‘ for which she held him very dear ’ ) . |
| 11 | Calling it a significant strategic alliance and the new cornerstone of its Unix division , Gates/FA , the US national distributor , will be distributing the developer 's Interactive System Unix to its resellers under license from SunSoft Inc . |
| 12 | Autocar simply puts is another way , calling it the best small car in the world . |
| 13 | Unix System Labs Inc last week said it has started delivering early access versions of Distributed Computing Environment DCE/SVR4 secure code to its OEMs , calling it the first tangible results of its new-found rapprochement with the Open Software Foundation . |
| 14 | A friend of Rosemary 's has been teaching us a few basic ballroom dances — the deal is that we both go to his aerobics classes ! |
| 15 | A recent revival of enthusiasm for Gaelic among both lots of people is giving them a rare common interest . |
| 16 | Almost all their time in bed was spent in either Stage 4 sleep or REM sleep , giving them a near-normal total amount of these two sleep stages , and very low levels of light sleep . |
| 17 | Ward sisters would get an additional £4.31 a week , giving them a new annual salary of £15,184 . |
| 18 | giving them a full Windows-style graphical user interface ( GUI ) , complete with drag ‘ n ’ drop , pull-down menus and WYSIWYG screens . |
| 19 | We will concentrate on styling and giving them a different driving feel . |
| 20 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 21 | Now she began to wonder about that ; it could n't simply be because she 'd disliked him , since she 'd disliked clients before , but that had n't prevented her from giving them the same professional treatment she gave to everyone . |
| 22 | Slowly he began to draw his hands towards each other , giving them an odd little twitch of the wrists as they met just above his head . |
| 23 | But that would upset the exciting shape United have now found , with Cantona giving them an extra attacking dimension . |
| 24 | At 60,000 feet it was harder to tell which was giving me the better high : the puppy poo , the Beastie Boys album or the Cessna . |
| 25 | Something at the back of his mind was pushing its way to the front and giving him a curious grey feeling . |
| 26 | Giving him a foolish little wave , she decided she 'd better return the chisel before she forgot all about it . |
| 27 | These plans will be costed , giving him the best possible chance to make an effective case . |
| 28 | I also suggested that they off Ollie his own warm secure bed downstairs , or at least out of the bedroom , to avoid giving him the ultimate rank-defining liberty of sleeping with the real top dogs . |
| 29 | Harvey said , ‘ Yes , ’ very briefly , and handed it over before giving him the little 6.35-mm . |
| 30 | The afternoon sun highlighted her blonde hair which hung around her shoulders in reckless abandon , giving her a wild untamed loveliness which took his breath away . |