Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their elbows stand the ghosts of the fallen in the first world war , reminding them of that earlier occasion when so many ministers preached uncritical political guidance from their pulpits . |
| 2 | ‘ Be there — or you 'll really get fucked , ’ he hissed , jabbing a manicured index finger at my face and transfixing me with lifeless black eyes . |
| 3 | I remember seeing them on Ready Steady go and liking Ronnie Lane 's smile . |
| 4 | ‘ Why do you insist on seeing me in this horrible way ? ’ she finished up . |
| 5 | The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug . |
| 6 | He made his way through the twisting streets of the harbour district , crossing the little squares where the market traders were spreading linen sheets on the ground before decking them with neat conical piles of vegetables and spices whose reds , yellows and greens shone out brightly against the white . |
| 7 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |
| 8 | I bloody well ca n't achieve that by sticking them in dull concrete abortions ! |
| 9 | Sticking your urine in a bottle , lot of blocks , sticking them in different coloured shaped holes and things like that , you know . |
| 10 | And he nibbled at her lips again , before catching them in another long exploratory kiss that brought her to a threshold of physical pleasure she had never before experienced . |
| 11 | By imposing a general tariff on foreign imports , Britain would be able to open negotiations with the White Dominions for a mutual removal of tariff barriers , drawing them into closer economic ties with the homeland as a first step towards final political federation of the Empire as a whole and the establishment of a supreme representative Imperial Parliament in London . |
| 12 | In focusing on concrete outcomes of social activity , and explaining them through natural causal models , geographers have disguised the social origins of these outcomes and the political assumptions and implications of their theories . |
| 13 | well mines the first two weeks and I 'm keeping them off those two days that they 're supposed to be at school |
| 14 | Last month we phoned Lydia and were shocked to hear that the Appeal against the convictions of the prisoners had been postponed , condemning them to another nine months in prison — until May 1991 . |
| 15 | These three contrasting ways of approaching the same data can be conveniently illustrated by applying them to that contemporary social phenomenon : student unrest . |
| 16 | And some of the connections are quite revealing , and the actions of the Italians in getting very very frustrated and angry now , and having the Christian Democrats and the Mafia and the and the establishment ruling them for many many years , I think does them proud and er maybe a little bit of anger here , about the same issues , would go down quite well . |
| 17 | A key concept in understanding such major shifts , and relating them to wider economic change , is uneven development . |
| 18 | We shall examine these in turn , relating them to specific national situations . |
| 19 | The purpose of education , and of RE in particular , is to help these aspects to grow , relating them to basic religious concepts and basic skills for discernment . |
| 20 | Thus is perpetuated the unanswerable myth whereby all mysteries are explained away by the simple process of ascribing them to some remote and inaccessible ‘ god ’ who created everything . |
| 21 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 22 | ‘ If she 's so keen to save a spot of money then she wo n't thank you for cheating her of eight grand . ’ |
| 23 | Computer Reseller News and its vendor sources say Intel , which already bumped Pentium into the first quarter , will be delaying it until late next year because of those heat dissipation and manufacturing problems we told you about ( UX No 410 ) . |
| 24 | Or perchance ending it with that old adage , ‘ Keep up the good work ’ ? |
| 25 | Despite his desire to secure the dominance of holism by equating it with social scientific explanation , Miller 's argument only sustains a weaker claim ; for his distinction between holism and individualism suggests that there is a place for both types of explanation . |
| 26 | On the other hand , if the landlord is likely to relet the demised property at the end of the tenancy without incorporating it into any greater unit it may be prudent to spread the termination dates so as to prevent a cash flow crisis , which might be occasioned by too many voids at the same time . |
| 27 | Equally , the consequences of applying it to any old scrap of paper which any party cared to describe as an ‘ Act of Parliament ’ solely for purpose of denying jurisdiction would be absurd . |
| 28 | The Service Consultancy initiative is a major benefit to clients in this area and I have already received many letters from customers , advised by the circular in their invoicing , thanking us for this additional feature . |
| 29 | I have no hesitation in recommending them for steady moving water and out of the two I feel the series X is more versatile . |
| 30 | An anonymous notice has also been placed beneath the original at the beginning of the right of way urging people to oppose any plans to re-classify the track , and alerting them to possible future proposals . |