Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | monitor current prescriptions to make sure that children are not using them for their first experiments with drugs . |
| 2 | If you used floats on your model during the initial learning period and have since removed them , it would be well worth replacing them for your first circuits . |
| 3 | Because she disliked it so , he found a fleeting pleasure in calling her by her first name . |
| 4 | The comrades we have been teaching are very pleasant , but a bit more reticent than elsewhere — the people at Peking and Sian got round to calling us by our first names , but here it 's ‘ miss ’ and ‘ Professor ’ ( or , to give my name in Chinese ) . |
| 5 | The scrutineers will proceed to add the number of first preference votes received by each candidate , eliminate the candidate with the lowest number of first preference votes and redistribute the votes of those giving him as their first preference amongst the two remaining candidates in accordance with their second preference . |
| 6 | If inviting an elderly parent to come to live with you in your own home seems to be the best way of helping her in her last years , the first overtures you make to her on this subject need to be very tactful , bearing all the hallmarks of a really welcoming invitation . |
| 7 | The star was shapeless and the candle spattered with glue reminding her of her first efforts . |
| 8 | The Scots went into the game requiring just a draw to take the title , but there was no stopping them in their fifth successive victory , by 5-2 . |
| 9 | Not without hearing it from you first . ’ |
| 10 | In Huarina the tarmac was abandoned for the dirt road that would take us through Achacachi , honouring us with our last good look at the Ancohuma massif before we rolled endlessly down to Sorata and the warm , wetting mists of Yungas . |
| 11 | Restaurant chain TGI Friday 's is using it for its first UK ad campaign , launched this month . |
| 12 | Erm so i if you like it 's , it 's officially done because therefore they 're advertising it in our last newsletter we send to every parent |
| 13 | It 's really horrible , he was telling me about it last night , and I was really scared |
| 14 | JOHN Mortimer has been telling me about his first ever speaking role in Rumpole of the Bailey , his popular television series . |
| 15 | What his countrymen did not deserve was being prevented from ousting him after his second term of office . |