Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 2 | While she was helping me into yet another nightshirt , we talked . |
| 3 | In fact in its original Hebrew setting the shepherd referred to a totally different picture — one who actually cared for and was perhaps even prepared to give his life for the sheep , protecting them from very real danger from which they could not be expected to protect themselves . |
| 4 | Go for angular-shaped chairs , softening them with brightly coloured cushions . |
| 5 | No he 's keeping them for just fun cars for himself , he 's just got the money to burn over there |
| 6 | Palaeontologists almost universally denied both these implications of the molecular research and continued denying them for almost 15 years . |
| 7 | I think I 'm keeping it to under twenty . |
| 8 | These included the abolition of absolute covenants by translating them into fully qualified covenants ; the elimination of qualified covenants such that they would take effect as a fully qualified covenant ; and the placing of the burden of proof for proving " reasonableness " where consent has been withheld , together with a restriction upon landlords seeking to delay their decisions regarding consent . |
| 9 | Perfectly normal men I know have taken to reprimanding my personal politics — harrying me about how liberated I am . |
| 10 | Thank you very much , Maggie thought bleakly , eyeing him with even greater suspicion . |
| 11 | He was hardly aware of moving , but when he pushed the postern closed behind him she stepped back into the gateway , eyeing him with very human caution . |
| 12 | Beneath it all lay Khrushchev 's hostility to the ‘ cult of personality ’ , declared at the twentieth Congress and afterwards at the very time that Mao 's personality cult was endowing him with almost divine status . |
| 13 | I remember meeting him at about 6 o'clock one morning in an airport in the United States . |
| 14 | One must hope that Maxwell will be well enough to assume the role next week , but meanwhile the company is to be congratulated on replacing him with so sterling a performance by this seasoned professional . |
| 15 | For the past 100 years , art historians , including Sir John Pope-Hennessy , have accepted the sculptured figure as being the work of Tullio Lombardo , dating it from about 1525 . |
| 16 | His eyes searching hers from very close quarters , he chuckled when she hastily lowered her lashes . |
| 17 | They were contributed by Jessica Mann , writing in the Sunday Telegraph about Monica Dickens ' One of the Family ( Viking ) : ‘ Monica Dickens had a knack of entering into the feelings of her characters and describing them with apparently artless sincerity , but she was never a cosy writer , being both too realistic and too experienced , having done time herself as a servant , factory girl and a Samaritan … |
| 18 | Describing them in more specific terms is a social historian 's nightmare . |
| 19 | Alcoves and corners can all be put to good use by turning them into highly attractive display features . |
| 20 | On a personal level , Stevenson has an interest in buying National Hunt foals and yearlings and selling them on as three or four-year-olds ; some are kept for racing . |
| 21 | However the recent revival of interest in the practice , which can be traced back to 1977 , represents a new departure , rendering it of far greater potential significance than it has previously assumed . |
| 22 | Almost all outstandingly creative people are high in assessed IQ , a fact which must surely protect them to some extent from mental breakdown , both directly and indirectly , in the first case , by providing them with more flexible psychological resources to cope with stress and , in the second , by enabling them to make socially valued contributions that strengthen self-esteem . |
| 23 | It now appears that the Government is moving them to only one area , on the Uraricaa River , probably to avoid further confrontation with the courts . |
| 24 | It also aimed to develop strategies which would help children reconsider and reshape their ideas in the light of new evidence , moving them towards more scientific explanations . |
| 25 | If we have a principled way of discerning the stable sub-assemblies , thereby distinguishing them from merely arbitrary collections of parts , then we can as it were see the evolutionary pedigree of a complex structure . |
| 26 | Iran on April 6 denounced , in a letter to the Security Council , Iraq 's toleration of the operation of " terrorist mercenaries " , and demanded that Iraq should stop supporting them from inside Iraqi territory . |
| 27 | The house , Wychwood , from which I like to think that Eliot derived the name in The Family Reunion , was easily within walking distance ; but we felt some responsibility for getting the great man from London without subjecting him to too much fatigue ; and if my brother reached home by a circuitous route , it was partly in order to show off the beauty of the place . |
| 28 | She was careful not to disturb the make-up she had applied secretly before retiring , and checked it quickly in a polished bronze mirror that lay next to the bowl , the deep yellow glow from the oil lamp she had left burning providing her with just enough light to see that none had smudged . |
| 29 | Subsequent research will then be devoted to determining its range of applicability and subjecting it to still further tests . |
| 30 | The three legs of the World Cup can take enough out of a horse without subjecting it to too much unnecessary effort beforehand . |