Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 2 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're using me as some sort of buffer between yourself and your feelings for Claire . |
| 4 | You flatter me by insisting on seeing me as some sort of Casanova figure . |
| 5 | England has an excellent crop of young players , but my role as Captain and Selector precludes me from naming them in these pages . |
| 6 | Now you know the rules , set a good example to other drivers by using them at all times ; who knows , they may even copy your driving style and do it right too ! |
| 7 | ‘ As long as nothing offensive is being said during Eircell mobile phone conversations , we have no power to stop anybody using them for any purpose , however peculiar . ’ |
| 8 | The advantage of using them in this situation is their low cost and the speed with which the wall can be built up . |
| 9 | Before including them in any press pack the question " Will this be of any use to the recipient ? " must be answered in the affirmative . |
| 10 | Two of these are worthy of a wider audience and thus I make no apology for including them in this month 's Surgery ! |
| 11 | Helping them with these problems will probably help them to stop sniffing . |
| 12 | Anybody who is interested in helping them in either capacity should phone Mrs. Noakes on Petersfield 263749 . |
| 13 | My muscles are reminding me of this morning 's ride and the unaccustomed exercise … ’ |
| 14 | There was also no lack of contacts , who , starved of literature , were exhilarated to be able to talk about Eliot : a Captain Richardson , whom I met in Eritrea , engaged to a charming Italian , proved one of those contacts whom the war brought together and separated , reminding me in some ways of the young Eliot and Jean Verdenal . |
| 15 | Even if someone believes the most secure and pernicious lies , he will not be able to help himself from doubting them at some time . |
| 16 | African hunting dogs ( opposite , bottom ) attack their prey in a pack , pursuing them for several miles if necessary . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 18 | The project would welcome researchers in post-war British history contacting them concerning any papers they themselves may have discovered . |
| 19 | Other people may be frightened by your blunt arrogance , but do n't make the mistake of including me in that category … |
| 20 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 21 | Then , with great bravado , she attacked the pile of pine-needles , scooping them up between the giant clutch of her karaso and her own small hand , depositing them in another heap that she was building on top of the rope . |
| 22 | ‘ And you 're going to be in a lot of trouble when I tell the police you 're keeping me in this car by force . ’ |
| 23 | Wooing first John and then Richard , Philip succeeded in keeping them at each other 's throats , or at Henry 's coat-tails , for several more years . |
| 24 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 25 | Immediately my father started matching me with all kinds of licensed murderous thugs , and one in particular who had become the amateur flyweight champion of Scotland . |
| 26 | If your next-door neighbours insist on blasting you at all hours with Wagner 's Gottedammerung " , be thankful : it might have been Heavy Metal . |
| 27 | I 'm not thanking you for that Phil . |
| 28 | Erm , yeah Mrs she sort of has the power over level erm if she she sort of , it 's like she 's sort of keeping her on this level in the same household as her |
| 29 | ‘ The Secretary of State , in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 21(1) , ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) of the Oil and Gas ( Enterprise ) Act 1982 , and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf , hereby makes the following Order : ’ |
| 30 | And I did n't begin distrusting him until this trip . ’ |