Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each such pupil also receives a personalised letter reminding them of their entitlement to education and training , and guaranteeing them both an interview with an officer of the Careers Service and an offer of a place on a training scheme , in a job or in continued education . |
| 2 | Gradually , because of all the trouble he was getting into , and with Mr Crangle eyeing him suspiciously every time he the Bookman . |
| 3 | But she has grown up strangely , and she treats him with a cold formality , calling him ‘ Sir ’ but correcting him almost every time he speaks . |
| 4 | Lastly , put some dry leaves and grasses into the box , filling it about a quarter full . |
| 5 | i i perhaps in terms of if you think of it in terms of like the employer of the day , Well we 've paid an external trainer to come along , it 's actually costing us quite a lot of money . |
| 6 | You know , and you , you then have that sheet , and how much is my time worth , and how much is his time worth , or her time worth , and you can say , you know , these interruptions are actually costing us quite a lot of month . |
| 7 | I often notice him looking at me and paying me rather a lot of compliments . |
| 8 | The thought of inserting the diaphragm was worrying me quite a bit . |
| 9 | Moving her just a fraction away , his eyes once more holding hers captive , he added , ‘ So is n't it fortunate that I know you for the cheat you are ? ’ |
| 10 | Now spreading it over a year means that the project administration jumps dramatically , and there 's about four , five thousand pounds ' worth in there . |
| 11 | To add further complication , English speakers rarely give that lake the name used by Swiss , French , Germans and Italians , calling it instead the Lake of Luzern , a name which the Swiss only apply to one arm ( and almost the smallest at that ) of this many-armed lake . |
| 12 | You know when Beecham was conducting it once a trumpeter came in early in one of the big silences : the kind of catastrophe you can do nothing about . |
| 13 | As opposed to giving them possibly a ball bearing . |
| 14 | With the building trade in heavy recession , you may find builders approaching you once the council publishes brief details of your planning application ( if planning approval was necessary ) in the local press under the heading of Public Notices . |
| 15 | He had a flowing white mane , and an expression of vaguely inscrutable self-possession , giving him somewhat the air of a Nordic Chinese Mandarin . |
| 16 | I would agree with that , but I would just like to pick up three two of there have been one or two instances felt that they have necessarily make aware perhaps that something 's coming up in er difficult , but I just wanted to mention that er I do n't know what the procedures are actually , but I mean it d did n't seem to be one or two cases not saying it necessarily the department 's fault , I 'm er just making the point . |
| 17 | giving it just a couple more minutes and if he does n't come |
| 18 | In a general election on April 20 the largest of the four main parties , the conservative pro-European Communities Independence Party ( IP ) , recovered the votes which had gone to a breakaway liberal Citizens ' Party ( CP ) in the April 1987 elections [ see pp. 35138-39 ] , giving it twice the representation of the next-largest party . |
| 19 | It is in five movements , and is graced by a major role for the solo oboe , giving it almost the character of a concerto . |
| 20 | He was still doing it over an hour later , frantically trying to remember everything and wishing he had somewhere to write it all down , when there was a sound of feet running up the stairs . |
| 21 | Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game . |
| 22 | ‘ It came to the stage when I was married to Michael but seeing him once a week , ’ said Gabrielle . |
| 23 | Everyone benefited from knowing them so a spot of poaching was not held against them . |
| 24 | Naturally , Reynard started there , drew the first blank , which did n't disconcert him ( he would have been disappointed by an easy discovery anyway ) and composed himself to delve deeper , perhaps taking it backwards a month at a time , beginning with Malamute 's employment with Club Eleusis . |
| 25 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 26 | Find I 'm down to using it twice a week now . |
| 27 | The first , having special application to devout families , was that God had favoured the dead child , by taking it to Himself and so sparing it both the suffering of this world and the danger that its relative innocence ( for children were born in sin ) would become corrupted . |
| 28 | Assertion comes into being when you still bring the conversation back this is what I want nothing else will do , and bringing it right the way back all the time to discuss what it is why it 's called a broken record exercise , we 'll give it a quick go now . |
| 29 | But for his act in bringing it there no mischief could have accrued , and it seems but just that he should at his peril keep it there so that no mischief may accrue , or answer for the natural and anticipated consequences . |
| 30 | I , I made them I started making them quite a while ago . |