Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only then , as the brilliant colour swam into her face , was Lindsey aware of Niall , shielding her from the other man 's gaze , gaining her the precious seconds she needed to recover . |
| 2 | ‘ You are serving us the fermented grapes from Noah 's vines ? ’ |
| 3 | Why else would I spend a nickel phoning you the glad tidings . ’ |
| 4 | As a Golf Plus Club Member you can enjoy up to a 20% discount on a year 's subscription to Britain 's best golf magazines bringing you the best pictures and best coverage of your favourite game . |
| 5 | Next Sunday we shall be bringing you the last Ideas in Action programme before Christmas . |
| 6 | Here at Radio Rentals , we believe in bringing you the latest developments — as they happen ! |
| 7 | The doctor was paying her the ten shillings , she could afford to be friendly . |
| 8 | Without all these controls companies will still be making standard phone calls and writing them up afterwards into signed telephone logs and considering them the best records of a transaction . |
| 9 | It 's probably only that old quack Hardacre feeding him the wrong antibiotics — Agnes shared George 's view of Sir Frank ‘ — but if each course takes five days before they decide it is n't working , it can run on . |
| 10 | I did not see the value in teaching him the English equivalents of these words , and merely reminded him to talk in English . |
| 11 | Throughout human history , disabled people have constantly confounded the low expectations of others , and how much better it would be for special educators to raise the expectations of disabled children and their families by giving them an understanding of this , by helping them to accept their disabled identities with pride , by helping them to understand their place in the world and their rights as well as giving them the practical skills to deal with these issues . |
| 12 | Finally , reward those who have read the papers by giving them the most opportunities to talk about the material and to express their views . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , that was because Lesley-Jane was giving me the wrong cues . |
| 14 | to see which ones are giving you the good profits , sort of thing . |
| 15 | So , Himmler was giving him the same powers as he had given Max Radl for Operation Eagle . |
| 16 | I 'd have been in it and in those bars in Gibraltar giving it the big lips by last night . ’ |
| 17 | This applies both to the boys and the girls , the latter up until recently giving us the best prospects for success . |
| 18 | ‘ They 're giving us the extra points ! |
| 19 | Dumas grew jealous of the workmanship and insisted on the Bey lending him the best craftsmen , saying ‘ you need that room only after your death , but I need your craftsmen while I am alive ’ . |
| 20 | I 'm reading him the Greek myths at bedtime and I just hope when we get to Oedipus the penny will drop . |
| 21 | So I believe in coddling my memory , just slipping it the finer morsels of experience . |
| 22 | It is interesting to ask whether the qualities Spenser conferred on the Irish , making them the hostile outsiders who needed to be suppressed but who his texts acknowledge to be also a lurking part of the civilised English , are still part of current English imaginative experience . |
| 23 | In the old days , travel agents looked after their customers by finding them the best-value hotels at the required destination . |
| 24 | He took them for drives , showing her the extraordinary beauties of Umbria . |
| 25 | We had a very good time , & good weather , for the rest of our stay , & I think Richard enjoyed showing us the many attractions of his area as much as we enjoyed seeing them . |
| 26 | At the end of each section there is a summary of the main events of each of the legs showing us the different problems of all 23 entries . |
| 27 | But the handful of abilities involved in our areas of common interest are like a postage stamp on a bed sheet compared to all that goes into making us the unique individuals we are . |
| 28 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 29 | Telling me the strangest things sometimes , evil things — till I want to shout out or smash them to pieces . |
| 30 | Josh Cornock was telling me the big tides of the last few days have brought the elvers down . |