Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't mind seeing them a long way off , ’ said the worried lady nome . |
| 2 | Adjuring Theda , in the prettiest way , to wait for her here , Miss Merchiston then escorted Mr Quatt to the front door , presumably bidding him a fond farewell in the sickeningly sugary tone she had chosen to adopt towards him . |
| 3 | This view , if it could be adequately defended , would successfully stave off individualism by denying it a significant part in social explanation ; but to establish the point is far from easy . |
| 4 | Yet despite that authoritative vindication , the moment the PLO makes what might at first sight appear a slight regression to its old-style militancy , the US promptly joins the Israeli ‘ extremists ’ in pronouncing it a serious setback for the peace process . |
| 5 | 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 ! ’ |
| 6 | shell landed forty metres behind me , causing me a disagreeable surprise . |
| 7 | The thin pad can be rolled up and discarded with its coat of mulm , saving you a great deal of maintenance in the main filter . |
| 8 | So — I 'll be writing you a boring letter about business matters , but ca n't we meet ? |
| 9 | I am writing you a joint letter this time , as I forget who I sent my last card to . |
| 10 | This was costing him a small fortune . |
| 11 | Hugh 's last scruples about seeing him cut out of the will were satisfied by writing him a personal letter of appeal . |
| 12 | Again Heston held a good deal of creative control over the enterprise , and made his point to Caulfield by writing him a firm letter telling him to be on time or else . |
| 13 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 14 | Sien was causing him a great deal of worry as the year wore on . |
| 15 | And they spurred forward to pursue and take him , no doubt believing it a happy chance for them , and the Lord Owen caused his horse to appear to drop lame , and so encouraged and led them until they were spread all along the field in open order , within close range of the bowmen in the woods . |
| 16 | This will change as you work , in the same way that colour 1 did , allowing you a large area of colour displayed for yarn matching . |
| 17 | they pay , they pay , they are paying me a little bit , I think it ought to go up in price a bit though myself |
| 18 | The prospects may therefore be good for a long-term strategy which aims at both restricting the scale of most operating units and granting them a reasonable degree of operational autonomy in order to make participative democracy a feasible proposition , while developing further the economies of administration , co-ordination , etc. which are at present realised by large-scale enterprises . |
| 19 | Mat. , she had managed to give the impression authority was granting me a great favour . |
| 20 | No employer has a right to take the work of a man or a woman without paying them a living wage . |
| 21 | People who think they 're being persecuted always think people are paying them a great deal of attention so they come to believe that they must in a sense be very important people , ’ he said . |
| 22 | He treated his established artists as professional associates , entering into legal contracts and paying them a regular income in advance against sales . |
| 23 | I did think of paying them a non-means-tested benefit in exchange for abstention , but I 'm sure I 'd never get the figures past Margaret Beckett . |
| 24 | are now considering awarding them a permanent memento . |
| 25 | By paying you a decent wage ? ’ |
| 26 | The company selling you a new machine should be prepared to give you the names of others who are using it . |
| 27 | We did n't want to pop in else your father would be saying that we 're after selling you a new hat again , knowing your weakness for hats . ’ |
| 28 | He started living lavishly and tried to extort more and more money from the government who were paying him a tax-free pension of $1,050 a month . |
| 29 | I 've been paying him a little visit . ’ |
| 30 | Keele University acknowledged Michael Akehurst 's position as one of the foremost international lawyers of his time by awarding him a personal chair in February 1989 . |