Example sentences of "[v-ing] i [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , ter cut a long story short 'e ends up tellin' me that the last bloke was put off fer losin' too much time an' I might be a bad time-keeper as well , what wiv me injuries . |
| 2 | He brushed up my biochemistry , informing me that the long chain fences of fat molecules are antipodean in scale set beside the dry stone walls of mere proteins , and that he himself had it as an ambition to contrive that his entire body should be sheathed in one enormous fat molecule . |
| 3 | Your letter of 27 Feb. , informing me that the current account was overdrawn and charging the Club to rectify this , was the last straw . |
| 4 | I did n't get a reply before election day , so I voted Green ; it arrived two days after the election , reassuring me that the Labour Party was committed to improving gay rights . |
| 5 | He destroyed my dreams in his first sentence by assuring me that the current wrought iron well cover only dated to the beginning of this century . |