Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giving their decision , Lord Hope said strong reasons had been given for hearing what the children had to say without taking them back to Orkney . |
| 2 | The major reason given for giving them the boot was the requirement for a shit-hot pitch when the Euro championships come round in 96 . |
| 3 | One might be excused for wondering what the aged poet really believed . |
| 4 | Part of the refugee problem will be solved by granting them the right of return to Palestine ( i.e. the West Bank and Gaza Strip ) or to the Jordanian-Palestinian federation . ’ |
| 5 | Madam Deputy Speaker I was gon na give a very illustrative example of what I 'm talking about but perhaps I will allow the house to have that example on another occasion because I actually would prefer not to be er er er prevented from giving you the most vivid story of what I 'm talking about . |
| 6 | No progress will be made without agreeing what the fundamental questions and issues really are . ’ |
| 7 | This is best answered by asking what the desired goal is . |
| 8 | Marie had thought about telling him the truth : that Bella had seen him and the police would soon be after him . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just got through telling you the food situation . |
| 10 | The formal literal meaning of the words is the locution ; the act which is performed by saying it the illocution ; a third layer is the perlocution or overall aim of the discourse . |
| 11 | ‘ The madam would have had me if I had n't escaped by telling her the lodger in the room next door to mine fancied her like crazy , ’ he said . |
| 12 | But whether or not they had sufficient power to exert real influence on state policy , the monarchs were justified in considering themselves the most important persons on the European political stage . |
| 13 | They 're just sort of relics of a time when people experimented with shapes and tried all kinds of different things ; these days instrument makers seem to have settled on making everything the same . |
| 14 | So , next time you buy a guitar strap with ‘ Klondyke ’ on it , you 'll know what 's gone into making it the best , not just in the UK but all over the world . |
| 15 | Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave . |
| 16 | I have another seven days before Jens 's cousin arrives from the States and finds his would-be protégé has been seduced into giving him the cold shoulder . ’ |
| 17 | Having worked on providing everything the dying person needs , the next step is to prepare to say goodbye . |
| 18 | Marshall had taken to calling it the rumour factory because a disproportionate amount of time seemed to be wasted on chatter . |
| 19 | But to suggest that a speech community is diffuse ( or internally divergent ) is not to imply that it is necessarily unpatterned or unstructured : on the contrary , our task is to find out how the variation is structured by demonstrating what the patterns in the community are like . |
| 20 | But Peter had insisted on giving her the earrings as an engagement present , with the promise that a ring would soon follow . |
| 21 | The type payoff is maximized by setting whatever the actions of the other agents ; this is a dominant strategy . |
| 22 | The earliest large-scale sculpture we have in limestone or marble does not go with the earliest Daedalic ; but the wide acceptance of such an individual style is most naturally explained by supposing it the creation of one artist or school producing major works at major sanctuaries . |
| 23 | Bill Rear has captured the passing years on this line perfectly and his publishers are to be congratulated for allowing him the space in which to present his work . |