Example sentences of "[vb mod] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in Colossians 1:9ff Paul prays for Christians he has never met , his first request is that the Spirit would give them understanding of the Lord 's will for their lives ; then , that they should live their lives in accordance with that will by pleasing the Lord in everything ; then , that they should increase in their knowledge of God ; and finally , that they should be strengthened with all might according to the measure of his glorious power which should result for them as it did for Christ , not in arrogance but in patience and longsuffering . |
| 2 | I 'll going in the afternoon |
| 3 | She advanced to the desk she threw open the lid dramatically Mary-Lou drew in her breath and got away as far as she could looking at the inside of her desk with scared eyes |
| 4 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 5 | Can sticking with the sort of the general non-strategic development in the countryside , would such a policy work , would it be better than E two as proposed , would it be worse , would it be weaker ? |
| 6 | The greatest of the epilogues for me comes at the end of Don Quixote where Quixote says , ‘ I have battled , I have made mistakes , but I have lived my life as best I can according to the world as I see it , and now … ’ . |
| 7 | just write down all the information we 've got now so there is can recycling at the swimming pool and at Tesco privately run . |
| 8 | Quite clearly the objective and you can reading between the lines of the propaganda which pours out er of the Chinese Communist Party for the late thirties onwards , reading between the lines you can see it the objective is essentially Chinese state power , achieving power and using power to build er a national er unified , modern state . |