Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is mistaken in accusing me of that . |
| 2 | Anybody who is interested in helping them in either capacity should phone Mrs. Noakes on Petersfield 263749 . |
| 3 | I had considerable difficulty in dissuading him from this course and only did so when I was able to convince him that , far from assisting Aitken , it would damage his cause . |
| 4 | My brother and I shared a room for a while but we soon had a partition put in allowing us to each have our separate rooms . |
| 5 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 6 | Wooing first John and then Richard , Philip succeeded in keeping them at each other 's throats , or at Henry 's coat-tails , for several more years . |
| 7 | Or do you not see any point in keeping them at all ? is the number to dial . |
| 8 | Because social changes which can be fitted into comparatively lengthy processes are yoked together with some structures in a single category , much of the history of conjonctures consists in relating one to another . |
| 9 | In many respects deconstruction has not been avidly employed in analysing Renaissance texts and there is a certain contradiction in employing it in this study . |
| 10 | The Directive 's provisions are also so flexible , because of the difficulty in reaching a consensus among the member states and commentators , that there are grave doubts about whether there is any point in adopting them at all . |
| 11 | In addressing ourselves to this process , we are not speculating . |
| 12 | In addressing itself to such possibilities , however , A Bend in the River , for all its air of simplicity , is never simple . |
| 13 | He should neither do damage to Mr. Jones , nor be slow in warning him of any impending danger ; fornication , marriage , gambling and the haunting of taverns or playhouses was strictly proscribed , and generally a monastic restraint was to be observed in all things . |
| 14 | It was in meeting him on this ground that the British came closest to responding to him as a worthy adversary . |
| 15 | The office gossip had been quite useful in reassuring him on that point , and he had been able to view the uncomfortable ride in the lift with them in an encouraging new light . |
| 16 | The law is therefore most unfair to victims of negligence ; in limiting them in this way it totally ignores the reality of the situation . |
| 17 | He patented in 1870 a wheeled ‘ apparatus for affording protection from bullets and other missiles ’ , but did not succeed in selling it to any of Europe 's warring armies . |
| 18 | No point in rushing something like this . ’ |
| 19 | For , whatever else , she would not marry Havvie Blaine now , and she would lose no time in informing him of that fact . |
| 20 | Extreme care should therefore be taken in prescribing them at all : if the recipient has addictive disease these drugs will make it worse . |
| 21 | That this ‘ fourth channel ’ was the last available national channel transformed it into a very valuable national resource and , consequently , there has always been some concern lest one make a terrible ‘ mistake ’ in allocating it to some unworthy body or organization . |
| 22 | So you can understand what a sacrifice it is your father is making in sending you to this school . |
| 23 | And as Mary Douglas ( 1973 : 15 ) had pointed out , ‘ if we can not bring the argument back from tribal ethnography to ourselves , then there is little point in starting it at all ’ . |
| 24 | So much is now known of the Alpine fold belts , the times and forms of their movements , and so much is now being deduced about the relationship of all this to the theories of plate tectonics , that I marvel at my audacity in saying anything at all at this stage . |
| 25 | I thought at the time that her absent luncheon companion must have been a boorish character , and even the greatest friends of Randolph Churchill would find difficulty in defending him from this charge . |
| 26 | There was clearly a close friendship between them , and the Office gives a moving account of his efficacy in curing her of some kind of fit : He came and found her mute , but when he had seated himself at her window and they had eaten together , it chanced that at the end of the dinner the recluse wished to sleep , and oppressed by slumber her head drooped towards the window where God 's saint , Richard , was reclining , and as she was leaning a litle on that same Richard , suddenly , with a vehement onslaught , such a grave vexation took her in her sleep that she seemed to wish to break the window of her house , and in that strong vexation she awoke , her speech was restored , and with great devotion she broke out into the words " Gloria tibi Domine " , and the blessed Richard completed the verse which she had begun . |
| 27 | ‘ Let me not tire of thanking you , ’ he wrote , ‘ for your mercy in rescuing me from all my wicked ways . ’ |
| 28 | Since they would n't want to declare their real objective , even if they had one , they see little point in having one at all . |
| 29 | Garfinkel 's interest is not in whether they are right or wrong in perceiving it in this way , but rather in how they come to perceive it in this way , and what effect this perception has on their actions . |
| 30 | There is no point in involving me in this regrettable matter . ’ |