Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [noun] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stepmothers got into the act , with one lady castigating Princess Di for her alleged unkind treatment of her stepmum . |
| 2 | The ship is due to sail that day : on shore with the captain at a prize-fight , he overhears a plot to kidnap a certain American lady visiting Los Xicales with her brother , and rides out on a bicycle to warn them but also expecting that this will be the moment foretold for that second meeting . |
| 3 | And true to form Graham Sale lost no time in capitalising on an opportunity presenting Douglas Hurd with his own clock . |
| 4 | Our picture above shows Roger Manning , Peugeot 's Marketing Director presenting Mr Davies with his car . |
| 5 | Instead of offloading underperforming RISC machines on its customers — thousands of which were crying out for more power — it rushed to boost the power of its obsolete 16-bit processor by every tweak possible , and virtually gave the things away . |
| 6 | To show how our minds work we would visualise an aeroplane tearing down the runway dragging alarm clocks behind it on strings . |
| 7 | He never lost the affection and respect of the bank manager Fred Elt whose portrait he painted and with whom he occasionally dined at Elt 's basement flat in Gloucester Place , on one occasion taking Susan Einzig with him . |
| 8 | ‘ I ended up spending all night watching porn videos with them in Hounslow , ’ she trilled . |
| 9 | On Oct. 30 a controversial measure giving blanket immunity to anyone who had committed a politically motivated crime before Oct. 8 , 1990 [ see p. 39037 ] was approved by the President 's Council and thus became law , despite its having been rejected on Oct. 20 by the House of Delegates , the Indian chamber of the tricameral parliament . |
| 10 | In 1980 the protesters even took the daring step of erecting a scaffolding tower across the path of the train carrying waste barrels on their way to the docks . |
| 11 | " The body was seen by a woman crossing Southwark Bridge on her way to work — she 's a cleaner at a block of offices in Upper Thames Street . |
| 12 | In response the Georgian Supreme Soviet on the following day passed legislation stripping South Ossetia of its autonomy . |
| 13 | President Gorbachev on Jan. 7 issued a decree annulling South Ossetia 's September 1990 declaration of secession from Georgia , and the December Georgian Supreme Soviet legislation stripping South Ossetia of its autonomy . |
| 14 | People will help themselves and save you a lot of work , as will buying paper plates for everyone to use and making the buffet a finger buffet with lots of little bits and pieces of food , and nothing that has to be served onto a plate with a spoon or cut up with a knife and fork . |
| 15 | Then her eyes widened in surprise as she felt his lips against her fingers , his unexpected caress sending shooting stars through her veins . |
| 16 | You can sell a house by saying it 's near to the station , or the shops : or you can be really eccentric and say it 's a life giving spa centre with its own magic water source . |
| 17 | In the letter informing Mrs Falconer of her redundancy , Iain Kennedy , the personnel officer at RGU , states that the level of staffing required for textile teaching had diminished from two full-time to 0.8 full-time equivalent unpromoted staff . |
| 18 | A statement expressed ‘ sincere regret ’ for the letter informing Mr Gooch of his dismissal and confirmed the letter was based on misinformation . |
| 19 | On his deathbed , he quoted to his physician Macbeth 's own words to the doctor attending Lady Macbeth for her ‘ thickcoming fancies ’ ; Johnson never loved uncritically . |
| 20 | Appearing at Drury Lane was a dream come true for Crawford , who had previously been there just once , in the audience watching Julie Andrews in My Fair Lady . |
| 21 | The system of interest group pressure ensuring state responsiveness to its publics thus appears to be flawed . |
| 22 | It would be a bit like choosing to go and spend all Sunday afternoon discussing skin diseases with your 75-year-old deaf aunty in Coatbridge , instead of taking up your boyfriend 's offer of a day in bed at an expensive country house hotel , drinking champagne while he gives you a bit of a seeing to . |
| 23 | We have a Residents ' bar for you use and a pretty sea facing patio garden for you to relax in . |
| 24 | At their annual trade show today , cable companies expressed alarm at the prospect of competition from B T. There 's a government ban on the phone company sending television pictures over its network but the regulators believe the ban does n't cover video on demand . |
| 25 | Bridges ( 1979 ) certainly does n't think so because he sees the curriculum as a selection from culture requiring value judgements over which teachers have no monopoly of wisdom . |
| 26 | Stuart McCall , Sales Representative for Gloucester relaxes at the weekend organising carpet samples in his garage . |
| 27 | A comic romp starring Billy Crystal in which a group of disgruntled New Yorkers play out their frontiersmen fantasies on a two week cattle-drive in New Mexico . |