Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I sold CBS the video I kept apologising for the movement because it was so shaky . |
| 2 | Secondly , and allowing for the possibility that our global score might have detected minor increases in the mucosal neutrophils in some cases of mild active duodenitis , the number of patients with heavy neutrophilic infiltration ( severe active duodenitis ) was also greater in the absence of NSAIDs . |
| 3 | Obviously their chance at the draw bag is now four to one instead of one hundred to one , and even allowing for the fact that they will undoubtedly be called lucky so and so 's for drawing well all the time , with odds of four to one it is not so surprising . |
| 4 | Allowing for the fact that one knows oneself to be above suspicion — has any action or attitude of one 's own been such as to inspire suspicion in others ? |
| 5 | All I will say here is that Bukharin was far too sanguine in his treatment of such a transition , even allowing for the fact that it was being treated at a purely abstract level . |
| 6 | I shall draw up a timetable , hour by hour , and allowing for the fact that he must have slept , I expect to see the spaces filled in . |
| 7 | They work for those and algebra just follows , so it just follows the normal rules that we 're using for the numbers that we know . |
| 8 | He had been hurrying to finish this latest copy before the meal ended , and seeing through the slit that his wife was heading out across the clearing with his two small sons to begin collecting the dishes , he put aside his pencil and hastily read over what he 'd written . |
| 9 | Have you talked only about the bride cooking for the bridegroom when you know she is a career girl and a women 's libber , and if she is not some of the audience will be ? |
| 10 | Partly I am mesmerised by its spinach-green tanks and cowling , its red pulleys , dogs and levers , its greasy leather belts , its twitching , glittering blades , stink of hot oil , petrol , exhaust … and partly I am praying for the chance that something — I 've no idea what , but just something — may go wrong … so that I , Jimbo , the firstborn , may step into the breach and save the day . |
| 11 | She told The Universe , the Catholic weekly : ‘ I am praying for the family and I feel very sorry for them . |
| 12 | ‘ The worst time was driving through the night as we approached Nice at 3am . |
| 13 | ‘ On our first date we were driving through the countryside when we spotted some sheep out in a field . |
| 14 | A DPP lawyer said a female member of staff was walking through the shop when she felt something hard stuck in her side . |
| 15 | Cos they 're walking through the area and they 'll if they 've had a few pints , Let's go down Oh we 'll walk through Flats and we 'll smash one or two lights up , smash one or two windows . |
| 16 | I saw her walking through the harbour and I followed . |
| 17 | To identify a fluttering shadow as the outline of a bird is not so revealing as the recognition that it is actually cast by a butterfly . |
| 18 | His big blond head kept coming up , shaking once and then bobbing through the water as he struck out for the machine . |
| 19 | Mr Buxton would not say how many companies were bidding for the work but he hoped the successful tender would be accepted in March , allowing work to start . |
| 20 | The hedgehogs could hear its tremendous feet crunching through the weeds as it bounded away . |
| 21 | Mr. Langley on behalf of the Bank of England submitted that the basis of the injunction was the relationship of confidence subsisting between the Bank and its customer , and that it was well established that the duty of confidence was overridden by the duty to comply with the law , as shown by Reg. v. Inland Revenue Commissioners , Ex parte Taylor ( No. 2 ) [ 1989 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 22 | ‘ I do not suppose , however , that you will be applying for the position so I shall wait for Alain to send a few people here for me to see . |
| 23 | No I just heard it as I was going walking past the pub and it was on . |
| 24 | ‘ You can see if there 's any disease from browning of the plant and you can see how well they 've been dried — they must n't be crusty round the edges . |
| 25 | ‘ We had been to the pub down the road and were walking towards the crossing when we saw the train was coming , ‘ she said . |
| 26 | We suddenly woke up very cold and saw the men climbing up the hill and we hid . ’ |
| 27 | Living as he was on the borders of his lost paradise , in the limitless landscape of childhood from which he had been banished into adulthood , an uncomfortable country , I sensed that Jean-Claude was continually grappling with the feeling that his present was a poor reflection of his past . |
| 28 | At first she had disliked this , but Rose 's amusement , and the joking of those around them , had infected her , too , and she had found herself giggling and laughing with the rest as they were shuffled along . |
| 29 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |
| 30 | ‘ Roads , park , dispensary , institute , and so on — a hundred and twenty thousand pounds ; repairs and upkeep , recurring , four thousand … ’ and so on through all the elements that make for the running of a town , ending with the caution that it was ‘ all very round-figurey . ’ |