Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More importantly , it was now divided into five departments on an essentially geographical basis , three of them handling relations with distinct groups of European states and the other two those with Asiatic ones ( China , Persia , the khanates of central Asia and the little Georgian kingdoms in the Caucasus ) . |
| 2 | Or maybe it 's simpler than that , and has to do with them seeing Tod in his natural environment , the doctor , the gatekeeper , his white coat and his black bag . |
| 3 | and you went up there and there 's them building sort of on the top is n't there |
| 4 | I 'm telling you this with authority because he 's made me typing monitor in the matter . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 6 | The farmer and his family were delighted to watch me eating food with my own small knife and fork . |
| 7 | She told me that if I left Roy and went home she would forgive me having Carla and everything … forgive me bringing shame on them by marrying a hoodlum . |
| 8 | They came forward eagerly , offering what skills and abilities they had ; farmers , a conservation adviser , a photographer , a botanist , a medical practice manager ; most of them parents themselves , all of them becoming part of the support surrounding the South Ronaldsay families and determined to fight for them . |
| 9 | Few crews get home without someone becoming host to some parasites . |
| 10 | Someone hiring goods under a hire-purchase agreement is not a ‘ buyer ’ and therefore can not pass good title under either the Factors Act , section 9 or the Sale o Act , section 25 . |
| 11 | For the same reason , someone hiring goods under a hire purchase agreement is also excluded . |
| 12 | The style is clear and all information relevant to someone flying VFR at 50 kts is included . |
| 13 | ‘ When it comes to someone getting ideas above her station , Anya … ’ |
| 14 | Thus someone buying coal from the National Coal Board does have the benefit of the implied condition that it shall be of merchantable quality . |
| 15 | Therefore ‘ no personal circumstances would preclude my giving thought to coming to London ’ . |
| 16 | The question is can a small shareholder do anything for Rushdie , am I doing damage for Pearson ? |
| 17 | What am I doing pontificating about art and history ? |
| 18 | Yet I still do n't understand you — remember when you put a stop to my having dinner Chez Auguste ? ’ |
| 19 | → We so often receive letters from people slamming companies for poor service , that it 's nice to receive a letter from someone heaping praise upon a manufacturer for a job well done . |
| 20 | Not only is it possible to get an accurate computer analysis of the fundamental frequency of speech ( which can be displayed on a screen for someone doing practice on intonation , or can be used in the study of the intonation of large samples of natural speech ) , but it is now possible to get a computer to produce a simple phonetic transcription of what is said to it . |
| 21 | So this seems to be part of a series of incidents … or , perhaps , someone taking advantage of a series of incidents . |
| 22 | There are exceptional circumstances , such as my total castration or my taking vows as a monk , where my only residual fitness is that which accrues to me through my assistances to relatives . |
| 23 | That is another example of someone criticising short-termism by taking the shortest possible short-term view . |
| 24 | The relation between decreased urinary albumin excretion and changes in filtration fraction is consistent with the hypotheses of a predominant role of glomerular haemodynamic alterations in producing microalbuminuria in insulin dependent diabetes and also of the decisive role of the reduction in intraglomerular capillary pressure mediated by angiotensin I converting inhibitors in the antialbuminuric effects of these compounds . |
| 25 | One evening the Under-Secretary and the expatriate managed to call within minutes of each other and we found ourselves playing host to them both . |
| 26 | I went back and carried on with my putting practice for a while . |
| 27 | Even as we start to write , we find ourselves making contact with feelings for rhythm and style . |
| 28 | I honestly do n't think they would object to my marrying Madeleine on the grounds of my birth . |
| 29 | Amanda had started massaging his shoulders ; he 'd closed his eyes and imagined a hot sun and someone rubbing oil on his back , and then she 'd slipped off the bed and had gone to have a bath with the other complimentary packet of foam . |
| 30 | I have someone leaking information from inside Tuwaithah . |