Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bringing them and the milk together , however , is something of a problem . |
| 2 | She had also decided to invite Louise and Miriam , whom she wanted to impress with her domestic abilities , but only after a struggle in which she was torn between the pleasure of impressing them and the displeasure of having two more women and thereby disturbing what she considered to be a favourable balance of the sexes . |
| 3 | The dissonance between the act of firing someone and the manager 's beliefs about what is acceptable or decent behaviour from one individual to another can be extremely painful . |
| 4 | If I did n't want it he would say that he was keeping me and the least I could do was give him sex . |
| 5 | Typical criteria , methods of applying them and the influence of financial analysis methods on ranking order are discussed . |
| 6 | Typical criteria , methods of applying them and the influence of financial analysis methods on ranking order are discussed . |
| 7 | It is not just a great city ; it is , or rather was , a great port and shipbuilding city , and that matters in understanding it and the places which are like it . |
| 8 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 9 | Why is n't these doctors that are condemning it and the pharmacists and so forth , together on a panel of something and expose it on T V or in the press that they condemn it . |
| 10 | Whilst the heads do not represent a legally binding document , the drafting process for the heads will tend to assist the progress of the deal by enabling yourselves and the vendor to focus on the key issues . |
| 11 | He would not risk bringing himself and the Kharkov base into disrepute by pursuing the matter any further . |
| 12 | What I 'd like you to do just for the last ten minutes is to think of a member of staff you have who has a training need and think about how you will go about training them and the methods that you will use . |
| 13 | One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles . |
| 14 | Woken the next morning , yet again , by the early arrival of the twins , there had simply been no opportunity to do more than groggily force herself to rise , dressing herself and the children before completing the packing of all their suitcases . |
| 15 | He wanted to be free — of all constraints , all material imperatives , of all the forces hunting him and the opportunities drawing him on . |
| 16 | In each case , MI5 alleged that those who had reported such stories were either mentally unbalanced , or seeking publicity , which was a convenient way of denigrating them and the tales . |
| 17 | In addition Carlsson created a new inner Cabinet comprising himself and the Ministers of Finance , Justice , Labour , Industry and Foreign Affairs . |
| 18 | She could hear him being professionally cheerful , caricaturing himself and the Cloth , as he did , under stress . |
| 19 | Since the companies set the price , they determined both the amount of profit per bbl from extracting it and the amount of tax the ‘ host government ’ could levy on the process . |
| 20 | It is elicited by being ‘ pushed around ’ and yields the feeling that one 's self exercises no control over the circumstances surrounding it and the destiny awaiting it ’ . |
| 21 | In my opinion the true themes of religion are being lost in all the disputes surrounding it and the fact the religion is a force for the good needs to promoted . |
| 22 | In addition , there are all the practical difficulties as to the accessibility of Parliamentary material , the cost of researching it and the use of court time in analysing it , which are good reasons for maintaining the rule . |
| 23 | Melissa began turning it and the heavy metal blind inched upwards , admitting a broadening band of sparkling light . |
| 24 | Economics provided the calculus for measuring it and the rules for its satisfactory regulation . |
| 25 | and Clifford , no Clifford said , the lads to each other are we going out again dad you know cos oh Margaret was in , yes , and there was some other boys , the boy across the road was eating something and the boys said and Clifford said do you mind if I just sit in the chair and be quiet for just a few minutes and he just sat in the chair and had his heart attack |
| 26 | with dad holding me and the |
| 27 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 28 | Having entered the fieldnames you use the command /Data , Query , Criteria to specify the range containing them and the row directly below ( to be used to enter the conditions ) as the Criteria range . |
| 29 | Putting on a heavy pack is not always easy — the best way is to stand the pack on the ground with the harness facing you and the slings slackened off . |
| 30 | If there were rumours concerning herself and the new medical officer she wanted them quashed before they had a chance to spread . |