Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In creating whole group dramas we should be aware of the need to ensure that every child feels they have a stake in what is happening and that they can genuinely influence outcomes . |
| 2 | I took this medical test to be a sign that things were happening and that we could hope to go on to Paris , which Alex said was the next staging post . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've got to be up there challenging and if we 're not , then people will have a go at us . |
| 4 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 5 | The other occasion that we looked that , er a week or so back when he called down Zaccheus , from that tree in which he was hiding last week his judge , Pilate but of all of those interviews and th the many others that we have n't looked at , this surely must one of the strangest , as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need . |
| 6 | For his part , Edward sensed that the ice was cracking and since he desperately needed money , preferably without political complications — his lay subjects were restive now — he restored the archbishop 's lands and offered the primate and several magnates what they were by then demanding — confirmation of Magna Carta , the Charter of the Forest and some additional articles . |
| 7 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 8 | For the conclusion reached by Dunham 's team was that the Sun has indeed been shrinking and that its radius — or , strictly speaking , half the measured angular diameter — has contracted by 0.34 seconds of arc over 264 years . |
| 9 | He knew , too , that his head had been aching and that his mind was capable of playing tricks upon him . |
| 10 | Later , the only Gentile writer in the New Testament tells us that on one occasion the disciples found Jesus praying and when he had finished they asked him , ‘ ’ Lord , teach us to pray . ’ |
| 11 | One result of my illness has been to change all that : When you are faced with the possibility of an early death , it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are lots of things you want to do . |
| 12 | And both these events are in keeping with the image we 're seeking and as I said self financing . |
| 13 | On some cases yes because I was always told this man he that used to come and he was so clean looking and that he was a barber . |
| 14 | Such monitoring should not only be backward , it must be forward looking and where it can be seen that a task has taken longer than anticipated , the effect of such delay should be immediately considered in relation to the overall programme . |
| 15 | He could see that her lower lip was trembling and that her eyes were moist . |
| 16 | The lamp-smudges seemed to swim towards me , dipping and swaying off-centre as I approached them My legs were trembling and when I put my hand against my face it was burning , and yet clammy . |
| 17 | Women and men stand in a different relationship to language and women writers should remember this fact both while they are writing and when they receive rejection slips from publishers . |
| 18 | When stardom struck , he was already in his thirties , the hair showed signs of receding and because it was brown Beatty taught him a trick with make-up shadow that reduced the emphasis of an enlarged forehead . |
| 19 | ‘ I realised the drink was not helping and that I would have to stop it . ’ |
| 20 | For instance , Kathy ( aged 14 ) started sniffing and although she was a very bright girl , she could n't explain why . |
| 21 | While she changed , she could hear the others laughing and singing and when she emerged from the changing-room she found them all in the foyer waiting for her to emerge . |
| 22 | So the service was not unfamiliar ; the readings from the Bible in the magnificent prose of Martin Luther , the prayers , the general confession , the great hymns , sung with unaffected fervour and in which Erika joined ( although she was critical of the flautist ) both because she liked singing and because it would have hurt Omi had she remained silent . |
| 23 | I still have some letters which Mother and Father wrote to each other — beautiful letters , which are a revelation of their lives , both when they were courting and after they were married . |
| 24 | As a publish writer yourself I told her I 've been published articles you will understand the need for market targeting and as you mention at twenty thousand words is not full-length , though this could be if was aimed at children . |
| 25 | And also it 'll the bound to be building and that it 'll , you watch them . |
| 26 | " And he has n't asked about me , " says the woman , who still loves her husband and worries about whether he 's eating and whether he 's well . |
| 27 | I told him that we were n't eating and that we were n't paying the rent — almost destitute . |
| 28 | Of course the horse named Bess , which I was given had a mind of its own , since it would always be eating and when it was not it only plodded along . |
| 29 | I like experimenting and if I led a less erratic lifestyle I would do more of it . |
| 30 | So I said , ‘ Maria , I am experimenting and when I say ‘ experiment ’ I mean I want to see how it presents itself . |