Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be a long time before he stopped despising himself for having succumbed to a purely physical attraction , and that towards a woman he despised . |
| 2 | Because that was when I stopped taking it for granted . |
| 3 | Scuffles ensued when the demonstrators tried to break through a police cordon preventing them from marching to the tomb of the unknown soldier . |
| 4 | He could n't stop torturing himself by examining the room 's new look from every angle . |
| 5 | Now he keeps blamin' me for keepin' her clean . |
| 6 | Treatment was continued by the clinical psychologist who had previously been treating W. Whilst at this unit W. displayed violence towards the staff and began injuring herself by picking her skin . |
| 7 | Her trick was to establish during the early part of the evening roughly where the man lived ; then to announce a destination for herself to which he could not suggest accompanying her without seeming over keen . |
| 8 | If she missed his letters for a few days , she would probably stop taking him for granted . |
| 9 | ‘ Suppose the pupils started organizing themselves into writing letters , protest marches — what would happen to the school ? ’ |
| 10 | He blamed it all on business , but could not resist taunting her for expecting him to be at h-er beck and call , while disapproving that he was rich . |
| 11 | Despite her anxiety about his present intentions , Gina could n't resist teasing him by casting appraising eyes over his well-muscled form . |
| 12 | doing it Do you mean drawing it on Using this drawing it ? |
| 13 | But the Welsh , because they have n't won a Major professional event , keep proving themselves by winning Amateur Championships . |
| 14 | Where Buxton 's second-round score , put together in the worst of the weather , was an 81 , McKay had another 80 in which she was left kicking herself for having chipped through the green at the 295-yard 14th on her way to a six . |
| 15 | He was afraid she might see him sticking out and start taking him for granted or make unwomanly advances . |
| 16 | A mere allegation that the goods are his , without any attempt to show how they came on the premises , will not do , for ‘ to allow such a statement to be a justification for entering the soil of another , would be opening too wide a door to parties to attempt righting themselves without resorting to law , and would necessarily tend to breach of the peace . ’ |
| 17 | If you have a policy for housing , or anything else for that matter , how about sharing it with the rest of us , right and until you come up with an alternative policy , do n't you start knocking us for having a policy which we are prepared to debate . |
| 18 | Atherton batted beautifully for 42 but then left kicking himself for slamming a wide ball from Reiffel straight to cover off the back foot . |
| 19 | Kept saying something about building a parade of really modern shops . |
| 20 | It only would have been like The Housemartins watered down if they 'd have kept doing it without believing in the band . |
| 21 | Rather than concentrate the raising of revenue at the production end of the broadcasting process , by selling airtime to advertisers , the Sykes Committee recommended raising it by charging a flat rate annual licence fee to the consumer . |
| 22 | All those people dead and there we were , busy doing nothing except feeling sorry for ourselves . |
| 23 | He was well-known by sight to all the warren , for his fur was entirely grey , with patches of near-white that now caught the moonlight as he sat scratching himself without speaking . |