Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we can ask is if there 's a councillor for Allenton listening to us , if they could get in touch and we 'll put them in touch with you and see if we can start it all over again Henry . |
| 2 | The second goal disappointed me because we talked about Lineker getting behind it . |
| 3 | The second goal disappointed me because we 'd talked about Lineker getting behind us , let Gary Lineker have the ball in front and then he 's not so dangerous obviously ; that 's his strength , over the top , bump it in the net . |
| 4 | Riven rubbed his sword hilt with a white thumb , thinking for a second of Madra pressing against him . |
| 5 | I tramped through the ruins of Tughlukabad trying in my mind to fill the deserted barracks with Turkish mameluks and Persian cavalry officers . |
| 6 | But then , dear Lizzie , for all the money — and it was reputed to be in millions — that her late husband had left her , had never known how to dress ; nor did any of the tribe of Braithwaites sitting around her , who had clearly chosen whatever had turned out to be the most expensive and put it on their large , angular bodies just anyhow . |
| 7 | He thought of Valerie waiting for him . |
| 8 | In fact , I did n't know until recent years that it was a person at Philips Records who in fact mentioned DeFries to David , and when he did meet DeFries , Angela was very much in favour of David moving from me to him . |
| 9 | He replayed several times a shot of Tammuz pawing at his face , messing with his hair ; anxious gestures . |
| 10 | She saw more of England driving with him in his car , or walking through cities while he attended to business , then she ever had before . |
| 11 | Fujitsu Ltd has a new version of MicroCadam running on its SuperSparc Fujitsu S family machines which it buys OEM from Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 12 | Worse , I could see clearly the image of Mala clinging to him within the circle of the powerful golden arm . |
| 13 | Let's go back to the Greek idea of Jesus entering into our sinfulness and weakness . |
| 14 | He claimed that his life had been a misery since he sold the recording of Di talking to her friend James Gilbey . |
| 15 | Contradictory stories tell of Vincent coming into his own as a pacifier , quelling an uprising of vengeance-bent miners by persuading them that violence only begets violence . |
| 16 | After all , they were in the country , but with the extra responsibilities of Willie living with him … |
| 17 | She was aware of Darren shivering beside her . |
| 18 | We will know for ourselves the experience of God speaking through his written revelation to us . |
| 19 | They rebuilt the temple of God according to its original design and reinforced it . |
| 20 | Seated where he is , Rhys Williams knows one false move could mean the might of God descending on him at any moment . |
| 21 | Without the light of the Gospel , it would never be seen in its true depths , but would remain a coloured stone , beautiful , but not bright with a message of God shining within it . |
| 22 | Sepulveda justified the enslavement of the Indians on the grounds that they were the natural slaves mentioned in Book I of Aristotle 's Politics ; the Dominican Friar Las Casas admitted the frailty of the Indians but argued that they were all the more children of God owing to their very lack of capacity and skill , which still implies a sort of sub-humanity but of a different kind . |
| 23 | In these verses , and I could have easily quadrupled them , we are presented with the idea of Christ dying for us . |
| 24 | Gramsci 's reading of Marx according to which " there does not exist an abstract fixed immutable human nature ; … human nature is the totality of historically determined social relations " is in line with this style of thinking ; so also is Rousseau 's earlier , portentous but shocking prediction that , because of human avarice , men would have to be " forced to be free " . |
| 25 | It was also possible to classify the States of Europe according to their ability to wage war , whether on their own or with the help of subsidies and other encouragements from their more powerful neighbours . |
| 26 | Snooping by scanner is entirely different from the pictures of the Duchess of York cavorting with her ‘ financial adviser ’ . |
| 27 | Here Aphrodite is shown with her hand on Priapus ( god of fruitfulness ) , and she has a tiny figure of Eros sitting below her feet . |
| 28 | in the course of his dissenting judgment in the Court of Appeal , that the payment by Woolwich of the principal sums demanded and the acceptance of these sums by the revenue created , having regard to the terms of Woolwich 's letters of 12 June and 15 September 1986 , an implied agreement that the revenue would repay the sums in question in the event of Woolwich succeeding in its action for judicial review . |
| 29 | The programme was of limited value to the people of Bangladesh owing to its failing to be able to cope with a poor infrastructure and a large population . |
| 30 | Rachaela dreamed of Adamus bending over her , his hair a black cowl . |