Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state 's involvement offers crucial protection , since failure to accept a coin or tampering with it in some way , like making a forgery , then is regarded as a crime against the state , and serious penalties including execution have frequently been normal for such activities . |
| 2 | erm How does one in any case fine a motorist who is n't standing by his car or sitting in it ? erm I would , if the question is shall we try it , if that is implied , I would say it 's worth trying in a very moderate way , it may require the police and the police representatives so to speak , the wardens if they 're going to be empowered to do this kind of thing , I think it 's going to force them to become very , very diplomatic and civilized in the way they handle it , but we of course too will have to learn to respond in a civilized manner . |
| 3 | You have the choice of either trying to minimise the effect or going with it and rejoicing in the exotic feel of a semi-desert in your back yard . |
| 4 | But I still prefer him in my side than playing against me . |
| 5 | ‘ So give , ’ Steve husked , obviously still feeling his loss and talking about it not helping one bit . |
| 6 | It was like climbing a waterfall , but there was a warder at the top , clinging to a railing and yelling to us at the top of his voice to hurry — as if we needed such encouragement . |
| 7 | His opponent was clumsily getting to his feet as Fleury snatched a violin from a rack of worm-eaten instruments ( the survivors of an attempt by the Collector to start a symphony orchestra in the cantonment ) , snapped it over his knee and leapt on to the sepoy 's back , at the same time whipping the violin strings tightly round the sepoy 's neck and dragging on them like reins . |
| 8 | Hung Feng-Chan quieted the horse , patting its neck and whispering to it , then brought it across to where Li Yuan was standing . |
| 9 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 10 | Gabriel took to sitting on the cart-tail and waving to them ; it seemed so ungrateful to speed away from their flattery and blessings . |
| 11 | A small herd inhabited a reedbed formed by the overflow from a large pool fed by hot springs , leaving its shelter only after dark and returning to it before light . |
| 12 | He looked around and saw that the third man was now lying over the roof of the light blue car and firing at them with what he took to be an M1 carbine . |
| 13 | Your safety , and your security and my safety and security in life does not depend on how pleasant my ways are and how pleasant my paths are how much I manage to amass , and how I can overcome all the little difficulties and problems and steer clear of the big ones the security and safety of my life , now and in eternity , security is there in the boat and lying with him . |
| 14 | Mrs Paisley brought a message from her husband in prison , condemning the rioting and asking for it to stop . |
| 15 | Partner Ferdinand has had his back to the wall in the last few months , a troublesome disc plaguing his attempts to establish himself last spring and resulting in him coming home early from America . |
| 16 | There is much to be learnt from recognising demands within industry and working on them . |
| 17 | John Yeudall , who 's been involved in the Community for many years as worker , chairman and elected member said " My feelings about it being stripped is how very little building there is for just so much emotion and feeling in it . |
| 18 | Then I thought that if this man succeeded in cutting a hole in the side of the carriage and escaping through it , there would be an obligation on me to go out after him . |
| 19 | Making hats for a living and looking at them all day long has mellowed her taste somewhat . |
| 20 | It is a great blessing to have Julyan and Lenna Lidstone living and working among us . |
| 21 | I 'll believe he loved me just a little at least , thought Fenella , sitting quite still on her horse and looking about her . |
| 22 | Thankfully he landed on it for a moment , moving his body back and forth to keep balance with the stress of the wind and peering about him . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , in the potion laboratory , Mildred was desperately trying to overbalance the jar by climbing up the side and leaning on it . |
| 24 | There was Leningrad , his father in his uniform kneeling by his side and explaining to him how quickly the waters of the Neva flowed , flowed into the Gulf of Finland . |
| 25 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 26 | The cavern began to fill with falling rock , even Froebe 's entire office overhang splitting from the living rock and falling into me inferno below . |
| 27 | Oh , he 's got to get motivated cos if we 're going away we got to save some pennies up and if we commit ourselves then we 've got to save pennies up , it 's no good coming and saying to me you 're going away next week , I shall turn round and say sod you matey we 're not cos we 've got no bloody money . |
| 28 | The controlled force of her emotion when speaking of it had been frightening . |
| 29 | Telephoning the elderly who live alone needs even more care and tact than talking with them in the course of a visit . |
| 30 | ( 1 ) attitudes towards the nature of representation , ( 2 ) behaviour within council groups , ( 3 ) preference for governing the city as a whole or looking after the interests of a ward , ( 1 ) preference for dealing with general policy issues or with individual problems , ( 5 ) preference for specialisms in one aspect of council work or generalizing over them all , and ( 6 ) attitudes towards the involvement of community organisations in the government of the city ( Newton 1976a:114 ) . |