Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pos pn] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am personally indebted to her for her help in indexing my text book on bookselling . |
| 2 | I remember half-waking and seeing my master bend over me . |
| 3 | I said breathlessly , tucking my pyjama jacket into the bottoms . |
| 4 | The wind had risen , blowing the boat ever faster shorewards , and , as Alan wrestled with the oars , I tried to unfankle the heap of floss and flies , catching my tail fly on the bottom of the boat in the process . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm building my working life around my family , ’ I could imagine them explaining to puzzled spouses . |
| 6 | The society will be staging their spring show at the village hall on April 11th , with a plant show on May 9th . |
| 7 | Explaining her painting strategy in producing within a closely defined genre , Delia says ‘ I do n't do ‘ Spaniels ’ as a type . |
| 8 | He sees considerable scope for the firm widening its client base in the '90s as people inherit houses from their parents and money is available for investment . |
| 9 | Zoe tried to explain , keeping her voice low on account of the boy : she 'd thought Lowell was in love with a Victorian photograph — and that was crazy . |
| 10 | She wished she had a stronger conviction that the Infant of Prague might be any earthly use in keeping her son safe on this terrible machine . |
| 11 | DONNA MULLER gave birth to a boy in a staff lavatory at the stables where she worked after keeping her pregnancy secret for nine months . |
| 12 | The ESRC Data Archive guarantees future access to the material it holds by protecting its information base against technological change . |
| 13 | Sequent Computer Corp confirmed last week reports that it is to move into the multi-processor PC ‘ superserver ’ business , basing its software strategy around Microsoft Corp 's forthcoming NT operating system ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 14 | In the mid-1920s , IG Farben was basing its product development on scientific research , and concentrating on innovative products such as plastics , solvents , insecticides and resins , rather than on bulk chemicals such as chlorine and soda ash , which were ICI 's staples at the beginning . |
| 15 | It also has some promising projects applying its defence technology for civil applications . |
| 16 | Not only that , but he was returning her stare measure for measure . |
| 17 | After gaining her economics degree at Cambridge she had been well able to appreciate some of the problems he faced , and ask pertinent , relevant questions about the business . |
| 18 | Launching its autumn campaign in Edinburgh , the party revealed that the twin themes of independence in Europe and ‘ fighting for Scotland better than Labour ever can or will ’ would form its ‘ springboard to victory ’ . |
| 19 | In January 1991 there were reports that the Japanese government was prepared to discuss opening its rice market to foreign imports , the source of one of the most bitter and protracted of trade disputes with the USA . |
| 20 | An expert on air accidents believes that the aircraft was de-stabilised after opening its cargo door for a low-level drop . |
| 21 | In addition , Rank Travel was consolidating its holiday interest by buying Blue Sky from British Caledonian ( Table 11.1 ) along with the Arrowsmith company , and organizing these under its Wings Holiday label . |
| 22 | He grinned , deriding her patent lack of enthusiasm , and said ruthlessly , ‘ You 'll have to brave it sooner or later . ’ |
| 23 | He then moved to Oxford Polytechnic before launching his army career at Sandhurst . |
| 24 | The last horse , Bean 's own , stood halfway down the ramp , surveying his reception committee with benign , sleepy eyes . |
| 25 | Sanctions can not possibly ‘ work ’ in the time he can allow for maintaining half a million men in combat readiness thousands of miles from home and for keeping his public opinion with him . |
| 26 | The arrival of skiffle in the UK during the mid-'50s also added to blues awareness , Lonnie Donegan even nicking his stage name from New Orleans ' blues giant Lonnie Johnson . |
| 27 | A condition of the Daily Mail prize was that no serving pilot could win it , and so on March 10 , 1919 Jack was demobbed , ending his service career with the rank of Captain , he was now free to pursue this latest flying challenge . |
| 28 | He came back after cracking his knee cap in the England game against New Zealand , two years ago but fell victim to the same injury less than two months ago . |
| 29 | Professor Hoskins , basing his cost-of-living calculation on a range of local price data , not simply cereals , calculated that whereas real wages of labourers and craftsmen fell by around 30 per cent over the second half of the eighteenth century , those of most woollen workers fell by nearer 50 per cent . |
| 30 | Agassiz later became the foremost zoological teacher in the United States , basing his teaching practice on the observation of nature . |