Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was around the time he first started seeing me as more than just an employee . |
| 2 | The extraordinary atmosphere was keeping me so sky-high that my private feelings for John seemed to have detached themselves and slipped out of reach . |
| 3 | So it is not surprising that his interest developed from driving them very fast and very skilfully to the point where he now heads a business specialising in accident repairs and coachbuilding with a turnover in the region of £7.5 million . |
| 4 | What , if , after taking out my kidney and pronouncing me as clear as could be seen , a dreaded secondary was to occur ? |
| 5 | Alyssia glanced up at him , disliking him even more than she would have imagined possible . |
| 6 | She climbed inside , disliking him as much as she ever had . |
| 7 | I 'm sure you ca n't be keeping her so busy that she ca n't spare me an hour or so . ’ |
| 8 | We both like driving it so much that we end up using it all the time , ’ says the Stirlingshire chiropodist . |
| 9 | Building self-esteem is about appreciating strengths and developing them as much as it is about gaining an understanding of weaknesses . |
| 10 | Modern Boy included real science , with pictures showing how powerful ants were by imagining them as big as horses , in which case they could move around carrying skyscrapers . |
| 11 | The actual experience was n't frightening me so much as what I 'd been told . |
| 12 | No , she would not want to change that … only to have it go on , with Tyler wanting her as much as she wanted him . |
| 13 | No and he 'll get more used to it , I thought tonight was I was I pushing it too far when he started |
| 14 | I 'm helping you as much as I can . |
| 15 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 16 | But his questions were at once crucifying me as much as I knew they were of help . |
| 17 | It pulls drug-takers into a world of filthy needles , poisoned doses and pushers bent upon selling them more addictive and dangerous fixes . |
| 18 | The swords met again in another violent discharge of magic and , at the same time , Lio ! rt brought his other hand down against Rincewind 's head , jarring him so hard that one foot jerked out of its ring and flailed desperately . |
| 19 | Patrick is still having difficulties with girls : the married man keeps going to bed with them , not liking it very much and not liking the distress it brings to a wife whom he does like and who is carefully crafted to be likeable . |
| 20 | It sweeps southward from the Pacific coast of Central America , diverting the cold , nutrient-rich Humboldt Current away from the South American mainland , or sometimes forcing it as much as 50 m beneath the waves . |
| 21 | Deputies from Estonia 's Russian minority boycotted the vote on the new law , describing it as discriminatory and claiming that it violated the constitution of Soviet Estonia , although Estonian nationalist deputies countered that that document had ceased to be valid since the March 30 declaration of a transition to independence [ see pp. 37322 ; 37461-62 ] . |
| 22 | Leapor here treats the task of cleaning it as normal and manageable . |
| 23 | Despite the large increase in the private sector , which has no single administrative body to which all private homes belong , only 12 homes refused to participate in the 1990 census , rendering it most unlikely that the changes in both demography and dependency in any sector are a result of response bias . |
| 24 | Small incidents may be over-reacted to in the strong anticipation of trouble , rendering it more likely that confrontation will actually occur . |
| 25 | Although Aquino insisted that the plan had the support of at least 15 members of the 23-strong Senate , the Senate President and key opponent of a continued US presence , Jovito Salonga , remained suspicious of the plan , characterizing it as vague and ill-defined and insisting that all combat troops had to be withdrawn within one year . |
| 26 | Alternate legs , kicking them as high as possible . |
| 27 | Skip , crossing over legs in front and kicking them as high as possible to either side . |
| 28 | you 're getting them as young as eleven and twelve and , they 're trying these drugs . |
| 29 | Rohmer swung downwards , seized Gilbert and dragged him to his feet , holding him as close as a lovers ' embrace . |
| 30 | He was ruthless , holding her so close that she could hardly breathe , and his kiss was devastating . |