Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These indications of the importance of small firm production and the extent of subcontracting make it vital to recognize the place of a differentiated structure of production in assessing the causes of Japan 's rapid economic growth . |
| 2 | On the pitch they are struggling to preserve their Premier Division status with the worse defensive record among the top clubs while boardroom battles continue to drive a wedge between club and supporters . |
| 3 | ‘ Because nobody 's goin' to treat me as kind as you do . ’ |
| 4 | The creation of the ocean of consumer debt now helping to float our prosperity , is a marvel equal to what Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to achieve with perestroika . |
| 5 | We goin' pick them like they ripe avocados . ’ |
| 6 | Your mental arithmetic 's getting very good , by the way , I mean , at one stage , when you first started , you 'd be using using your calculator for all this , would n't you ? |
| 7 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 8 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 9 | The Sunderland contingent in a 40,000 crowd stayed in their places long after the finish demanding to see their heroes . |
| 10 | We were eventually released and returned to find some of the crew busily repairing the mainsail on the dock , while the rest , with Tandri and the officers , were being bullied by lesser officials who were nosing around the hold and demanding to see their personal possessions . |
| 11 | Rolled in about five minutes ago demanding to see you . |
| 12 | ‘ Another thing your mother and I did , ’ Diana went on , obviously enjoying defying her hostess , ‘ was to hang all the chamber pots outside the third floor windows , just as Queen Mary arrived for her stay . |
| 13 | It is not two years since a rag-tag group of about 200 men , few of them daring to wear their Soviet uniforms , gathered in the Kiev building that housed a short-lived nationalist government in 1917–18 , to found the Ukrainian Officers Union . |
| 14 | He pulled away , but Ruth 's hand closed desperately , not daring to lose him again . |
| 15 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 16 | Monism , with its rejection of the form-meaning dichotomy , was a tenet of the New Critics , who rejected the idea that a poem conveys a message , preferring to see it as an autonomous verbal artefact . |
| 17 | I think you 're sort of drawing drawing their attention to the public concern over that sort of phrase . |
| 18 | James Halden , of course , had no idea that he was helping to support his own daughter . |
| 19 | More members are needed for this class which is organised in conjunction with the Teachers ' Training Course and is helping to support it . |
| 20 | Fainting derbies are planned , with owners competing to see whose goat can faint fastest — premium fainters spend most of their lives horizontal . |
| 21 | The Montenegrin government endorsed the initiative , but on Jan. 24 Macedonia rejected Serbian overtures , preferring to continue its efforts to gain recognized independent statehood . |
| 22 | Aurangzeb spent as little time as possible in the city , preferring to continue his campaigns from Aurangabad , his own foundation in the Deccan . |
| 23 | Now you can take another positive step in helping to preserve our planet by using new mercury free long life alkaline batteries from UCAR … which last much longer than the ordinary types . |
| 24 | ‘ I was phoning to thank you for getting me out of police headquarters . ’ |
| 25 | Freud ignored the more likely ‘ social ’ hypothesis for feminine dissatisfaction , preferring to ascribe it to a biologically based female nature . |
| 26 | ‘ No-one 's goin' to search me , it ai n't decent , I 'm a respectable girl and nor ai n't I a thief — oh ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We 're really goin' to miss you both , we really are … . ’ |
| 28 | Her boyfriend has been helping comfort her grieving family in Gloucester . |
| 29 | When I am so self-centred that I would not dream of asking the Spirit for his strength , preferring to go my own way , I am encouraged to recall that ‘ God is at work in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure ’ ( Phil . |
| 30 | They go to amusement arcades , and start a poetry magazine , and buy pornographic books , and release long streamers of lavatory paper from the top of the Pan-Am building to see whose will be carried further by the wind as it falls . |