Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on condition no one ever reminding them they were actually living there . |
| 2 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 3 | I suppose people have got used to bringing me their queries , to some extent , " said Richard , going into their cabin to take off his black shoes and put on a pair of red leather slippers , which , like all his other clothes , never seemed to wear out . |
| 4 | Ellen had once assured me that I was only happy because I did not think too deeply , and probably she was right , but it is still that shallow contentment which makes people bring me their troubles just as the senator was now bringing me his two children . |
| 5 | But in touching them I tried to bless them , in a spirit of reverence . |
| 6 | Only last Sunday the Royal Liver League champions scored an impressive 3–15 against Offaly to keep their league hopes alive , while at the same time reminding everyone they are in no mood to relinquish their crown . |
| 7 | They were very short muzzle things , but them old things there like that , they were jumping when you were firing them you know . |
| 8 | Yeah you see but when I was seeing them one after the other tens and twenties you do n't see the dross you see |
| 9 | Just seeing me there would trigger thief responses of someone like Gharr . |
| 10 | As I say all these poem 's are very dense and erm if I get round to , to completing them they 'll probably have at least another verse , certainly extra words and rhymes , that open it out and make it a bit more plausible Ours in the night , no I 've got it wrong , sorry , I 've moved on and I should n't 've done |
| 11 | It was admitted that occasionally the good were afflicted too , and that in these cases God was probably testing their faith , or even possibly allowing them their purgatory on earth , but on the whole the Church found it more satisfactory to believe that madness was punitive and well-deserved . |
| 12 | Lines were often cut by shell fire , and in repairing them it was not easy to know whether one was joining one 's own line or one of the enemy 's . |
| 13 | As the organist began the introduction , the lights dimmed to add ‘ mood ’ , allowing me my first sight of the sparse audience . |
| 14 | These were the only weapons she had had against an apparently uncaring world , and through using them she retained a precarious sense of identity and integrity . |
| 15 | She had intended using them herself . |
| 16 | Within days of helping me you would be transferred back to the hospital wing of Vladimir , within a few months you would be home … think on it . |
| 17 | As you would hunt him to the end , God helping me I 'll hunt you , and see you into your grave before ever you lay hand on his . ’ |
| 18 | No it does n't annoy me , it 's beyond annoying me it pisses me off . |
| 19 | Oh se , er red , she wo n't be able to eat erm , eating them I want another one . |
| 20 | But ordinary plant and animal varieties , and the processes for producing them which have not involved a significant technological input in their production , are not patentable . |
| 21 | The acquisition of grave-clothes did not need to wait until death , and many a young bride-to-be , especially in the more remote country areas , included such items in their trousseaus , either buying them ready-made from one of the known outlets , or having them made by a local seamstress , or producing them herself . |
| 22 | ’ And from , or nearly from , the outset there is the hint of a three-cornered relationship in which the future reader of the as yet unwritten Possessed joins novelist and narrator in a conspiracy to uphold the truth of the fiction : ‘ Altogether , when I describe conversations , even tête-à-tête conversations between two people — do n't worry : either I have hard facts , or perhaps I am inventing them myself — but in any case rest assured that everything is true . ’ |
| 23 | They will not win you any prizes but , if you can manage to knit just one of them , you will be helping someone who really needs your help . |
| 24 | A similar gender difference was apparent in the time spent helping someone who lived in a separate household ; here 32 per cent of women but only 22 per cent of men spent ten hours or more each week on care-giving ( Green , 1988 , p. 21 ) . |
| 25 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 26 | By ‘ personal care ’ I mean nursing someone who can not fully look after themselves and/or performing domestic tasks which they are unable to undertake . |
| 27 | This is but one way of reminding ourselves what an extraordinarily good job they did of the ‘ conceptual framework ’ , as they called it . |
| 28 | Perhaps it is worth reminding ourselves what this Bill does . |
| 29 | Traditionally , the law has said that allowing someone who is terminally ill to die is lawful , but bringing about his or her death is unlawful , even if he or she consents or requests it . |
| 30 | So it is a question of not allowing someone who commits a summary offence to ‘ escape liability ’ for an indictable offence . |