Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prester was believed to have written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus , enumerating the wonders of his kingdom , and affirming that he ruled over the three Indies and over seventy kings , and that twenty bishops , twelve archbishops and a patriarch acknowledged his authority . |
| 2 | As the hon. Member for Livingston can promise his hon. Friends nothing about money , he could not prevent that from happening if he returned to the old system . |
| 3 | The problem there I would suggest is the timescale between the things happening and it getting to the regulator and being digested . |
| 4 | I would suggest is the timescale between these things happening and it getting to the regulator and being digested . |
| 5 | At least , out here , I have — I admit this with shame — I have delivered an extended breech with the nurse giving chloroform at one end and praying and me delivering at the other end and swearing , and the baby lived , the mother lived , and everything was all right . |
| 6 | He was still praying when he got in the water . |
| 7 | And the things is , they always laugh , they 're always laughing when they get on the train |
| 8 | ‘ A lot of people fell around the place laughing when they heard about the middle-aged poet bit , ’ he says . |
| 9 | As always , his knack of disarming was successful , and she was even laughing as they went into the foyer of the Tudor Queen where Sam and Anna awaited them . |
| 10 | She could hear her three- year-old son Rufus laughing as he played on the swings nearby . |
| 11 | ‘ I knew something was happening as I got to the hospital steps . |
| 12 | Seagram 's victory in the 1991 Grand National was an extraordinary coincidence occurring as it did in the final year of the company 's sponsorship of the race . |
| 13 | ‘ Who was driving when it went past the pub ? ’ |
| 14 | I could n't help noticing as I walked up the path . |
| 15 | The corporation was sustaining appalling production losses and Finniston wrote to each of the trade unions suggesting that they meet on the neutral territory of a Heathrow hotel . |
| 16 | The letter was dated almost a week previously , and as Merrill read it she realised with dismay that Richard was already in the area and was suggesting that they meet in the lounge of Frobishers ' at seven o'clock on Saturday — this evening . |
| 17 | The two men picked their way along the line with the aid of a torch , but before they reached the bridge the Sergeant switched it off suggesting that they tread on the wooden sleepers and as softly as possible . |
| 18 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 19 | There would have been no reprieve had I deposited my CFI over the side and I suppose that could have happened , I was to learn many years later , however , most of the formation complained that I steered a very erratic course , and I thought it was the CFI touching the control column in his cockpit , and with his feet ( suggesting that I move to the right or the left ) . |
| 20 | Caffeine abolishes the apparent cooperativity of InsP 3 -induced calcium release , suggesting that it interferes with the event that couples the binding of InsP 3 to subsequent channel opening . |
| 21 | There has been wide disagreement among historians concerning the chronology of population recovery , some suggesting that it started before the end of the fourteenth century , others favouring dates around 1430 and others again preferring the early sixteenth century ( 59 ; 75 , p.15 ; 99 , p.269 ) . |
| 22 | Some of his little ways had indeed been quite surprising in the past , seeing that they ranged from the quartering of badgers , rescued from a baiting , in her coal-shed to the introduction of separate limbs and even of whole orphans for dissection when they were in good supply towards the end of winter ; but she had grown used to them little by little . |
| 23 | Validation of the suffering individual , treating him or her with kindness , professional respect and dignity , being open and honest , separating the awareness of the disease from the understanding of the suffering human being , following the distorted reasoning and disturbed actions and accepting that they appeared to the sufferer to be most appropriate at the time they were committed . |
| 24 | I was so sure I was drowning that I forgot about the race and screamed out , " Father ! |
| 25 | Younger first time buyers would find such a scheme an unnecessary burden since , presuming that they retired at the standard age , they would have to continue paying their mortgage for 30 or 40 years before the pension plan matured to pay it off . |
| 26 | There is a particularly fine example in the last pas de deux of La Fille Mal Gardée where Lise and Colas weave themselves into an embrace which is so tender , gentle and loving that it arrives at the end of a phrase as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 27 | Some of these should often be preserved ; use intelligent discretion , remembering that they belong to the client . |
| 28 | She glanced at it uneasily , remembering that it ran past the witch 's cottage . |
| 29 | She had to find her own way to the bathroom and was pleased with herself for so quickly remembering that it lay at the end of the passage . |
| 30 | Yes of course yeah , but the , you know , we , we have to , I have to make a report and I have to recommend so I 'm recommending that we forget about the three-way stuff . |