Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education has always been a low government spending priority , with the oligarchy preferring to send their children to private schools and then universities abroad . |
| 2 | And here today 's bandwagon rolling tip , Pershing po poised to fulfil his promise , that 's Paul Johnson in the Racing Post , John de Moreville in the Express Pershing to strike his target and now here is something of which nobody can be proud Gosforth Park South Africa . |
| 3 | Crowds appearing to amass them . |
| 4 | With the economy in the doldrums and the Pound struggling to keep its head above water , it was no time for Terry to splash out a couple of hundred quid beside the seaside . |
| 5 | Stewpid is back at school with his arm in plaster , and he is the big HERO with kids queueing to write their names on his plasterised arm . |
| 6 | Her hair , red snakes struggling to free themselves from the hairpins , was the only vital thing about her . |
| 7 | Or more seriously bring along a book on figure drawing to help you and do n't be afraid to hold a pencil at arm 's length to measure proportions . |
| 8 | When I told G.P. about it much later , he just said , poor frog , he was probably on his knees praying to forget you . |
| 9 | Better-heeled artificers must almost certainly have been master craftsmen employing labour themselves . |
| 10 | Sean Caffrey is the Man who , with the ‘ audacity of despair ’ wanders into J P King 's seedy offices seeking to realise his ambition : ‘ I want to sing . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Not without asking for nominations and holding a Department meeting to discuss it first . ’ |
| 12 | But his chief duty will be as coach to a club looking to overhaul their playing structure ready for the move to top-class new facilities the season after next . |
| 13 | The result is that they are bought up by development companies , insurance companies and pension funds looking to maximize their value . |
| 14 | And I always find it extremely amusing that the government of this country screams about Brussels wanting to centralize everything when they of course , are the most centralizing British government , the present conservatives , that we 've ever known . |
| 15 | HIGH-RIDING Swansea swept into an eighth minute lead against a Chester side looking to continue their recent revival . |
| 16 | Mrs Singh expressed a worry about Balbinder refusing to dress himself and ordering her to get him ready for school when he could do this perfectly well if he wanted to . |
| 17 | Mandeville and Santerre had arrived at Templecombe wanting to make everyone dance to their tune . |
| 18 | It was , said one speaker forgivingly , ‘ better to have him at Lloyds seeking to insure his own cargoes , than at sea seeking cargoes insured by others ’ . |
| 19 | So — in the year in which we 've forced the text-centred discipline that is rock writing to incorporate everything that it has excluded for so long ( the relationship between the star 's body and the fan 's , the voice , the materiality of music ) — maybe it 's time to make criticism grapple with what undoes it , ‘ the uncritical ’ itself . |
| 20 | It would make one regret to lose it and yet I shall think nothing but that loss wanting to complete my happiness . |
| 21 | But is Bigwig going to see it like that ? " |
| 22 | What 's mummy going to give you for your lunch . |
| 23 | Vitor smiled the slow crooked smile which had once had his female fans attempting to push their telephone numbers — sometimes accompanied by intimate items of underwear — into his hand . |
| 24 | If they heard a knock at the door or if they heard shouting and bawling in the street , but there 's nothing they can do what we 're asking for here is and I 'm asking for support is a phone to the people who can not afford one whereas if they hear something they can phone the police , or they can phone the support unit because are two people staying together in this day and age where they can not walk in the streets they 're attacked even in broad daylight going to get their pensions never mind at night-time . |
| 25 | Thirty yards and he could see the shark 's teeth of coral waiting to devour them . |
| 26 | WHEN is the United Nations going to get its act together in Bosnia ? |
| 27 | It sounded as if there were several animals waiting to launch themselves upon her . |
| 28 | Nor was Pat going to say anything further because he was fucking off home as soon as he swallowed what he had lying . |
| 29 | Then one day , when she came out of school there was a car waiting to take her for a screen test , and something magical happened as soon as she stood in front of a camera , and she became an actress , a real actress not a washed-up joke like her mother , and everyone admired her . |
| 30 | When 's Neil going to see his er heavy metal thing ? |