Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is indeed what I had intended suggesting to you , and it disposes of the immediate problem . ’ |
| 2 | A friend wishes to go jogging with you . |
| 3 | On a normal day at home , he is given his breakfast , which he may or may not eat depending on his mood and Trish then rides him , unless she is competing in the evening , when she delays it until later . |
| 4 | At night he was heard weeping in his miserable hut . |
| 5 | A force that comes and goes depending on your motion . |
| 6 | These groups , like all élites , have no previous perception of themselves as belonging to the troublesome classes , and it does not do for the police to remind them that the application of control can be redirected depending on who is defining the ‘ illegalities ’ . |
| 7 | With experience the amount of fuel carried could obviously be adjusted depending on what length of trip you 're doing . |
| 8 | The man swung round , fear flashing in his eyes . |
| 9 | It had been Campion Price , her father , who , disappointed that his firstborn had not been the male he 'd intended naming after his own father , had insisted she bore the feminine version of that name — Georgina . |
| 10 | Finally , like 'Lash 's waist-line , the PD File will be expanding and contracting depending on what there is to put in it ! |
| 11 | She almost danced away , out of the door and into the sunlight , blithely leaving her horse to her brother whether he had intended seeing to it or not . |
| 12 | As the Scots returned to their hotel to shower , have breakfast , pack , then make the tortuous/scenic ( delete depending on your viewpoint ) four hour bus trip to Nadi — on a vehicle bearing the legend ‘ Adventure and Endless Holidays , ’ partially accurate , one suspects — a familiar figure ambled into the foyer . |
| 13 | Pupils in resource centre provision usually have the ordinary classroom as their home base , with the responsibility for what they are taught resting with their classroom teacher . |
| 14 | ‘ Chris , that 's just one of the many strokes that Martinez has pulled in his time ; and he still goes laughing on his way to the bank with his twenty-five per cent commission . |
| 15 | They admitted interfering with her gold teeth , but denied she was kept prisoner , made to sleep on the floor with only two sheets and kept without food . |
| 16 | She killed smiling , and there were few who , having seen her kill , wanted even to risk dying at her hands . |
| 17 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , the jacket has a major drawback should you want to go climbing in it . |
| 19 | The arrangement ended on 1 January when the Soviet Union ceased trading with its former allies on a convertible rouble basis . |
| 20 | HONG KONG won British backing yesterday for a plan to continue trading from its stockpile of ivory , even if a world-wide ban is agreed by Cites , the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species . |
| 21 | You 're going to look too Posh to go walking with me . |
| 22 | that you may consider using for your essay ? |
| 23 | Nigel had begun to hate the Scots since being starved and caught flashing by them , but Dr Lange was different . |
| 24 | But you must really enjoy singing to yourself , you must find that something |
| 25 | We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on him . |
| 26 | The red light on the phone console stopped flashing as whoever sought his attention tired of waiting . |
| 27 | It was ironic , especially as it was he who was causing her world to come crashing about her head . |
| 28 | I stopped eating on my return from the summer camp mentioned earlier . |
| 29 | to come tumbling around him . |
| 30 | Mistakes did n't matter so much , but now — well , it 's for real , is n't it , and maybe lives depending on me . |