Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … we were both pulling in opposite directions , and I felt Brian was siding with his mother rather than standing up for me or remaining in the middle . |
| 2 | The client for whom the firm is acting should be clearly identified and care should be taken to ensure that third parties do not form the impression that the firm is advising them or acting for them when this is not the case . |
| 3 | The client for whom the firm is acting should be clearly identified and care should be taken to ensure that third parties do not form the impression that the firm is advising them or acting for them when this is not the case . |
| 4 | Classes are fine when you 're teaching them or learning in them , very long and boring when you 're just an observer . |
| 5 | Try to recognize your needs , and try to spend time fulfilling them or asking for them . |
| 6 | Er then election day we were out all day with , with a driver of a car getting people out and for them or going through the motions . |
| 7 | effect so erm whether that means actually working directly for them or working for a company who specializes in erm the management of historic erm buildings or environments or areas . |
| 8 | Small peasant farmers can not compete with capitalist concerns , with the result that they often lose their land to them and end up working for them or migrating to the towns in search of wage labour . |
| 9 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 10 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 11 | Others are the periods of inevitable stress and anxiety which although varying in degree and pleasurability/sadness do surround incidents like changing school , job or house ; getting married or divorced ; child bearing , and death of loved ones . |
| 12 | It 's like we 're sort of living here together — you know , sort of like we 're married or summat and living in a proper house of our own and all that . |
| 13 | Anyway I 'll , I 'll just finish er telling you this , so Robert 's then sitting back smug with himself and looking at me as if to say what do you think about then , and I 'm thinking I 've heard these words before , where have I heard these words before |
| 14 | In the wake of his early film success , he rejected the idea of uprooting himself and moving to America as he wanted to work in theatre as well as films . |
| 15 | It should fulfil the double function of protecting himself and appealing to Lorton . |
| 16 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 17 | ‘ B is for Bell , ’ ' Paul said quietly , nodding to himself and staring at the rusting device . |
| 18 | The baby had been endeavouring with grim determination to haul himself from the floor on to Alexandra 's knee , gripping handfuls of her skirts to assist himself and heaving with astonishing strength . |
| 19 | Palin never says this himself but talking to him and reading through previous interviews , one thing is striking . |
| 20 | A man was meant to be doubtful about himself but undoubting about the truth . |
| 21 | In we saw the Health Authority choosing not to purchase services directly from the N H S for their but purchasing from a voluntary stroke private , privately motivated organization . |
| 22 | This last category included five groups associated with Mencap Homes Foundation projects which while benefiting from CMHT support were part of a wider supportive structure , but they also included four other groups which were primarily assisted by the teams . |
| 23 | Thus a government which while adhering to the rule of law narrowly defined , flouted all or most of the practices generally thought to be covered by the rule of law broadly defined would also give rise to doubts about its legitimacy . |
| 24 | It keeps the judge himself while trying under trial … |
| 25 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 26 | It 's hard to enjoy himself while fearing for their lives . |
| 27 | It 's hard to enjoy himself while fearing for their lives . |
| 28 | But the law has never set out to protect a subject who condemns himself whilst acting of his own free will . |
| 29 | The same issue featured Bradley Martin — as Hopkins tended to byline himself when writing on drugs — noting the News of the World 's ‘ sensational splurge on drugs and the pop world ’ , the harmful effect the attack had had on Nuttall 's work as a teacher , and Miles 's self-proclaimed lack of enthusiasm for LSD . |
| 30 | Thus he persuaded himself when writing to Theo , but not when he was face to face with a spitting hell-cat who abused him vilely , telling him to stop messing about with his stupid painting , scraping and altering it until her nerves were in shreds . |