Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crowds appearing to amass them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her hair , red snakes struggling to free themselves from the hairpins , was the only vital thing about her . |
| 4 | When I told G.P. about it much later , he just said , poor frog , he was probably on his knees praying to forget you . |
| 5 | Better-heeled artificers must almost certainly have been master craftsmen employing labour themselves . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The result is that they are bought up by development companies , insurance companies and pension funds looking to maximize their value . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | WHEN is the United Nations going to get its act together in Bosnia ? |
| 10 | It sounded as if there were several animals waiting to launch themselves upon her . |
| 11 | He glanced right and saw another half-dozen Dragoons racing to cut him off from the cart track . |
| 12 | He began making plans to fill Wembley Arena with 12,000 people a night , convinced there were more than enough Kylie fans waiting to see her . |
| 13 | His office says he has kept at least 20 top-flight journalists and analysts cooling their heels waiting to interview him since October . |
| 14 | ( Two clients waiting to see me . ) |
| 15 | For the colleges and polytechnics attempting to implement it the DipHE raised problems of ‘ interlock ’ with other programmes , and transferability to other institutions — with a need for considerable attention to student counselling . |
| 16 | Flying over the Bornholmerstrasse yesterday , I saw a scrum of East Berliners massing to cross its bridge . |
| 17 | Ordinary Koreans wishing to see their country independent , unified and tackling its social and economic problems radically felt betrayed at the deep conservatism that distinguished the occupation . |
| 18 | I 'll maroon you on the rock there at low tide , for the waves rising to take you ! |
| 19 | And she found her eyes drifting to examine his left hand , noting that as usual he was wearing no rings , hating the way hope stirred foolishly for a moment . |
| 20 | Any tutors wishing to present their students with a more or less logical progression from year one to year seven , have to contend with the awkward fact that in the summer term the examination classes are only in attend for their examinations . |
| 21 | Lastly , I consider that , by virtue of the same principles , a member state may , if it wishes , stipulate that vessels wishing to fly its flag must undertake to operate habitually from a port in that country . |
| 22 | Franklin employ their own teacher sales team to give advice and support to schools starting to use their products . |
| 23 | As I 've , I mean divisional guidelines forthrising costing I 've added to the related documents and I 'll produce those because they 're a divisional thing . |
| 24 | The Prussian gunner officer saw another troop of Dragoons threatening to outflank his position . |
| 25 | Left to their own devices , she knew only too well her arms would even now be snaking up round his neck , her lips parting to invite his plundering mouth . |
| 26 | I watched the cars stopping to pay their money at the toll-house and wondered if any of the drivers were tempted to put their foot down on the accelerator and go Zoom-Crash ! down to the bottom of the gorge . |
| 27 | The reason Bart 's has so many supporters campaigning to save it is because its work is superb . |
| 28 | Incredibly , impersonation of this sort to get hold of data is not a criminal offense , in this country there is no law as such which makes it illegal to steal information , and the main piece of legislation , the Data Protection Act contains a massive loophole , it only applies to the holders of information not to third parties trying to get their hands on it . |
| 29 | We used numerous tactics trying to engage their support and tried to enlist the help of the Prime Minister , the Royal Family , the Scottish Office and as Helen Martin said ‘ If we had known the address of the man up above ( God ) we would have wrote to him as well . ’ |
| 30 | I crawled quietly up the slope , the grass sliding under my chest and belly , my legs straining to propel my bulk up and forward . |