Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [v-ing] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 2 | An enormous amount of skill , equipment , patience , money and sheer luck goes into the breeding of new varieties , and if it has become customary to have to be seen to be introducing six , eight , ten , a dozen or whatever new varieties every year in order to be regarded as one of the top flight nurseries , then that is what they have to do — and who can blame them for wanting to recoup their investment by selling all they can ? |
| 3 | Yet already you have accused me of trying to endanger your mother 's life through risky water sports . |
| 4 | And , if you 're travelling solo , no one 's going to compensate you for having to change your plans at the last minute . |
| 5 | I am grateful to you for agreeing to ensure my interest is expressed to the relevant Appointments Committee . |
| 6 | Try coping with a party of underprivileged schoolchildren from a housing estate in Manchester with a near-hysterical social worker , a ghetto blaster and some crisp bags to sniff glue , two glum shaven-headed squaddies with flatulence , and a computer programmer from Maidstone who wants to tell you about why his promotion fell through , and then with one eye twitching , accuses you of having stolen his processed cheese . |
| 7 | Marx claimed that bureaucrats typically lacked initiative and imagination , though this did not prevent them from trying to expand their powers and privileges . |
| 8 | It has the advantage for believers of saving them from having to invent their own personal neurosis , and they gain from the social nature of religion rather than the purely private character of a personal neurosis . |
| 9 | Such risk-avoiding moves did not , however , stop them from continuing to deepen their involvement in the economy by other means . |
| 10 | Mr Jones is well known in many parishes of the diocese , as he has been visiting them in helping to organise their planned giving schemes . |
| 11 | Thinking of Bonanza got me on trying to figure his reaction if Vecchi got hooked for the Mahoney killing . |
| 12 | Duncan and Myeloski sat on his right side , near the bedhead so that he could see them without having to turn his head . |
| 13 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |
| 14 | However , she never forgave him for failing to fulfil her expectations later . |
| 15 | Leopold went on to point out the obvious flaws in Wolfgang 's proposal to get an unknown 16-year-old singer accepted in Italy — the graveyard of many an aspiring career — and to accuse him of having betrayed his father 's trust . |
| 16 | Although the speech was praised by white politicians and some black leaders , several radical blacks criticized the mayor , accusing him of having betrayed his black constituents . |
| 17 | He managed to free himself only when an ambulance team talked him into trying to wiggle his fingers . |
| 18 | Admittedly , dealing with a woman as dominating as Catherine de Medici and a family as powerful as the Guises , which all three had to do , would have put strains on personalities far stronger than Francis II , Charles IX and Henri III ; but the fact remains that while , unlike Mary , they did not show indifference to their kingdom , they were exactly like her in failing to assert their control of it . |
| 19 | In a similar position would be a street trader , who regularly deals with a certain wholesaler and who could only gain credit from him by guaranteeing to purchase his goods . |
| 20 | What was even more satisfying was knowing that she had given him that same lesson , not once but twice , this morning when she 'd stunned him by agreeing to see his grandmother on her own time , and last night , when she 'd turned away his advances , and never mind all that pretence about his not being interested . |
| 21 | He teased her by trying to feed her chocolate profiteroles . |
| 22 | But because she had not felt ready to go to bed with him he had punished her by trying to destroy her self-confidence . |
| 23 | It is disappointing that so few teachers thought it worth attending to express their views either on the resolutions put forward or to raise other matters . |
| 24 | When parents criticize or disapprove of what their children do ( when unacceptable ) , the fact that their offspring love and respect them puts them on the same side as their parents ; it means that they will take what is being said seriously , and will emulate them by beginning to criticize their bad behaviour themselves ! |
| 25 | Judges were as irremovable in the colonies as in England , but colonial assemblies could apply pressure to them by declining to vote their annual salaries . |
| 26 | ‘ Twinky ’ is now in his second season with us after failing to make his mark in Sunday football . |