Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is n't much loving in any of your kindnesses , Jane , ’ the middle-aged hero of John Osborne 's Inadmissible Evidence ( 1965 ) complains to his daughter in a long , unanswered diatribe against the younger generation — a new race of adolescents capable , for the first time , of subduing the earth around them and thinking nothing of it : ‘ not much kindness , not even cruelty , really , in any of you . ’ |
| 2 | But when you 've got people stood behind a desk and serving you and doing nothing but serving you as you come . |
| 3 | Bair unflinchingly demonstrates the extent to which de Beauvoir was obsessed by Sartre , unwilling and unable to free herself of him and sacrificing everything to him , including other women . |
| 4 | Over the months Jay found she liked being around Lucy , enjoyed desiring her and doing nothing about it . |
| 5 | He lay there , listening to the noises in the street , quite tranquilly ; not caring much how the time went , but watching it and watching everything about him with observing eyes ( 2 ) . |
| 6 | The second is that it allows you to make a fast flank attack on the end of the enemy 's line with the possibility of rolling along it and taking lots of his troops in the flanks . |