Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [coord] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not his spirit that 's doing it , it is the same person that the disciples spoke to when they walked the streets of Palestine , it is the same person that went around healing the sick , it is the same person that was born in the , in the manger at Bethlehem , he is now , after having died , been raised again by the power of the trying God had , he is now ascended back into heaven , in glorified form , and he is there interceding , representing you and me before his father there in heaven . |
| 2 | On one occasion , to our eternal delight , he addressed a cavorting puppy , entangling itself and him in its lead , ‘ Oh , be human , dog , do ! ’ |
| 3 | A body known as the G10 Commission had the authority to decide , either ex officio or on application by a person believing himself or herself to be under surveillance , ‘ on both the legality of and the necessity for the [ surveillance ] measures ’ . |
| 4 | Which type of support a young person receives should be determined entirely by the needs of that person rather than by slotting her or him into inflexible institutional alternatives . |
| 5 | Deconstruction marginalises the author , or seeks to do away with the author altogether , replacing him or her with what Foucault called the ‘ author-fiction ’ , that is , a culturally and historically determined role over which the individual writer has no control . |
| 6 | Er I have n't realized any any feelings of erm you know er sadness over selling it or anything like that . |
| 7 | See if I was fetching anything or anything like that Oh we had an awfu we we had a big stock er big stock you know . |
| 8 | I can find no other principles for distinguishing You and Thou in the Sonnets : Shakespeare can use either without implying greater or lesser formality . |
| 9 | Your understanding of the earth 's plight is greening everything and everyone around you . |
| 10 | I know , I mean er I mean yeah I 've got used to her sort of like criticizing everything and everyone in sight cos I mean that 's all she ever does is to criticize and complain . |
| 11 | In other words , the designer was looking at the effect of the tucking when knitting in one colour , rather than concerning her or himself with the effect when striped . |
| 12 | They are , getting lots and lots of people to do it |
| 13 | But the East Germans , deaf to all advice , are lashing out in fury and bitterness , blaming everyone but themselves for their predicament . |
| 14 | Validation of the suffering individual , treating him or her with kindness , professional respect and dignity , being open and honest , separating the awareness of the disease from the understanding of the suffering human being , following the distorted reasoning and disturbed actions and accepting that they appeared to the sufferer to be most appropriate at the time they were committed . |
| 15 | Apart from an explanation of the reason for the survey , how he or she came to be selected , a guarantee of anonymity , etc. , each question must maintain the respondent 's cooperation by treating him or her with courtesy and gratitude — a few ‘ pleases ’ and a ‘ thank you ’ are essential . |
| 16 | It replaced the Board of Education with a Ministry of Education , and gave the Minister at the head of this a creative rather than a merely controlling function , charging him or her with promoting education in England and Wales . |
| 17 | At the same time , however , the child 's status as a child is perhaps more tightly defined through employment legislation , the raising of the school-leaving age ( thus depriving the child of an independent source of income as well as retaining him or her within an institutionalized system of control ) , and the growth of a market geared to particular and distinctive images of childhood and adolescence . |
| 18 | The earlier cases do not make any reference to the possibility of arresting someone for the sole purpose of questioning him or her with a view to obtaining a confession . |
| 19 | This proves the promoter 's confidence that every ticket will be sold , committing him or her to paying the artist a fee as if the event is a sell-out , however many people actually attend the gig . |
| 20 | PREMIER John Major and Chancellor Norman Lamont were fighting for their political lives last night — and blaming anyone but themselves for the mess . |
| 21 | If the terms survive the drafting process the resultant consent order will be not only clear , but specific and any party binding him or herself to it will know precisely what has been accepted and what is the commitment . |
| 22 | Fires set to control weeds on degraded pastures also spread , particularly to selectively logged areas as in Para , Brazil , as the gaps left have tracks connecting them and plenty of fuel : such have had devastating effects in Borneo during seasonal droughts ( see section 2.2.2 ) . |
| 23 | The Substitute had refused the chair offered to him , choosing instead to wander about the room , taking brief puffs on his cigar and regarding everything and everyone with an amused detachment that gave the impression of his being mildly surprised but pleased at having to perform the office of Public Prosecutor . |
| 24 | Then other people could n't get enough again you see , so if they were giving you er points well naturally you had the sweets to give them , you 're not diddling anybody or anything like that . |
| 25 | If you do n't fancy knitting the entire motifs in lurex , then try knitting it or them in a plain colour and combine a fine lurex thread with the background colour . |
| 26 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 27 | If the child resists this to the extent of crying and screaming , the parent can desensitize the child by occasionally placing him or her in the high-chair during the day to play with a favourite toy . |
| 28 | where it makes sense and is practicable , the pupil may be moved up or down a key stage for the subject in question by placing him or her in a teaching group in which the majority of pupils are older or younger … |
| 29 | The person who is terrified of storms , while restraining him or herself from hiding in the hall cupboard , will still give off an aura of anxiety to a child who will then come automatically to associate fear with the sound of thunder . |
| 30 | I said well I think she realized it came to so he 's definitely booked the high court so she 's , she 's done nothing about changing him or anything like that . |