Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I offered my thanks to the interviewer for seeing me and shook his/her hand at the end . |
| 2 | It has to respond to the emerging consciousness of the black community , gay people , feminists by marginalising them and delegitimating their claims . |
| 3 | He was fourteen years old , intelligent , forceful , capable of listening attentively to his ministers and then overruling them and going his own way , capable , even , or so they said , of arguing a case strenuously and sensibly against the king himself in Westminster , though he seldom won his way there ; but he was still a boy , unpractised , with little experience yet of living . |
| 4 | We will be working alongside the base staff , encouraging them and assisting them in their work with local churches , ministering to the homeless in Hyderabad and working among a gypsy group in the country . |
| 5 | Chambers , for his part , had given his endorsement in the book : ‘ During the case Nixon and his family were at our farm , encouraging me and comforting my family . |
| 6 | The best programs allow the teacher to gain basic skills in using them and to hand them over to pupils after a short introduction . |
| 7 | were n't they , and erm supporting helping them and supporting them were n't they ? |
| 8 | It is always prudent to wash any foodstuffs before cooking or eating them and to wash your hands to reduce the amount of residues adhering to the skin . |
| 9 | ‘ I am not great railway enthusiast , but derive immense pleasure out of building them and running them , ’ he added . |
| 10 | A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner . |
| 11 | The soft , sweet sounds of the piano dropped round me , intoxicating me and compelling me to follow as I drifted towards the sound like a child of Hamelin . |
| 12 | Blake could n't say whether the creatures were pursuing them or had their own sinister reason for haunting this part of London . |
| 13 | Whenever I turn to try and get out of the cage , someone is offended or upset , says I 'm defying them or humiliating them . |
| 14 | He said I I 'll I 'll I 'll never really know and I think now what was he was he praising me or blaming me , he said , And I 'll never know . |
| 15 | It is impossible to analyse from this source the rate of entry in the last few years , because brand-new firms are reluctant to advertise their newness in case this dissuades clients and candidates from trusting them and taking them seriously . |
| 16 | By memorizing short pauses and by relishing them and using them frequently in your do-it-yourself SAS training , your speech reading will improve and your aural memory-bank will be enriched . |
| 17 | Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them . |
| 18 | Poems order experience and share it ; understanding them and writing them involves an act of creativity , and in both activities there is a kind of joy involved when the order of words , or insight into the effect of that order , corresponds with the way things are . |
| 19 | This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they . |
| 20 | Ivory tower allergists discount reactions to food unless an IgE mechanism has been proved , but denying them or attributing them to hypochondriasis is a sign not of scientific superiority but of a head in the sand mentality . |
| 21 | There was a fine line to walk between protecting him and urging him to self-reliance . |
| 22 | I 'm going upstairs and I 'm stripping her and taking her into the bath with me . ’ |
| 23 | I wrote back thanking him and assuring him that there were no hard feelings on my part , but my decision is unchanged . |
| 24 | I can not express what a privilege it has been transcribing it and entering your very mind and spirit in the throes of creativity , as it were . |
| 25 | The record company folk who have been talking Gulf and eating her sarnies leave and Susanna draws up a chair , sits on it cross-legged and starts to play with her hair , twisting it and knitting it . |
| 26 | The Founders were to be the guardians of the purity of the paper , protecting it and keeping it in touch with the grass roots which they represented . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's a good guess , ’ she said , neither denying it nor confirming it . |
| 28 | Terror gripped her so completely that she was incapable of opening it and let it fall to the floor where — she very nearly followed it in a faint . |
| 29 | opening it and shutting it , |
| 30 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |