Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [coord] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before she could break away one arm had snaked round her shoulders , pulling her towards him and crushing her face against his chest , then his dark head was obliterating the light , his hot lips seeking hers and to her shame finding them without any difficulty . |
| 2 | Some major city spaces become foci for activity generated not by buildings surrounding them but by their special sense of identity ( good examples are the Piazza San Marco in Venice and indeed the space in front of our own National Gallery ) . |
| 3 | The study of something for its own sake , for the sake of knowing , understanding , grasping it and for nothing else , is an essential characteristic of education , lower or higher , though more obviously of higher education . |
| 4 | The jazz coming from the gramophone was irritating him and in his limbs the uneasiness familiar to smokers of opium was beginning to take hold . |
| 5 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 June 1992 W. appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the High Court had no jurisdiction , or alternatively no jurisdiction should be exercised , to overrule the refusal of a competent minor aged 16 to undergo medical treatment ; ( 2 ) section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 should have been applied ; ( 3 ) the judge had erred in applying observations of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 which were erroneous ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly found that in respect of the Children Act 1989 the minor 's right of refusal was limited to the stage of assessment ; and ( 5 ) the judge had failed to have sufficient regard to the medical evidence against transferring W. , to the advantages of not moving her and to her wishes and his decision was plainly wrong . |
| 6 | Edward had considered banishing him but behind him loomed the spectre of civil war , his son would resist and there were those amongst his barons , especially the younger ones , who would be only too willing to follow his son . |
| 7 | In his book , Operational Review , Ken Impey , former head of internal audit at Reed International , sets out the typical broad headings under which an organisation could classify its different risks : ‘ disastrous ’ ( threatening damage which it could not expect to survive ) , ‘ seriously damaging ’ ( materially weakening it but from which it could expect to recover ) and ‘ unlikely to be material ’ . |
| 8 | He was most likely not even reading the Strand , but sniffing it and with it the atmosphere around him . |
| 9 | The more enduring issues will be concerned with making decisions based upon those statements and with the wider questions of who should be making them and in what way . |
| 10 | Again it is possible to make categorical assertions in English without giving any indication of the evidence that one has for making them or of one 's attitude towards what one is saying : there are languages that can not do this . ’ |
| 11 | In Jacques 's view , without the considerable talents and skills which Hampden Jackson gave unsparingly to the WEA , the District would not have flourished during the war nor in the twenty-five year period of change and innovation following it and in which Hampden Jackson actively participated in partnership with Frank Jacques . |