Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bornstein ( 1979 ) , however , points out the problems of using fingerspelling which is meant to follow spoken language exactly . |
| 2 | I think you 're sort of drawing drawing their attention to the public concern over that sort of phrase . |
| 3 | What a guide IF YOU are thinking of a driving holiday in France this year it is well worth being able to parle a little motoring Francaise and the AA , along the National Tyre and Autocare have come up with ways of helping to make yourself understood . |
| 4 | ‘ If you can make me understand that , I stand a better chance of helping to get you the money to find it , ’ Waldegrave said . |
| 5 | Outside , running the water into the misshapen saucepan , Sally-Anne found the stench indescribable , so much so that she began a desperate burst of coughing to prevent herself from vomiting . |
| 6 | Although , despite her principles and her ingrained reluctance to compromise , she could not suppress a pang of gratitude even now — as she dished up her broth and herb dumplings for the candidate — that an attack of the low fever , caught as usual from terrible , tormented Mrs Rattrie who , this time , had died of it , had kept Luke in bed during that wild week last summer when the plugs had been drawn from Braithwaite 's boiler and all Luke 's brave young friends who had got into the habit of gathering to smoke their pipes and set the world to rights of an evening in her hen-run , had gone marching off to join their " brothers ' from across the Pennines . |
| 7 | One problem with these vegetables is that they need a lot of cooking to make them digestible and palatable . |
| 8 | Because the , you 've no means of , of proving have you that I mean y er the best system would never be able to discover that er your figure of fifteen thousand pounds cash taken selling ice cream was genuine . |
| 9 | ‘ The workers in our group already have lots of knitting to do what I need now is another group of volunteers , ’ Moira said . |
| 10 | If your machine does n't knit double jacquard , the garment is just as nice made from two layers of Fair Isle in fine wool , bound together by strips of knitting to make it totally reversible with different colours each side if you wish . |
| 11 | The German government has finally abandoned hopes of bringing onstream its prototype Kalkar fast-breeder reactor , in the wake of sustained opposition from environmentalists , farmers and the Social Democrat administration in North-Rhine Westphalia . |
| 12 | These indications of the importance of small firm production and the extent of subcontracting make it vital to recognize the place of a differentiated structure of production in assessing the causes of Japan 's rapid economic growth . |
| 13 | Instead of endeavouring to penetrate its ten-foot thick walls , the rebels invited Grenville out to parley . |
| 14 | In recent years it has become increasingly common for businesses buying and selling goods and services to seek to rely on standard terms of trading to govern their contracts . |
| 15 | The boy 's way of appearing to guide his girl just in front of him in all travelling steps affects the carrige of both himself and his partner . |
| 16 | His sister Elizabeth had preferred not to attend the ceremony for fear of appearing to condone his alliance with one of her housemaids , and the Bradfords ' staff had been equally disapproving of one of their number presuming to move up into such illustrious circles . |
| 17 | Use this method of checking to test your answers to the last exercise . |
| 18 | And in case you are thinking of reneging let me tell you that we 're gon na watch you . |
| 19 | It 's easy to be aware that things need sorting out but to be too preoccupied with the routine of living to do anything about it . |
| 20 | Have , have you had a problem of remembering to turn it on , remembering the batteries |
| 21 | Back came the ‘ face furniture ’ which required no solutions except that of remembering to wear them . |
| 22 | Back came the ‘ face-furniture ’ which required no solutions except that of remembering to wear them . |
| 23 | Students of chanting practised their art on the beach , with one ear attuned to the waves . |
| 24 | ‘ I prefer it if men find ways of dressing to enhance their personality rather than using clothes to make up for the lack of one . |
| 25 | Certain groups managed to extend the uses of writing to subserve their political and ideological interest in centralisation through the construction of what Clanchy calls a literate mentality' . |
| 26 | The pope acknowledges Oswiu 's conversion to orthodoxy and the Roman Easter , thanks him for the gifts he has sent but grieves that the bearer of these gifts had died in Rome , and regrets that he has not been able at the time of writing to find someone suitable to send as Wigheard 's replacement . |
| 27 | Nelson Mandela had consistently defended his wife against rumours and allegations , accusing the government of seeking to besmirch her name and reputation . |
| 28 | Congress ( I ) leaders accused the government of vindictiveness and of seeking to install its own supporters as governors , and further maintained that the actions also went against the spirit of the Constitution and against the recommendations of the Sarkaria Committee which had suggested that governors should be persons not too closely or recently involved in party politics and that governors from one political party should not be imposed on a state governed by an opposing party . |
| 29 | Thus from a very narrow and restricted expression there has been drawn a very wide and unrestricted principle , all based on the assumed purpose of Parliament and the perceived absurdity of seeking to effect it by the language in which Parliament actually chose to express it . |
| 30 | Sometimes human intervention is not a question of changing the environment , but of seeking to prevent its change . |