Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know often they do n't stay through the whole meeting but if they 've got specific points to bring up you know th you know it 's flexible really you know sort of depending on what 's going on really . |
| 2 | I also know he was never tired of gazing at me as I lay on my front . |
| 3 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 4 | Tait and his advertising agents hit on an idea for generic advertising , of filling the skies above New York with a message done by ‘ skytyping ’ — a development of skywriting in which five light aircraft , working on computer synchronicity , puff dots into the sky to form letters sixty feet high . |
| 5 | Napoleon 's Number One Fan , who during Abel Gance 's film was accused by the man in the next seat of masturbating underneath his hat and splashing his wife , but who stoutly defended himself by saying that the unfortunate staining would never have happened if she had n't nudged him and thus dislodged the titfer from his lap . |
| 6 | The Labour party showed little sign of recovering from its election defeat in 1979 . |
| 7 | Liverpool give John Barnes only an even-money chance of recovering from his hamstring strain . |
| 8 | But there is no word that Saddam Hussein is ready to return to his own people the $10 billion he is accused of looting from them by skimming Iraq 's oil revenue for the past ten years and taking kickbacks from foreign contractors . |
| 9 | In addition to these outbursts of weeping with which she made up arrears and which followed close upon the fatal termination of the illness , the lady celebrated annual festivals of remembrance at the period of the various catastrophes . |
| 10 | Some , who may be kinder , will find a way of weeping in their wives ' arms without explaining the cause . |
| 11 | TAKING as her text one of Paul Cezanne 's lesser-known dictums that ‘ the same subject , from a different angle , can be the subject for study of the most powerful interest ’ , Eleanor Bowen stretches the art of drawing to its limit . |
| 12 | By seeing yourself open as a chalice , a channel of cosmic energies , you reduce the risk of becoming drained as a result of drawing on your own energy reserves . |
| 13 | At high concentrations , the blood becomes a sort of chemical sponge , capable of drawing in whatever meagre supplies of water exist , even when the toad 's body already contains much more water than the surrounding area of soil . |
| 14 | Jane mentioned a typewriter , paper , carbon — when asked for anything , Jim had a habit of drawing in his breath even more sharply , as if he 'd been wounded . |
| 15 | He had also paid a substantial price for the pleasure , not merely of looking at the corpse of the idea of a centre party , but of stamping upon it several times over . |
| 16 | Now a boy becomes instantly weaned because he would not dream of sucking at his mother 's breast now that he is a man . |
| 17 | The trainers are part of my ritual resolution to get fit ( instead of boozing with my mates each evening ) , and the paperwork usually includes at least one final demand from an irate publisher or editor . |
| 18 | Cancer was diagnosed only eight months earlier , and Madeleine held a strong conviction she could find a way of helping in her own healing . |
| 19 | The parabola has the important property of reflecting to its focus all lines parallel to the x axis . |
| 20 | All that summer I was ill — they said they thought it was glandular fever — but I know it was my way of reacting to my father 's death . |
| 21 | Women , because of the nurturing and caring roles allocated to them , the responsibility they are given for the well-being and happiness of children and of men , are much more likely to be taught the value of submitting to one 's fate and considering the needs of others before their own . |
| 22 | This , then , was his way of seeing to it that Travis knew that she was out of bounds . |
| 23 | A preliminary study has compared social work response and service delivery across organizational types , with the objective of seeing in what ways these differed , and whether any differences could plausibly be related to the factors ( for example of knowledge and skill ) said to distinguish in broad terms the organizational types . |
| 24 | the dog has been worrying livestock , has not left the vicinity and is not under the control of any person and there are no practicable means of ascertaining to whom it belongs . |
| 25 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 26 | The dilemma is that if they are enlarged the danger of stepping through them is increased . |
| 27 | She followed him to the lift , terrified of stepping into it with him and finding it empty ! |
| 28 | LeCoz noted that ‘ museums everywhere , even one as well known as the Orsay , are always in need of financing for their projects . ’ |
| 29 | Kapre Software Inc , Boulder , Colorado has won $3.5m second round of financing for its object application software and C++ development environment from Hill , Carman , Kirby and Washing , Boulder , Institutional Venture Partners , Mohr and Davidow Ventures , and Stanford University . |
| 30 | With some half-formed idea of remonstrating with him all over again , she began hesitantly . |