Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [subord] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her chin was distinctly pointed , her mouth clenched as if withholding a cry , Vincent saw the pallor of her face , its sad lines , her eyes inward-looking , and felt that his soul was in correspondence with her . |
| 2 | Case of the Negro Sommersett seventeen seventy-two , ’ Miss Phoebe murmured as if repeating a lesson . |
| 3 | A non-contributory pension is the benefit most prospective employees look for when considering a job offer , according to a KPMG survey . |
| 4 | my personal view was that we , we should have some form of , two things , one is communicating the realities of the situation , it 's a fairly new market , there was a lot of competitors in the market , coming into the market , there was a lot of confusion in the market there was a lot of confusion in the market as to exactly what it was that customer could buy , there was also a lot of confusion of as to , cos there are different types of customer , and over sixty five , there are about seven different categories , there was a need for someone and I believe it should therefore have been the market leader at that time to if you want to establish principals , establish what they , this was in the market and establish what the elderly would be , would , should look for when purchasing a retirement apartment . |
| 5 | Dealing with wireless every day , Joe rarely listened when off duty to accounts of small successes put over in the announcer 's authoritative tone and the defeats intoned as if reporting a death : which it was , though not a single death , such as when Tobruk had fallen in June and Mussolini went into Libya . |
| 6 | The following is a checklist of points to look for when choosing a coursebook . |
| 7 | Things to look for when choosing a putter are good balance , length of shaft to fit your height and weight of putter ( recommended between 15 to 18 ounces ) . |
| 8 | Such planets can not really be thought of as having a surface , in the sense that the Earth has ; rather , we should regard them as being ‘ all atmosphere ’ . |
| 9 | Informally , the idea is that every path in a graph which passes through a node n can be thought of as having a score f(n) consisting of the cost from the start of the search to that node g(n) , and the cost from the node to the terminal state , h(n) . |
| 10 | JEWKES leading PAMELA , now with her hands bound as if taking a walk on the estate . |
| 11 | In the first group of lead actions the position is as follows : ( 1 ) there are a very large number of major points of law which have to be decided on the manifold issues which arise under the various heads of restitutionary claim ; ( 2 ) there appear to be no or no significant disputes on the common issues of fact affecting the swaps cases generally , and indeed those matters covered by an agreed general statement of fact which has been placed before the court ; ( 3 ) there are discrete factual issues arising in individual cases , eg. , on change of position , since individual local authorities dealt with the money received under swap transactions in several different ways , which are variously relied upon as furnishing a change of position defence . |
| 12 | Wilcox grunted as if acknowledging a debating point , from which she deduced that he was a bully and needed to be stood up to . |
| 13 | ‘ Hey , Gringo , I can see you , ’ Miguelito sang as if teasing a child in a game of hide and seek . |
| 14 | He spoke as if playing a board-game . |