Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is not chronological but logical ; that is , it will set out how , having invented the six criteria with which I began Chapter 8 , I have tried to meet them using the passive avoidance task . |
| 2 | You 'll never catch me toeing the tiresome MU ‘ Keep Music Live ’ line , but an organic drummer does wonders for my feet . |
| 3 | It would have seemed strange to those who had known Nigel in his early days as a conscientious objector to find him cheering the prime minister through the Falklands War . |
| 4 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 5 | To examine the effects of differentiation on ATF1 protein levels we prepared nuclear extracts from UF9 and differentiated F9 ( DF9 ) cells and compared them using the blotting assay . |
| 6 | There was a practical circus item which asked pupils to weigh given letters and then cost them using the postal charges table ( see Table 4.8 ) . |
| 7 | He had gone into his father 's firm of solicitors where his looks endeared him to wives in divorce cases , although his extreme reluctance to take decisions prevented them obtaining the best results . |
| 8 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 9 | I 've been there and I know , and my heart is sore all over for you , but just catch you feeling the smallest jot of sympathy for me . |
| 10 | He seemed to hesitate , his face partly shadowed as the moon slid silently behind a cloud , leaving the boat in darkness , yet Fran could sense him studying the bruised swell of her lips , the faint tremble coursing through her body . |
| 11 | Meredith swallowed miserably , imagining him comforting the beautiful girl . |
| 12 | But that did not prevent him seeing the possible significance of what she had told him . |
| 13 | Only a desperate battle with the intruder prevented her becoming the seventh victim of the molester who was that at the top of the Melbourne police ‘ most wanted ’ list . |
| 14 | The idea is that when an instruction that is meant for a coprocessor is encountered , the coprocessor handles it leaving the main processor to carry on with other jobs . |
| 15 | Colin is the first to acknowledge that he really needs Mister C. It might sound a little ridiculous , but you could almost see them developing the same kind of double act as Flavor Flav and Chuck D. The prof and the prat . |
| 16 | But I ca n't see her beating the progressive NODFORM WONDER who has won with his head in his chest twice recently . |
| 17 | J. Riley , aged 14 , started his apprenticeship on 31 July 1903 at 45 and the wage-book shows him getting the regular rises described above . |
| 18 | HE WO N'T cut the exchange rate of the over-valued pound because in his daydreams he sees it replacing the German mark as the strongest currency . |
| 19 | He 's not Robinson Crusoe , there are other old newspaper owners so he will say okay the government in Australia is doing what I like , therefore my newspapers or usually most of my newspapers , in fact one or two of them wo n't , will support that government and that government can be totally different one in the United States where in the Washington Post or you know in the New York Post or whatever will go and attack or support because he thinks it 's in the less interest that his commercial interest and the U S because he sees us doing the same thing there . |
| 20 | Why stop me doing the one subject I 'm ace at ? ’ |
| 21 | I do n't er I know you have n't got another one , I remember you emptying the first bag . |
| 22 | This will not stop you catching the smaller fish but it may swing the odds in your favour of selecting one or two of the larger fish . |
| 23 | Hill , chasing his third successive Formula One victory , finished with a best time 1:21.491 , to leave him sharing the front row of the grid with Prost , whose pole was the 32nd of his career . |
| 24 | ‘ Good job we did n't meet it coming the other way , then , ’ said Masklin . |
| 25 | Happened to Harold Macmillan at Torrington in ‘ 58 : swing to the Liberals of 32.8% there , bigger than last week 's at Newbury , but it did n't stop us winning the general election in ‘ 59 . |
| 26 | It was that sense which had brought me to Munding , which had set me hunting the Green Man in the woods . |
| 27 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I was asked to contact you concerning the public conveniences on Gubberford Lane , Scorton near the playing field . |
| 28 | ‘ Mrs Duncan 's family pay well to keep her here but we ca n't have her attacking the other patients . |
| 29 | Feel it toning the outer thighs as well as the lower abdominal muscles . |
| 30 | The tongue helps the process of swallowing by producing a lot of mucus which lubricates the food and prevents it scratching the delicate membranes of the throat . |