Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many ageing people need to understand and accept the changes in their sexuality in order to continue enjoying it to the full . |
| 2 | Subsequently , they carried out the investigation ‘ Maxbox ’ , which involved deciding which of the open boxes that can be made from a 12 cm x 12 cm square of paper by cutting squares from the corners and folding into a lidless cuboid ‘ held the most ’ . |
| 3 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 4 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 5 | One they were going into a pub , and going into the toilets , you know , making a , so he had a a policeman waiting in and the toilets , for them you see , and the o one other , notable occasion he was seen chasing them down the main street in Morley , he got his cape on , you see , |
| 6 | If any other knife identified by its construction as being suitable for banning comes on the market or enters the country in some way , of course we will readily and rapidly consider adding it to the controlled list . |
| 7 | You want to avoid getting them in the wrong order or dropping them , so number them in the top corner , and link them together with a tag . |
| 8 | Analysts were mildly bullish following Storage Technology Corp 's first quarter report — figures , page five — and after an order imbalance on the New York Stock Exchange , the shares were up $1.125 or 4.7% at $25.125 in early trading on Friday : the numbers beat Wall Street expectations , and the company said that operating performance exceeded its expectations , largely as a result of the strengthening in the US enterprise-related business ; Europe remained slow as a result of weak economies , but the mid-range business has begun to benefit from new products ; cash grew to $325m from $118m at the end of 1992 ; it studiously avoided saying anything about the late Iceberg disk array . |
| 9 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 10 | He rebuilt the library and began stocking it with the central texts of secular and religious learning which he had made available at Bec . |
| 11 | The point behind many of these affirmations is to keep reminding oneself of the obvious fact that in a situation where it is clearly impossible to be perfect , to be less than perfect is the best one can be . |
| 12 | Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system . |
| 13 | What remained of the morning was to be spent acclimatising himself to the deaf-aid receiver and learning how to pace himself with the A.S.M. who was going to feed the lines . |
| 14 | If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer . |
| 15 | She started towing him towards the back room . |
| 16 | When a shape recogniser is used that produces alternative candidates the application of word structure involves determining which of the possible character combinations form words . |
| 17 | If you have a problem with a friend , partner , child , colleague or neighbour , try meeting them on the inner planes before discussing the issue with them in person : |
| 18 | Keep positioning yourself in the correct line while turning your own centre-line towards the opponent . |
| 19 | Try putting yourself into the other person 's shoes . |
| 20 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 21 | It leaves manager Lawrie McMenemy with just 16 players but he has so far resisted calling anybody off the standby list . |
| 22 | This effectively means tying ourselves into the rigorous German system of controlling monetary policy and inflation which , in the postwar period , has meant that the Germans have enjoyed consistently lower interest rates that those prevailing in the UK . |
| 23 | When you 're bored bored at other times , let's put it that way if he starts doing any bio-chemistry at all start as , start asking him about the proper names of the systematic names of things and you watch him bristle ! |
| 24 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |
| 25 | If you continue working , say for an additional five years , your pension will then be 45 per cent higher than if you had started taking it at the normal age . |
| 26 | He used to enjoy telling us of the early trials of the Young husband expedition of 1908 which trekked more than halfway across the lonely reaches of Persia and Afghanistan , and over the Himalaya range to Tibet . |
| 27 | These moves will also mean that the probation service has to stop seeing itself as the exclusive provider of services and facilities : it is suggested that other voluntary or private sectors may make better provision . |
| 28 | It was after midnight and the youngsters might well continue enjoying themselves into the early hours . |
| 29 | Leicester 's promising front row of Graham Rowntree , Richard Cockerill and Baron Garforth will relish testing themselves against the experienced Mark Linnett , Olver and Probyn . |
| 30 | Right , right , would you like to sort of start getting yourselves into the other room . |