Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was never aware of consciously emulating anyone in particular at any point in my career . ’ |
| 2 | But all kinds of labour ‘ had to be capable of readily adapting themselves to new conditions , and not become petrified in a rigid and inflexible mould ’ . |
| 3 | But in largely confining itself to observable phenomena . |
| 4 | She was not a greatly intelligent woman , being one of those persons who always seem busy without ever achieving anything in particular , and it never failed to amaze her that her son could remember what he read when she had difficulty remembering the day of the week . |
| 5 | By looking for faults in his behaviour , by constantly diminishing him with little criticisms — he neglected their boy ( at school in Randung ) , he was cold , he was selfish , he was an inadequate and clumsy lover ( did she dare ) , he never listened to other people , he had no sense of direction because he was always getting her lost in foreign capitals — she made him feel a kind of leper , different from and inferior to the run of men . |
| 6 | This illusion was achieved by slightly blinding them with blue lamps facing them and lowering dummy bodies from the flies . |
| 7 | The system can understand spoken utterances by simultaneously analysing them at different levels ( including syntax and semantics ) , and then combining the results . |
| 8 | Simultaneously he proceeded to reinforce his own direct links with his electors by undertaking tours of the provinces and by publicly associating himself with progressive measures . |