Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What differences follow , for example , from the young Elvis Presley starting out from printed song-copies but slowly transforming them in lengthy sessions in Sam Phillips 's Sun studio , as against Lennon and McCartney taking mostly orally worked-out ideas to George Martin who then might transform them through literate methods — for instance , the addition of written parts ? |
| 2 | Exporters can raise prices in sterling terms ( so maintaining them in foreign currency terms ) without losing competitiveness . |
| 3 | These agents are toxic when given systemically , and so producing them at high concentration within the tumour is an attractive goal . |
| 4 | They ‘ trapline ’ , moving directly from one food site to the next , apparently remembering them from previous days , and are fast fliers , visiting plants producing ( few ) flowers over long periods . |
| 5 | John-Paul Ziller is variously a drugs dealer , magician and con man , personifying — like Rinehart in Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man — the flux of narrative stances ; Plucky Purcell , as his name suggests , represents the narrator of adventures and Marx Marvellous ( ‘ your host and narrator ’ ) embodies Robbins 's role as narrative compère , constantly leading us into new episodes with an appropriate verbal flourish . |
| 6 | Time and effort must be taken to break its dependency on the other dog and increase its attachment towards the owner ; short walks without the other dog , short periods of being left at home by itself , perhaps feeding them in separate areas . |
| 7 | Marshall 's hands had once made music — now they could n't — so he was perhaps punishing them with hard labour in a sort of brutal compensation . |
| 8 | Again from Australia had come Sister May Kenny with her method of nursing the child incessantly in the arms , massaging the withering limbs and gently lowering them into warm water . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I 've spent the last day or so watching you with other people , and frankly , Fran , it 's obvious to anyone that when you 're with me you act far differently . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was cooking this food , not bringing it in pre-frozen packs . |
| 12 | ( When you 're not eating it with other meats , try melon , fresh figs or avocado . ) |
| 13 | ‘ They grudgingly agreed , but they are not producing them for general sale . |
| 14 | ‘ Just keeping him in good condition for you , darling . ’ |
| 15 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |
| 16 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 17 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 18 | They 're certainly not doing it with other men ( only 3.6 per cent claim to have had homosexual intercourse ) , so can we presume yet again that men just like to say they do it more often . |
| 19 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 20 | The apothecary 's rose grows at Provins in France and has the property that it keeps its perfume even when the petals have been dried and powdered , thus making it of great use to add to medicinal compounds and ensuring that they are pleasant and soothing . |
| 21 | Well I 'm just putting them on clean dishes because I think these dishes |
| 22 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 23 | He was forever denouncing me during Parliamentary Questions in the most lurid terms but the denunciations were invariably so protracted that even his own side lost interest . |
| 24 | They were still watching him with fox-like concentration . |
| 25 | He paused , still watching her with impersonal interest . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ I think it is marvellous he kept on supporting us from inside prison . ’ |
| 27 | The best known use of zeolites has been as dehydrating agents — the so called molecular sieves — which can effectively filter out and hold on to water molecules thereby removing them from other liquids . |
| 28 | Get the feeling of panelling by sticking rectangles of contrasting tape on a plain painted wall ; or by drawing rectangular stripes in panel shapes and carefully painting them in contrasting colours . |
| 29 | This illusion was achieved by slightly blinding them with blue lamps facing them and lowering dummy bodies from the flies . |
| 30 | Soon afterwards he accompanied Charles Howard , Earl of Carlisle [ q.v. ] , as envoy to Alexis , but was not admitted to the negotiations , the Russians probably suspecting him of changing masters . |