Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] and [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merely looking at one 's watch and giving the right time is usually enough to prevent the completely accurate recall of an unfamiliar telephone number . |
| 2 | He came wearing his purple confessor 's stole and carrying the little box of sacred oils for the anointing of the dying . |
| 3 | This training , quite different from the acquisition of knowledge , skill and technique which makes up education today , will be directed towards the understanding of one 's self and releasing the unique potential of each person . |
| 4 | One of them moved slowly in , deftly reaching into Manville 's jacket and removing the shoulder-holstered automatic that the detectors had pinpointed . |
| 5 | The Department of Energy will be wound up and two new Cabinet posts created : a minister responsible for the Citizen 's Charter and reforming the civil service , and a new department responsible for broadcasting , the arts , sport , the national heritage and the film industry . |
| 6 | Two new Cabinet posts will be created — a minister with responsibility for the Citizen 's Charter and reforming the Civil Service ; and a new department responsible for broadcasting , arts , sport , the film industry and the national heritage . |
| 7 | But there is little point , for instance , in turning on an artistic , enlightened medieval king because he also enjoyed slaughtering hundreds of deer in a day 's hunt and daubing the fresh blood on his own face and those of his friends . |
| 8 | Eventually , submitting to James Coleridge 's persuasion and recognizing the peculiar circumstances , the authorities decided on another solution , though one of which the Coleridge family evidently remained unaware . |
| 9 | Research is simply a matter of defining one 's problem and selecting the appropriate tool or method for that problem . |