Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't think you can barge in here harassing me like this , ’ she snapped , ‘ shooting questions at me as if you were taking part in a firing squad . ’ |
| 2 | Cos th without actually forcing it at all . |
| 3 | He played seven events and earned £8,600 , in prize-money , at least providing him with enough money to live on . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The difficult-to-pronounce-sounds are probably best first learned by thoroughly drilling them in all positions in non-differential drills ( substitution drills ) as in 6.5 . |
| 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 | ( This is obviously correct ; one does not make something a business secret by simply describing it as such . |
| 9 | The only method hitherto available for the quantification of bowel activity on abdominal scans has been the grading of the bowel uptake by visually comparing it with that of the spleen , liver , and bone marrow . |
| 10 | This project will also attempt to establish just how information from the two modalities converge by systematically manipulating them in such a way as to disrupt the normal manner of combining them . |