Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success . |
| 2 | Having stressed the problems , it is perhaps worth taking a look at the advantages . |
| 3 | Alejandro was all for putting a bullet through this she-devil 's head and dispatching her to the nearest abattoir . |
| 4 | If it 's a ten p bit of influence , it 's only worth spending a couple of pence on it . |
| 5 | ‘ Look , mon cher , ’ I told him when he stormed below after having a row with Igor . |
| 6 | A psychiatrist was called in and Max was given the treatment he needed , but only after serving a month in Brixton . |
| 7 | Especially in building a marriage of two different people with two different ways of looking at life . |
| 8 | Always read manufacturer 's instructions carefully — especially before using a depilator for the first time |
| 9 | He succeeds brilliantly in finding a style of speech which is neither archaic nor too modern ( apart from the odd anachronism like cash-flow ) but belongs to a timeless tradition of broad , popular comedy , like Ayckbourn with clogs on . |
| 10 | The decision , which Western commentators described as " a complicated compromise judgement " , ruled that Yeltsin had acted constitutionally in imposing a ban on the " leading and organizational structures " of the CPSU and the RCP ( insofar as it was a component of the CPSU ) , but not in banning " primary organizations … formed on a territorial basis [ the local party branches ] " since these organizations … did not replace the state structures " . |
| 11 | Well , if I erm said to one of my students something about that was a very good essay you wrote , in fact I 'd like to discuss it a little bit more down at the pub and down at the pub I put my hand on his knee perhaps in making a point about how good his essay was . |
| 12 | Three of these in particular — Rastafarianism , variously defined as a " religion " or as a " movement " ( Gilroy 1987 : 187 ) , reggae , and toasting — can be seen as significant not only in providing a centre of attraction towards Creole-based culture for black ( and some white ) youth at various times , but also in providing access to and models of Jamaican Creole through social networks and relatively high media profiles . |
| 13 | He side-stepped Gary Fleming brilliantly before tucking a shot past keeper Lee Butler . |
| 14 | However , he did so without conceding a share in his legitimacy to the Resistance inside France and without confining himself to the role of the Resistance 's leader . |
| 15 | Begged a bit of dosh together by laying a hat on the floor down the underground and sucking a harmonica . |
| 16 | Once the European law is made , therefore , Parliament 's function is confined to reacting to a fait accompli , perhaps by chastising a Minister for acquiescing in its making , perhaps by pressing him to seek change . |
| 17 | Help can be summoned from ACET or other services merely by pressing a button on a pendant worn around the neck . |
| 18 | From the viewpoint of this being and objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind , because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well-known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorn effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output , simply because they know that you 're taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 19 | From the viewpoint of this being an objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorne effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output simply because they know that you are taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 20 | One lamentable practice which Crews rightly scorns is the increasingly revived trick or medieval rhetoric in which one attempts to substantiate one 's theoretical argument not by anything so vulgarly empirical as a fact or a text but merely by invoking a name from the sacred pantheon . |
| 21 | I will do so by asking a series of questions . |
| 22 | Well only by getting a lift to the clinic , yeah , that 's the only way she could get there |
| 23 | Wing specialists do n't even understand wings with full mathematical precision : they can predict how a wing will behave in turbulent conditions , only by examining a model in a wind tunnel or a computer simulation — the sort of thing a biologist might do to understand an animal . |
| 24 | Sometimes the delays can be psycho-social in origin , parents may be understimulating or neglecting the child , but this can be verified only by demonstrating a change in the child 's rate of progress once intervention has occurred . |
| 25 | These theories can account in broad terms for the compositional differences between the Earth and the Moon , but only by making a number of fairly detailed assumptions about the conditions in the PFM in the region where the Earth and the Moon formed . |
| 26 | Pereira , considered a close confidant of the President , was dismissed soon after leading a delegation to southern Senegal for a bipartite meeting on border security [ see also below ] . |
| 27 | Even if you can not reach any gardens or nurseries to see roses in action and have to rely on catalogues and lists , there is a great deal of enjoyment to be derived from weighing up the pros and cons and in the anticipation of the pleasures to come , just like choosing a holiday from the glossy brochures . |
| 28 | It 's very hard to get away with doing a tabloid in the U S. |
| 29 | I am concerned largely with laying a basis for this by first determining the general patterns of language variation and social variation in which changes in progress may then be discovered — in other words I am concerned with the embedding of language variation in society . |
| 30 | Apparently some villain , hot with his own juices , had bought Meg 's body and used her carnally before plunging a knife between her ribs . |