Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both instances a worker , acting in his own self-interest , may choose to retain his benefits ( by refusing extra pay or a job ) , thereby perpetuating his dependency on the Welfare State . |
| 2 | They were everywhere , slowly inching their way across the desert . |
| 3 | Since they evidently have a rate control " knob " on their " stroboscope " , why do n't they turn it permanently to maximum , thereby keeping their perception of the world at its most acute , all the time , to meet any emergency ? |
| 4 | Jonathan Dimbleby tried interruption , thereby revealing his unfamiliarity with the story of Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby . |
| 5 | Israel had announced in October that it would attend the Ottawa talks , thereby ending its boycott of the multilateral refugee negotiations [ see p. 39167 for Israeli participation in multilateral regional economic co-operation talks in Paris in late October ] . |
| 6 | They drank coffee and played cards throughout the long haul to London , only interrupting their concentration for the Sheikh 's frequent visits aft to watch over his son . |
| 7 | He was single-mindedly applying his mind to the task and it was likely that he would forget the time . |
| 8 | Hilda read extracts from letters received from Dr. Monnica Stewart , Margot Hawker , physiotherapist and June Sutherland , occupational therapist all expressing their enjoyment of the day and appreciation of our work . |
| 9 | Hilda read extracts from letters received from Dr. Monnica Stewart , Margot Hawker , physiotherapist and June Sutherland , occupational therapist all expressing their enjoyment of the day and appreciation of our work . |
| 10 | ‘ Aaah , ’ Lucinda said again , impatiently sinking her knife into the pie crust , watching fascinated as hot brown gravy oozed out . |
| 11 | Sir Lawrence Byford , the president of Yorkshire CCC , is personally advocating their inclusion in the coaching . |
| 12 | It takes time and effort for her to do this : constantly tapping her nose on the typewriter is exhausting , but then so is making her noises understood . |
| 13 | perhaps erm perhaps they 're only parking their caravan on the . |
| 14 | He 'd schooled himself to ruthlessness , single-mindedly forcing his way through the jungle , hacking at anything in his path . |
| 15 | I 'd never known him believe in anything before , so it was an amazing novelty to find him literally staking his life on the principle of absolute patriarchal authority . |
| 16 | The case , in which a fellow patient has denied manslaughter , is one of a number which prompted ministers to commission a study by top psychiatrist Dr William Boyd Boy hurt : Michael Brown , 11 , of East Street , Crookhall , Consett , County Durham , was taken to Shotley Bridge Hospital with a fractured shoulder and broken right leg after apparently riding his scooter into the path of a Vauxhall Astra car in nearby Second Street . |
| 17 | 1991 , 27 , 701 ) , is really only displaying his ignorance of the commonly accepted textbooks of inorganic chemistry . |
| 18 | Often in the past he had tried to keep her in bed in the morning , but always she had pushed off his sleep-drugged advances with a brusque reminder that she had work to do , stubbornly shutting her mind to the tenderness of a few hours before . |
| 19 | ( More traditional pedagogy went for appreciation rather than analysis , urging the reader to a direct experience of the poem , perhaps inhaling its beauty like the scent of a flower ; but the underlying process was similar . ) |
| 20 | Lothar remained in central Francia , perhaps tightening his grip on the region east of the Charbonnière . |
| 21 | Mr Wilson is apparently taking his case to the Court of Appeal . |
| 22 | Hirtle ( 1975 : 124 ) makes this successivity explicit when he diagrams his analysis of modal will in At one o'clock they will eat lunch : The role of will is described as that of " keeping the infinitive beyond the stretch of time containing the present of actual consciousness " and so situating its event in the future . |
| 23 | For the exasperated livestock farmer , with fears for the future of his pig unit or broiler house , for the fruit-grower alarmed by the possibility of a poisonous spray inadvertently finding its way into the metabolism of a casual passerby , and for the cereals farmer who does not take kindly to his best malting barley being trampled down in order to create an impromptu picnic site , the simplest solution is to go in for siege tactics . |
| 24 | Kirov dropped to his knees , gingerly placing his ear over the man 's heart . |
| 25 | After gingerly retrieving his whistle from the offending item and giving it a quick clean-up , McNally was immediately called on to blow it when he awarded a drop goal after a free-kick . |
| 26 | Forster settled down , only putting his eye to the slit every half minute , not continually as he had started to do . |
| 27 | His friend Okawi had signalled to the other canoes by gently shaking his thumb in the direction of the sleeping animals . |
| 28 | Right , but the way you 're describing the process it seems I get an image of someone gently putting his hand on the collar |
| 29 | Task 40 demonstrates that we do not approach difficult discourse in our own language by starting at the bottom levels and then patiently working our way towards the top and a general understanding of what is being said . |
| 30 | VICHY Vive l'histoire Is France finally accepting its part in the holocaust , asks Lucy Wadham |