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 Just keeping him in good condition for you , darling . ’
12 I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Well I 'm just putting them on clean dishes because I think these dishes
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 They were still watching him with fox-like concentration .
19 He paused , still watching her with impersonal interest .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 This illusion was achieved by slightly blinding them with blue lamps facing them and lowering dummy bodies from the flies .
23 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 .
24 When Sara awoke and looked outside at the deep cloudless blue sky , she guessed that her hostess was also scanning it with equal pleasure .
25 We look at some ways of coping with it , and also recognising it in other people , because if you 've got people working for you , and they 're stressed , and they have time off work , you 've got to carry things on , have n't you ?
26 However , at the time of going to press , Berthoud , Chafer and Degania are also offering them as original equipment on their sprayers .
27 erm Mainly analyzing it with meterological data , you find that after the dry spell , when the rain does finally arrive it 's more acid , and it 's affected in .
28 The system can understand spoken utterances by simultaneously analysing them at different levels ( including syntax and semantics ) , and then combining the results .
29 It was normal practice to live at home with one 's parents until marriage ( and women who did not marry usually continued to live with parents , often supporting them into old age , see below ) .
30 Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’
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